Can I watch lessons while playing games based on those lessons?

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jeremywhitaker

Basically the title, let's say I play a Scandinavian open dragon variation and I am watching a lesson on chess.com about this variation, could this be considered cheating?

For context, I plan to play 30 minute games (I find them far too long, but great for me to learn.) and when my opponent takes forever to move, I want to be able to watch a lesson on the side. Or even take time analysing another game.

I feel like as long as I am not using a bot or whatever to tell me exactly what move to make, for every move, I should be fine right?

I am a bit new and I been stuck in 600 elo. I won't lie, I haven't tried playing this game seriously until now because I honestly enjoyed just playing the game as a newbie but I don't fully understand the anti-cheating aspects and the last thing I want is to have my account banned. I am hugely against cheating so if there is even a chance chess.com will be against this, I won't do it.