Two points. Sklansky and Malmuth (Malmuth mostly IIRC) have covered this point in detail, so I'll be brief.
1) Malmuth stresses that at this stage of a player's development, when he becomes convinced of and confident in his edge, he feels he can now play more hands because of that edge. Malmuth says that's a trap, and a prime reason why some apparently talented players succeed for a while, then drop out of sight. which leads to...
2) More hands literally means more speculative hands which by nature introduces more variance, which can be nasty, can lead to tilt or worse yet, begin to eat away at confience.
So to reiterate another point. If you must play more hands, play implied odds hands and play them WITH POSITION. No need to compound the uncertainty by playing them OOP.
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