A human being in general and an IITian in particular will be happy in any state as long he has someone to whom he can boast his achievements or talents. then be it some of our professors bragging around in front of their students everything ranging from hunting expeditions to code optimizations :D
or some ppl in my hostel whose sole aim of every word they ever utterred was to prove their hugely enormous talents in everything they've ever done.
as rightly said by somebody :
"All that a man wants in life is someone who hears whatever he has to say"
And with some, in fact most ppl, all they have to say is to brag about themselves.
Why do ppl have to have such gigantic egos. Why do they want to be superior ... why cant they just be good human beings.
What this world needs is not huge talents or achievements, just some good human spirit and compassion will do.