Bhaute and SSK Ji, thank you for your kind words! Karma Ji thank your for putting a lot of importance to Practice. You are right practice counts! Makalu Ji, thank you very much for participating! You are right for the qualities one has to have for learning and doing research. Environment is not a quality in person. Environment is necessary condition for learning but it is external. The internal qualities of a learner or researcher are, as you said, Discipline and Attentiveness . I have to add one more quality from Nepe Dai, which is Rationality. You can name many other qualities but they can be included within these three. For example: you mentioned willingness to learn, which can be considered a part of Attentiveness.