[gopher_space]

Forced to TA students like this in the US, both foreign and domestic, I'd say the real downside is that this produces incredibly brittle individuals. "Failure isn't an option" is not an attitude compatible with pushing your own boundaries or even just life in general.

[adastra22]

Worth noting that “failure is not an option” wasn’t even said by Gene Krantz. That ethos doesn’t work at NASA any more than anywhere else.