Change your environment. Get a job working for a really demanding (but intelligent/thoughtful) person. Someone who's sort of Steve Jobs meets the drill instruc

Change your environment. Get a job working for a really demanding (but intelligent/thoughtful) person. Someone who's sort of Steve Jobs meets the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket. Someone who will demand you push yourself and get out of your comfort zone. Even a few months of working for someone like this can have an amazing effect on a person. Kind of like when you see someone come back from a military boot camp. Definitely not the only way, but it really does work.