Indeed, people don't respect taking responsibility for their actions. It's one thing that wins you trust on all circles of life as people would always want to work with you.
Learning something new and applying it requires discipline since it gets boring to learn as you've said. We always have a passion to at the start of something new, but this fades with time. This is something to fight if we are to get ourselves far with success.
Being a little different in performing a task from other people performing the same task will attract people to what you do, and doing this with energy and discipline will get people pleased with all your endeavours