Your statements are all true, in isolation from the question they answer. But I do not see why this risk means that self-worth should not be connected to accomp

Your statements are all true, in isolation from the question they answer. But I do not see why this risk means that self-worth should not be connected to accomplishments. As I see it, an analogy to your argument would be that making a car's fuel gauge dependent on the amount of fuel in the car's fuel tank, means that the car is at risk of showing a low reading on its fuel gauge in the future.