Find out the first guy that really really succeeded on this shit.  Probably 1900 or something like that.  Go from there.  Go all the way there and read all the way until you get to you.  And then you'll realize that those people are just you in funny clothes.  Study history until it gets to you.  Go study history everybody that came before you.  Watch & read everything they did.  Now you PRACTICE IT.  Now let's see whether this shit really works.