The Relationship Between Highly Competitive Environment and Self Doubt

There seems to be a connection between highly competitive en and the internal generation of self doubto you talk, for example, about walking down the corridors at your first job. Is there a risk, in some ways, in over inflating students' sense of how good they might be? I think there is a risk, emmy. And certainly there is nothing wrong with offering encouragement. But i do think that one could go overboardwith the praise if the level of praise exceeds what they either believe about themselves or maybe even exceeds what they have actually accomplished.