Sociopathy (& other low-empathy conditions) tend to be classified as personality disorders precisely because they are so resistant to intervention. Incentives can induce better behavior, but since they’ll use a wider range of gaming strategies it’s v hard to set that table well
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He is obviously not suggesting that and it's frankly gross to pull that move.
If people can be — and routinely are — kept from doing great things despite having exceptional abilities, "the truly capable can succeed anyway" cannot hold. What makes you confident that you know the point on the spectrum of disenfranchisement where success can just be assumed?
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You still haven't clarified what specific discouragement mechanisms you're talking about, so it's difficult to fully engage with the argument, but I suspect that you are considerably underestimating how much discouraging messaging many bright people are fighting from the get-go.
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Blanket you-can-do-it motivational poster talk isn't helpful, either, and that's not what I'm advocating. What I'm advocating is that when someone in one's circle announces some difficult thing they want to do, the default response be to try to figure out how to help enable them.
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