Playing vs study?

How do you find out the optimum balance of study and playing chess? What are some indicators you are playing or studying too much? I see articles like thishttps://www.chess.com/article/view/getting-better-in-chess-critical-mistake-to-avoid  that make me feel like I'm not playing enough but then I feel like isn't studying the best way to improve? I heard Botvinnik barely plays and only studies.

Botvinnik has been dead for more than 20 years. It is therefore not surprising that he "barely plays and only studies."

I must say I disagree with the WGM.

The optimal amount of practice vs study is not 80%/20% imho.  And I have read books by GMs who say the same.

Practice is important, doubtless.  But its not just one thing, playing much weaker players is at best of minimal value or may even be negative, you think you are playing well and you are not.

And you want to play players from around your own strength and up.  Not so strong you lose always.  And keep challenging yourself.

Bullet and 5 min chess won't help much either.

Study- maybe 50%.  But look at your games, apply what you learn, learn from your mistakes.

Do some training excercises, then play a few games, then improve rapidly over the course of a few years, this is what I did atleast. Ofcourse you should play someone slightly stronger than you when you play so that you can learn.

939 - 2223 rating in 3 years

When I made a good amount of improvement I was playing at least one long game a week (whether it was OTB or online, rated or unrated) and gave myself 1 to 2 months to spend with a book. Not only to read it, but to re-read and review any interesting parts.

I guess you know you study too much when you keep finding interesting ideas or moves and then never have a chance to try them. So they pile up and you start to forget them. I guess playing too much is when you find yourself doing the same things over and over.

Chess mentor or tactics

More like ~1250/1300 - 2223. Quite impressive, nevertheless.

Two questions:

1. Were you already playing chess before joining chess.com? If yes, for how long.

2. What's your age?

Yeah, I had played home or at school before I joined the site

I will be 17 this year