Payoff: the hidden logic that shapes our motivations

Introduction: From tragedy to meaning and motivation: on the complexity of motivation, and a personal story

How to destroy motivation, or: Work as a prison movie: why it's astonishingly easy to demotivate someone

The joy of (even thinking that we are) making something: on our deep attachment to our own ideas and creations

Money is from Mars, pizza is from Venus, and compliments are from Jupiter: why money matters far less than we think

On death, relationships, and meaning: the crazy urge for symbolic immortality, and how love conquers all

Epilogue: The answer to the ultimate question: the mystery of motivation, in summary.