How to Discern What Serves the Story

I did a thing before the internet existed because I'm that old, or at least existed in the way that people could talk to each other like we're doing right now. Where I read a lot of scripts, and some of the scripts were almost like poetry. And it was such, I wasn't thinking and I have my own form of anxiety. So my mind is always running. But while I was reading this document, I wasn’t thinking about anything else. I was so engrossed grossing the document. If I could do that, I might have a career. It sounds like so much of it is about really asking yourself and being honest about what serves the story