Perhaps also/instead: These lessons help bring you up to speed with foundational concepts and ways of thinking that took humanity a very long time to discover

Perhaps also/instead: These lessons help bring you up to speed with foundational concepts and ways of thinking that took humanity a very long time to discover and develop. Learning these things while you are young will, at a minimum, help you keep up with others and avoid being scammed, or at best, help you quickly reach the current limit of our understanding and possibly expand our capabilities. You can also think of it like stretching and exercising your brain. You may not need to actually do that work, but it's still good for you and helps make other work easier.