In my case, doing it over 4 decades, parts of trading has become like a nagging wife, more of a frustration at times, you do anything this long, you do it without thinking. What was once exciting like Price Action last couple days, have seen it all few times. I still "discover" something that been in front of me all this time and not written in books, and this is exciting. The actual manual trading never cared to do as it wastes one's time looking at small sticks on a display. Automation has increased my ability for new avenues I didn't have before and free's up much time I never had before. I lost value of money some time back in the 1990's, just a way to keep score, but I do have enthusiasm when I can cut drawdowns a tenth of a point or understand physics a bit better. As far as reading anything about trading, stopped that ten years ago, most are rehashes of previous tones or some delusional fantasies that against market principles to attract the greedy newbies who think they will compete toe to toe with the sharks, but they can't remember to put on clean underwear.