This post, reminds me of my time at university, I used to study a lot, spent hours and hours in books in order to learn, to present my exams, but, I did not concentrate properly and, no matter how much I studied, I always It was postponed.
I started to program later, to analyze what I was studying and that, little by little, gave me the results that I wanted.
Knowledge is vital, for any activity that we develop, but knowledge without knowing how to apply it, is inert.