And, here, there is and always has been a societal component in the motivation factor. Every healthy society imposes negative motivational forces, to help people discipline themselves; provide incentives against criminal and other anti-social behavior. It is typical of the victimization culture of the Left, however, that they confuse the one area where social environment has always played a major role--that is in the criminalization and stigmatization of anti-social behavior--by providing excuses for misconduct, even as they blame other failures of the miscreants on third parties.
No whatever your innate characteristics, you are personally responsible for what you do with what you have. Any any dilution of that concept is counter-productive to the true interests both of the individual and his society. The strength of any society will be measured to a major degree, by the extent that it succeeds in instilling the concept of personal responsibility--and accountability--in its members.
Any any dilution of that concept is counter-productive to the true interests both of the individual and his society.
Yes, and dilution of that concept can ether be by means of incorrect weighing of the environment or incorrect weighing of genetics.
The monsters are waiting to devour us if we overcompensate either way. 
Very well said.
And to correlate: it's failure is it's inability or unwillingness to instill personal responsibility.