This cartoon skewers cognitive overload and trainer-centric design. When learners are fleeing through windows and hiding in cupboards, it’s a signal that duration has been mistaken for depth. For L&D experts, it’s a prompt to audit for extraneous load — how much of those 150 slides is actually needed for performance? Consider Mayer’s coherence principle, microlearning, and flipping content to pre-work. The challenge: if you had to deliver the same outcome in 15 minutes, what would you keep?

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