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If you get the chance, read the book Deep Work by Cal Newport. I completely revolutionized the way I go about studying and literally tripled my productivity. It's not that hard of a read, the and the author backs everything up with evidence. Put the amazon link below but you can probably find a free pdf version if you look.
Also, here is the copied summary of the book from the amazon page:
"Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.
In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.
A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. DEEP WORK is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world."
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted-ebook/dp/B00X47ZVXM
Here are some resources that have been incredibly helpful for me. :)
Books:
Videos:
Podcasts:
These two books by Cal Newport, one of the best authors on productivity and discipline.
Deep Work
So Good They Can't Ignore You
And also, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Aaaand, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
For mindset, I also recommend The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson. It'll teach you to choose your battles carefully, although you can find most of that content in his site.
If you do any sort of knowledge work, Deep Work by Cal Newport is a fantastic read.
One of my favorite books is the Cal Newport book on Deep work:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X47ZVXM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
One of the things it talks about is making yourself less accessible. Talk to your manager and your team about the ideas of needing heads down time to get work done, and that their constant “just a quick thing” interruptions are actually leading to a DECREASE in team productivity not an increase. You are the one that will have to set boundaries with your team. The book would give you some good ways to phrase talking points. Good luck!
Also, about your wife.. I’d focus your talking efforts there, since presumably that’s the relationship you care the most about. Get more alone time at work, so that you have more energy to talk to your wife.
I think this is probably a bad idea. Teenagers require more sleep than adults, and your teenage years are very important for your body's development. There isn't enough research on polyphasic sleep especially not in teenagers, to say that this is safe.
> The reason for this is, I want to learn a lot of things, to read more and learn a new language.
If you are in school currently, you are unlikely to have more free time available to you than you do now. Part of getting to adulthood (in my opinion) is accepting that you can't do everything and you need to make tough decisions about what to focus on. I don't know what your existing schedule looks like, but if you haven't already, take a look at how you're spending your time and see if there is anything there you can remove to fit in things that are more important to you? You may enjoy Deep Work by Cal Newport for more on these ideas.
Props to you for taking the leap and I wish you the best of luck.
I completely agree that motivation is overrated, but I have one minor nitpick. In my mind, discipline is almost synonymous with willpower. I know they have their differences, but there is significant overlap. Having discipline is still kind of a white-knuckled approach.
What I suggest is developing a routine. Routines are not subject to motivation and they result in a cumulative daily effect that adds up and compounds over time. In the words of W. H. Auden: "Routine in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition."
 
If you're interested in developing a routine, you have to consume information about strategies from the experts. Here are some of my favorite sources:
There are many others but these are some great places to start.
 
Social accountability is also important as another user mentioned. I recommend telling friends about your site or doing a case study. There are also great tools like stickk that donate your money to a charity or cause you hate if you don't meet your goal.
My advice to you, especially if you're not high in conscientiousness, would be to plan your days, hour by hour. Plan chunks of uninterrupted "deep work" more on that here
Get an app (something like Evernote, or even MS Word) to write about what you read and try to create mental models of what you read while reading and writing about it.
Also try to spend a lot of time on whatever subject/concept you're learning, there is no poorer way to cure an illness then to frequently change the medication.
Also you are who you surround yourself with to a certain extent, so having people to talk to about what you read and bounce ideas around with is immensely important, knowledge is meant to be shared.
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Fair enough, thanks man! and good luck! If you don't mind, I'll share a couple of tips I have learned.
Lastly, I know the worst kind of advice is the unsolicited kind, but I would of killed to know this 7 years ago. Best of luck in this tough and long journey.
Deep Work is a bestselling book. I recommend it if you want to maximize your productivity. Essentially plan 1 hour of so-called "deep work" a day.