As a Designer, if you care about making well-designed things, you should surround yourself with well designed things in your life. You'll absorb more than you think. The watch you wear, your furniture, the car you drive, the software you use... everything you passively use throughout the day becomes a reference point, or think of it as a baseline of the standard you hold yourself to in your own work. And no, this doesn't mean only buying expensive things. Well designed doesn't necessarily mean costly, it just means well considered. Live among things made by people who deeply cared, because its contagious (: