Metamodern. Happiness Squared

Before you is a training book. Its main task is to help you, after studying the theoretical material and completing practical assignments, to realize your project. What can be a project? Everything we want, strive for, and focus our attention... on. For example: business, career, communication, education, family, and life in general. The core of the metamodern method, which Professor and Doctor of Psychological Sciences Pavel Piskarev invites us to use, lies in an analytical system of four squares. Each of which—when focused properly—provides a clear coordinate system: what was, what is, what will be, and when and how it will be realized.

Here are just some of the "side effects" that will inevitably arise for you while working with the system that many today call the humanitarian sensation of the 21st century:
1. Development of the ability to see much in the small, greatness in the small, and this is wisdom and a distinctive feature of the implementer. Regular application of the model helps to live interestingly, consciously, and continuously develop.
2. Attaining the ability to see inner beauty in everyday ordinariness. The capacity to perceive unobtrusive beauty at first glance leads to contemplation of goodness and spiritual insight. This is how the miracle of a new vision of life is born.
3. Developing the ability to look at the project systematically, structurally, from different angles, from four positions. Thanks to such a thinking strategy, we obtain more information about the project, which means we make the best decisions.
4. Attaining a harmonious, holistic perception of oneself and the surrounding world. This leads to order in thoughts, and therefore in life. As a result, we begin to act according to proven models and technologies, rather than habits and "factory settings" absorbed in childhood.
5. Developing creativity, integrity, and flexibility in thinking and decision-making.

"This book is about happiness, moreover—happiness squared. For 40 thousand years, world civilization has been trying to attain this state of happiness. And those who described the path to happiness were called Teachers, preachers, prophets.
This book contains an introduction to the science of happiness, a preliminary introductory course, systematically presented in a concise, but not elementary form.
One must agree with the author that this knowledge is for intellectuals. Studying the book will require you to make efforts and focused attention to achieve a magnificent result through the model, to realize your own project playfully and learn to be happy". — V. V. Kozlov, Professor, Doctor of Psychological Sciences.