[cheeko1234]

I think people that were told that they were special and that they'd amount to something great as children are the ones that suffer most from this mentality.

The expectation of performance was artificially inflated which leads to difficulty dealing with failure and constant feelings of dissatisfaction.

[SMAAART]

Maybe. I have mixed feelings about your statement.

Growing up the messages to me were quite the opposite (without going into details), and now here I am, fully grown adult, full of doubt, uncertainties, fears, full of Anxieties that prevent me from achieving my full potential.

I guess your overall principal is correct, we all know people that fit your statement; at the same time individual experiences and reactions to those experience are also big contributors to outcomes.