[dreamdu5t]

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that your self-worth IS tied to your accomplishments. People will tell you "just be happy with who you are". This is in my honest experience completely bullshit. Doing great things or things that others value makes people feel good about themselves. That's just reality as I've observed it. However, doing great things does not necessarily mean programming or starting a business. I like bicycling and "doing great things" in that area means winning races, or garnering street cred on instagram and through other social avenues.

I think your problem is that you need to be smarter about the projects you do, or find something else to excel at rather than random open source programming.

The people who tell you that you should not tie your self-esteem to your accomplishments in my experience are just compensating for their own personal failings (this will be the majority of people you're surrounded by). They don't want you to be happy from succeeding at something because they're unhappy with things they've failed at.