How to Improve Positional Understanding (1727 USCF)?

I have been working a lot on tactics in the last few months, and it has helped me gain hundreds of rating points. However, I believe I have come to the point (1727 USCF) where I need start studying positional chess, not just tactics and endgames. My time is limited, so I am trying to decide what the best way would be.

Option 1: I could work my way through Jeremy Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess  and the workbook that goes with it. This seems like a very logical process. If I fully understand all the imbalances in a position, it should be easy to come up with a logical plan, know when to trade pieces, when to go for an attack, etc.

Option 2: I am currently in possession of the following video series: GM Manifesto. It is a very long video series by GM Damian Lemos that is designed to get the 1500 rated club player to the 2500 level. Most of the videos cover concepts by analyzing games by masters.

Unfortunately, I do not have time to do both. Which approach should I take to improve my positional understanding? Please give me your opinion.

If I'm right reassess your chess is about 600 pages long. If you take a couple of pages like 20-30 everyday you will finish it in about 1 month. I recommend studying the book with a chessboard rather than looking at all the videos. There is a risk with passive learning, you just sit there, you need to do it yourself.

I would read HTRYC first and when you have time, watch the video series, because if you read the book and study it, I believe that your training would be less passive

I also have the HTRYC Workbook, so I don't have to worry too much about passive learning.

"designed to get the 1500 rated club player to the 2500 level"

lol. Do they really say things like that when they advertise these videos? What a scam.

I know, but I think they are actually good videos. I got them from a friend.

Chess advertisements are the worst.  They make Don Lapre look like a legit salesman.

Scam? I have talked to Damien lemos on this.

This does not guarantee anything, this is simply the most important things he learned on the way to 2500, while telling you not only what to do but not to do.

It will rapidly improve you. I have them, and they are what they say... I feel like not to 2500 but to 2200 at least and I can fill the holes on my own. This will give me the positional understanding, assuming I study them seriously and come to rewatch them later after I finish all (after I study something else when I am done, then I come back)

I have emailed Damien Lemos many times.

I know it is not a scam because I got up hundreds in positional understanding from 8 of the comprehencive beginner package (Prequel to the first 1/3 of the grandmaster manifesto).

The GM manifesto is even more advanced, and has more than 3x the videos that I watched - not to mention the puzzles and review material in each video.

Jorn, trust me. The videos are better - at least for now. Silman is great but it can wait. Your decision, but I know you are aiming for master ASAP and I think this is the fastest way.

Keep your affiliate links out of this.

Affiliate?

he already has it.

I make no money from this.

I gave it to him - with permission from the owner - for free.

I am simply saying my experience. And I know Jorn IRL too, I am not just a random stranger

Find good positional players and play them. 

I'd go with Silman's book.

Also, if you haven't already, it's time to start honing an opening repertoire. Best of luck!

Thanks BlunderLots!

Sure, instructional videos can improve your chess, but factly, no player over 20 years old with a 1500 rating will ever be 2500. 

If they claim they can do that, that's pretty ridiculous, since no one can. 

I'm 1833 USCF, I work harder than almost anyone I know at this game, only 17 years old, and it's possible I'm already too old to achieve my life goal of 2200. No way in hell anyone like me will ever make 2500.

We are close enough in age... I am 14 and went from <1100 last january to 1753 now. I think I will continue to go up, though I expect it will get harder.

You can make 2200!

I know someone who never played tournament chess till 11th grade. In 5.5 years he broke 2400.

@logozar the 1100 to 1800 jump is easy (at least for young players). I did it in a year. My listed rating in December 2013 was 1045, and by the end of December 2014 I was rated 1793.

But since then I have made only incremental progress.

How old were you when you broke 2200? That's certainly an important question...Also, why don't you have free membership if are a NM? 

As for your real question, I think it will...it's the only facet of my life in which I have a specific and achievable goal towards which I am working. Don't know what career I will have in the future, barely know anything about what I'm doing except going to college next year and hopefully continuing to play chess. If I could meet myself forty years in the future and ask a future version of me one question, it would be whether or not I make 2200. Dead serious. 

Trust ME, Silman is better.

Give me 2 years.