Sleep will help you move things from short term to long term memory. It is also how your brain will move your learning to the next level.
Knowledge—>comprehension—>application—->synthesis

There have been studies, pre-🤡🌍, that show this relationship.

But as we age the mind becomes much less elastic, and we get a “crystallized intelligence” where it is extremely difficult to abandon old paradigms. That’s why the oldest boomers will never see Bitcoin. They could listen to The Saylor Series for 10 hours and they are never going to get it. But a large number of Millennials got it, and very early.