So...
I've watched, over the past few months, dozens of YouTube videos a day it seems so that may have something to do with my "YouTube burnout" (if it is one) but it seems as though YouTube videos especially teach you nothing, certainly not compared to written content or articles or even books. I have the videos on in the background when I'm doing something. I have tried to put more focus to actually, well, consuming the content or media in a way that's more mindful and where I am edified. Maybe I'm trying too hard, but a lot of what I'm watching seems a bit superfluous or whatever.
All art or content or products have this problem, to a point, I think, but at times, it seems that videos are either there to sell me something (bad, at least in my case, because I like retail therapy) or maybe "hook me" into something (not necessarily bad, perhaps, as it can be pretty innocuous and even fun, depending on what they're motivating you to get into, such as a hobby).
And I have to say:
I'm starting to see this in documentaries to, to a point.
I feel like visual media has this problem a lot.
And yeah, I know it's a "D'oh!" moment for me because, honestly, of course they're a bit sparse on details or info compared to, say, books and written text.
But...
I feel like I'm not getting stuff out of it? Like, I ask: "What are they hiding? What are they not showing?"
Am I just paranoid? It's one thing to contemplate this sometimes, but every time I watch a video now?
Maybe I am just burnt out on YouTube LMAO!!
(I will say that one thing I miss are videos that are 2 to 5 to 10 to maybe 20 or 30 minutes long instead of these LONG videos that seem, erm, "useless," from my point of view.)
You may want to consider a different treatment for depression.
People have different levels of proficiency at learning from different mediums. Your particular proficiencies can change over time and with mental state and attitude.
There are times at which I can sit down and write code like it's my primary language. There are times where my mental model makes this absolutely miserable.
I personally find that most of my YouTube learning is best done at 1.5X. I fast forward through the pretense. Hey guys today I'm going to show you how.... Nope.... I don't want fluff. I want straight to the point. I want ingredients and measurements or config files, or software package names. In, done, out.
I personally have more difficulty in learning from text. The input stream is just entirely too slow and the data is lacking in density. I can try to read more quickly which gets me to the data more quickly but doesn't seem to improve my retention.
I basically need a grocery list set of instructions, and it would be useful for somebody to show me what they're doing if it's a physical thing. I also need to follow along and kind of apply what's going on soon after I learn it or it will go to the aether. You can't give me a list of dates and ask me for one of them a week later.