# Additional Reading [Five Decades Of Personal Stock Market Passages, Tools, Lessons And Stories: Part 1](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2022/08/five-decades-of-personal-stock-584.html)\ Successful investing calls for much the same prerequisites as those required to become a professional athlete. Fortunately, we investors have a much longer shelf life than pro athletes [Five Decades Of Personal Stock Market Passages, Tools, Lessons And Stories: Part 2](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2022/09/five-decades-of-personal-stock-935.html)\ To start, I want to make two points. Investing successfully requires that you remain engaged and motivated. Just because you choose to ignore the markets, the markets won't reciprocate and ignore you. [Five Decades Of Personal Stock Market Passages, Tools, Lessons And Stories: Part 3](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2022/09/five-decades-of-personal-stock-558.html)\ When I began investing full-time, my methodology's foundation was based on William O'Neil's CANSLIM® approach. It's a deeply researched and proven strategy. [Ten Timeless Tenets of Trading: A 2,500 Year Perspective](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2015/05/ten-timeless-tenets-of-trading--a-2500-year-perspective.html)\ For those of you who pooh-pooh the lessons of history, listen up! I myself am guilty of being overly focused on today’s web – obsessed with the latest hot stocks, investment technologies and trading methodologies. [Ten Timeless Tenets of Trading: A 2,500 Year Perspective Part II](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2015/05/ten-timeless-tenets-of-trading--a-2500-year-perspective-part-ii.html)\ Art, history and life can parallel investing. This blog is my continuation from last week’s Part I where I encouraged readers to be open to a sort of borderless-type of thinking.