[SatvikBeri]

The point of posts like this is not to provide specific suggestions, it's to shift values and provide validation.

Many of us live in a culture which is decidedly anti-intellectual, e.g. where showing genuine interest in learning will get you derided as "weird" or "nerdy" and lower your overall social status. Humans tend to respond pretty strongly to social incentives, so this causes people to study less than they otherwise would. Conversely, positively reinforcing learning really does cause people to spend more time on it.

pg's "Cities and Ambition" covers this topic pretty well: http://paulgraham.com/cities.html