PLO, a scientific approach to improvement

Hi, I'm a long term poker recreational player, after more than 150k hands at microstakes I'm breakeven. My background is a scientist and I've worked for over 20 years in healthcare.

I do enjoy poker theory, reading books and watching videos. I have watched hundreds of videos across numerous training sites. I have recently been thinking about how to effectively improve given the wealth of knoweldge out there and found this to be somewhat lacking, even though there are numerous books, videos and articles on the subject, they don't really help, although they have helped me come up with my own theory for improvement. The most inspirational video I found was one from Fedor Holz explaining how most players are really lazy and just enjoy playing and they dont have solid fundamentals and they don't want to spend the time learning them. I agree with this as this is me!

I also looked into the theory of learning a complex tast and there are a couple of theories of note, 1 that you learn everything at once and over time it starts to make sense, and 2 that you need to break it down into smaller specific parts. So number 1 has made me a breakeven player so lets supplement that with breaking things down into smaller chunks, mastering those, in a measurable way and moving on.

So the science part.

I have a good enough sample of hands to show I am breakeven. I have played a mix of stakes and zoom and normal tables. I have done everything wrong and have leaks all over the place, including mental game leaks, tactical leaks etc.

I am going to maximise my learning and ability to implement the learning. I will ensure than I play without distractions, normal tables only (no zoom) and other things to generally maximise my winrate. So high volume grinding is not the goal here but maximum learning and maximum winrate. Having a full time job and other commitments will mean my time is limited but I'll be as organised as possible and form effective habits.

I will learn a new concept in depth every week, I will baseline my understanding with a solver in train mode before I start learning the new concept and then again at the end of the week. If I score less than 90%, I will repeat the week. Concepts will be pre and post flop and I'll go to the high volume spots first. I'd estimate my learning and playing will be for around 2 hours a day, but maybe more if I can get organised.

Tools at my disposal
PLO trainer
PT4
Coaching
Odds Oracle
Subscription to ROI (including PLO from the ground up)
Various books

I'll post at least 2 updates a week, one at the start of the week setting out the concept to be learned and my baseline solver score, then an update at the end of the week, with my learning outcomes and new score. I'll also periodically post graphs and maybe the odd hand to elucidate a specific point.

I'm interested to see how I get on