Peak season shows you who paid attention in the slow season.

You cannot learn during a rush; you can only perform. Quiet weeks are the only time there is room to practise, ask questions, find out where things live and get the awkward parts smooth, and when pressure arrives it tests what you built rather than teaching you anything new. People who coasted through the slow stretch simply look slower in the busy one. The gap was decided earlier.

Use the next quiet stretch to learn something you will need later. How refunds work, the second station, the manual nobody reads. Then let the busy season find you ready.