1. Change the attitude that boundaries are limited to specific techniques.
2 . realize that you have way more to learn in every aspect of your playing than you could ever learn.
3. If you are watcing TV while you practice, you aren't practicing right. Practicing while your mind is otherwise occupied only serves to increase muscle memory, but does nothing to improve the most important part of playing, your mind.
4. Keep asking players around you for advice and tips (just like you are doing now), reagrdless of whether you are a "better" player than the perosn you are asking.
5. Most importantly, remeber that techniques are tools. Theory are the instruction books that go along with those tools. But at the end of the day Tools and instruction books don't make anything, it is the human factor that builds and creates. Think of it like the builders around here, I can have Jeremy's workshop and all of his notes and instructions, but I have don't have the vision and the creativity I am not going to create anything worth mentioning.
I hope this does not come across as snotty, but I see you making some of the mistakes I have made, and if I can help someone else avoid them and be a better musician, then I am a happy camper. Plus if you learn form my mistakes, you may be able to help me fix them!!!!!