It proves, once again, that extrinsic motivation does not work. If you help someone achieve a goal, they will owe you some of their success, lessening their ow

It proves, once again, that extrinsic motivation does not work. If you help someone achieve a goal, they will owe you some of their success, lessening their own merit. On the opposite, as this story shows, the intrinsic motivation can make you do stuff that you thought impossible: http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2009/04/moving-boat.html http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2009/04/moving-boat.html So maybe to help people achieve their dream, you have to tell them that it can't be done, that it's impossible. This would be a truly altruistic way to help people, since you can't claim any part of their success in that case. All they will tell you will be "I told you it can be done!".