I do tend to agree with this evaluation. What the lefty psychologists who perpetuated the faux self-esteem movement never accounted for was that children from a young age, must have the experience of real accomplishment(s) and real failure(s), if they are to be able to discern what they can contribute to society and when they need to “let the ball go” to someone better than themselves for the whole team to achieve.
Real accomplishment and real failure feed and grow the imagination and make a person better. All this generally must happen when they are in their formative years. If it doesn’t ...we get a whole population that is angry/frustrated and doesn’t know how to achieve anything, let alone real greatness. This, this is 0bama who doesn’t know how to play well with other people, instead he relies on his phone and his pen. This is his whole “leading from behind,” because he doesn’t know how to lead a team or coach a team. And to his advantage, neither do any of his other sycophants. So this is where we get liberal bullies from: Pelosi (vote before finding out what’s in it), Lois Lerner, Eric Holder and a whole host of regime counterparts that work together like the grinding of teeth.
If you read the biographies of the inventive geniuses of the past 200 years (Edison, Carnegie, Ford, Jobs, others) you will find that they each found they learned the most from their own spectacular failures, picked themselves up and developed some new product or service that addressed the problems form the failures. If you don’t risk enough to fail (or recognize that you have failed) there is no way you can adjust to a better future.