I guess its the Indian schooling system, with which i mean those over-packed classes thru which i still used to manage to take out my piece of share and those vast courses which wud help me to learn how to manage my time in betw my sports ,other activities and acads and the teachers who expected a good score out of every single student etc etc..,which has helped me and my classmates to becum different ppl than we wud have if we had a "slow schooling". Harsh and tough conditions, even in childhood, donot go waste. It is highly probable,and it does happens, tht our children do reflect these in theier lives, someway or the other. They becum better than those other ppl in whose country if u walk into a shop and if thier calculator is broken they apologise to yu and say the shop is closed! Maybe next when u take a class with some foreigner , sit close to him and note the differences! Wish u all the luck. I think it is worth mentioning here tht one of my cousins family who were in aus once thought of shifting to india and they did but went back to aus in one year time and the reason was only one: thier kids found tough and competitive here