Quote Originally Posted by Jager
I disagree completely. The majority of your learning should happen when you are not playing. When you are p[laying you should be focused on the task at hand, which is to make +EV decisions. You should be learning by posting hands, reading posted hands, session reviews, EV type calcs(ie testing exploitative startegy and counter strategy), inducing mistakes, optimal play, blind defense, hand ranges, etc. If you are doing these things while playing, you are doing yourself a disfavor.
I agree that we should be doing a lot of study off the tables (much more than I do), but when you've come up with a new strategy/move/whatever in your study time, you'll still need to be able to focus to apply those concepts, especially at first when "it" is less natural to you.

It takes focus when learning to apply theory (what you figured out studying) to game-time decisions. This may not be true for simple adjustments, but, personally, I suspect most of my leaks are more than that.