In both Asian and Western nations,
a) boys and girls feel equally competent at math, science, and language arts.
b) boys tend to feel more competent than girls at math, science, and athletics, and girls feel more competent than boys at language arts although boys outperform girls at math and science, they feel less competent about their performance in these subjects.
c) although girls outperform boys at language arts, they feel less competent about their performance in these subjects.

glass wants to live in a world of super heroes and villains. he have lived all his life trying to be responsible for the creating the origin story of a super hero; he schemed and caused many incidents (many of them fatal) hoping that someday someone with superpowers would show up and save the day.

he knew himself very much. he saw himself as a villain of a real-life super hero story. he was aware of his strengths (more than smart enough for being manipulative and scheming) and weaknesses (having fragile bones and having to rely on his mind to succeed).

stable food supply,social structure, government,religion,culture/art,technology and writing/language;