How much poker study is too much?

[spurgeon]

I enjoy studying and reading about texas hold em. However, I do not want to spend most of my short time on this earth reading about poker. How much poker knowlege is relevant? The more you study, it seems like you start to reach diminishing returns. Sometimes it seems like all the extra study I have done does not seem to matter. Also, a lot of posts on this forum are nonsense. So, you really have to go through a lot on here to get the gold. When did you know that you had "arrived" as a hold em player and could scale back your study of the game?