How do I start Studying chess professionally? Do i maintain a notebook?

And I only play games and puzzles and nothing else.. Do you think watching grandmasters and bots help?I Have a 1500 rating in bullet and about 1200 in blitz and rapid.

Do you mean studying professionally, as in studying is your job?

Or studying like a professional? Studying the way a professional does?

Unfortunately, I don't think that would work either. You still need to climb the mountain before you can adopt the methods they use to stay on top.

At any rate, most people don't think that watching others helps much. You need to be engaged. It is too easy to zone out.

You already have a notebook. Here on chess.com, what you do is recorded. It says you play lots of bullet and don't do lessons. You also don't do many puzzles. A lof of people believe that tactics training and puzzles are useful to improving.

There are many ways to learn here on Chess.com. You can take lessons, read and study articles, study endgames-- what way do you prefer?

I mean I want to learn more and more but I am more of a engaging person as you suggest.. I mostly just prefer to play with people than bots and lessons to improve i have'nt tried anything in lessons much. But by studying professionally I meant like a professional not like a job man i a 16. Should I make notes along the way i learn things and as I take lessons?

AH well.. I dont actually have a notebook . i am just asking that should I make one? And then the bullet matches are cuz i dont actually have that much time to sit and play for long thats why i play bullets slipping time in the day to play.. But now I am starting to get a focus on my rapid and blitz performance and thats why i asked the latter. Same reason why I dont do lessons😅😅😅. But I have been trying to keep up with puzzels..

I do not know if I am qualified enough to teach, but all I can say is "to do it professionally, don't make mistakes." It's hard but try to avoid it as much as you can. if you have a membership, try to go for no blunders. If not, use other websites. Reducing blunders is really a great way to improve. That's my advice. And yes, a notebook could help you, but I'm not sure what you mean by that. Avoiding mistakes, like in the opening or middlegame, keeping your position solid, all advice I can give. Now don't check my profile.

Do you have a friend that could spar and discuss games with you? A coach could give you professional quality structure and goals for your chess study. They can go over your games and show you what you're doing well and what you could do better and all that other good coach stuff. You're in luck with the notebook part of your question. Chess Dot Com keeps good records. Anything done on here can be shared in corroboration with a friend or coach.

By notebook I mean a way to record my progress and noting down all the major blunders that i often do so i dont repeat it along with other notes like lessons. And I dont have a membership😅. Bruh here as a 16 yr old... I barely get to play i could not even think about asking for membership before like 2000 rating .. Anyways.., Thanks for your support

Just, mistakes are the reason we lose. I say that because I want to improve too. Use Lichess for analysis. Record your blunder via putting your games on Lichess and clicking 'Learn from my mistakes'. Maybe, use a notebook for game analysis with a REAL BORARD. It may help you in tournaments. That's the 2 cents I have.

You could try reading a chess book. There are plenty of videos out there on what books to get. Look for middlegsme, endgame, or strategy as opening books are rather useless when you don’t even go 5 moves into a theoretical position 

Maybe read chess books and bring a portable chessboard with you, usually when there's nothing to do and I am away from my computer (Where I usually play chess) I would bring up my bag that consists of chess books and my chessboard so I could play puzzles and analyze games that comes from the chess books I read, usually there's more into learning from a physical book rather than learning from an online platform since there's some sort of feeling of fulfillment and satisfaction when you read from a book and somehow understand what you read from that book, it's a sort of psychology.

But if you really wanna go full-time professional then maybe find a chess master/coach to tutor you.

hi I am new

Ok so any recommendations for a chess book?