This might not be for you, but I found http://mindingourway.com/ to be very helpful in terms of finding motivation.
The other main thing I’d target would be to spend time around people who make you feel excited about stuff. Don’t try to do it alone.
Reading through these notes I was alarmed by how much they misrepresented what Sam Altman said. I feel bad for the guy that he came on and so thoughtfully answered a ton of questions and then it gets posted online as “Sam Altman claims _____!”
An example:
A question was asked about how far out he thought we were from being able to pass the Turing Test. Sam thought that this was technically feasible in the near term but would take a lot of effort that was better spent elsewhere, so they were quite unlikely to work on it. So “GPT-5 might be able to pass the Turing test.” is technically true because “might” makes the whole sentence almost meaningless, but to the extent that it does have meaning, that meaning is giving you directionally false information.
I didn’t take notes, and I don’t want to try to correct the record from memory and plausibly make things worse. But just, take these all with a huge grain of salt. There’s a lot where these notes say “X” but what I remember him saying was along the lines of “that’s a good question, it’s tricky, I’m currently leaning towards X over Y”. And some things that are flat wrong.