Trick to learning new things:
If you are asking questions and or discussing a subject of learning, it is reinforcing and shaping what you studied previously, it also brings it to the forefront of your memory.

So asking questions, and discussing a subject is a form of continued study.

Once a subject is studied you have to reflect, practice, and leverage your learnings to soak it in and benefit from it.

Some parallels to this come from a book I’m reading currently by Napolean Hill:

“Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge-acquiring period ends when they finish school. The truth is that schooling does little more than point one in the direction of how to acquire practical knowledge.”

“Knowledge will not attract money unless it is organized and intelligently directed through practical plans of action to the definite end of accumulation of money. Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe “knowledge is power”. It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action and directed to a definite end.”

A side note I would like to add, money isn’t the only measuring stick for “success”, it is normally the fruit of it, there are many successful scientist (and other fields) who never had much money, but pushed society forward by leaps and bounds. However the key here is those people had a few things in common:

1. THEY NEVER STOPPED PURSUING KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION.
2. THEY LEVERAGED AND PRACTICED WHAT THEY LEARN CONSISTENTLY.