This course has changed my life in a positive way. I am grateful that I got the opportunity to participate and learn from Dr. Laurie Santos and my peers.

A very good course with ample amount of empirical research and scientific strategy and rewirements to make happiness part of life of an individual.

Cảm ơn khóa học rất nhiều! Tôi đã học được nhiều chủ sở hữu và thú vị. Tôi đã thay đổi và sẽ tiếp tục thay đổi bản thân để trở nên hạnh phúc hơn.

Thank you Yale and Coursera for an amazingly uplifting and practical course where I have been able to apply what I have learnt to my real life.

I loved taking this course, I feel better having completed it, knowing I have a few more tools in my box and new hope for the future!

I learned a lot. Great material and presentation style. Practical info that I can share with my clients!

Thanks,

Chris

Fascinating insights into subconscious vulnerabilities around happiness, and ways to recognizing and overcome them.

Successful course to learn all happiness skills and improvement. You learn both theory but most of all practice!

You will feel great to know the techniques of keeping yourself mentally healthier after taking this course.

A very valuable course if self improvement & happiness are what you're after. Excellent lectures& guidance.

A lot of "WOW"-Moments, insights into the science of happiness and how to put it in your day-to-day life.

Excellent course. Worth every minute. I think the instructor is fantastic. She gets an A+ in my book!

I've learned tones and it helped me trough hard times and for my pratice as a spychotherapist outdoor

I truly enjoyed this course! It helped me see things differently regarding how is happiness defined.

amazing course and an amazing honest instructor and very well documented and science backed up ideas

Definitely made me rethink about what I though would make me happy. I highly recommend this course

Appropriate course for all people who need to reconnect habits and improve well-being in general.

Great course. Easily accessible, good pace and very engaging and down to earth content. Loved it!

It was very satisfying course in the right timing! Thank you for this amazing study.

Clearly presented and a good level of challenge.

Amazingly informative and well explained.

The last 4 weeks where we implemented our choice action was anti-climactic..especially for me and maybe others who, except for one rewirement, specifically, meditation, had already implemented the other rewirements into our lives. I was disappointed. This was really a 4 week ish kind of course and without followup. I read most of my fellow-student musings and many were floundering. I know that one on one is not possible but brief Q and A's might have helped OR lectures from other experts (like me) who help people to accomplish their goals. The initial lectures were excellent, really and gave us researched-back knowledge and tools and that is where the real value lay. (as an aside, putting Yale on a pedestal and Yalies on it, did nothing for this online course but we took it with a grain of salt)

Nice job professor.. nice lecture delivery. thank you

Really interesting and useful information. Since this course is now hosted on coursera for a global audience though I would suggest the professor re-film the course with that audience in mind. We aren't all privileged college students. It would be greatly appreciated for examples to be framed with a diverse audience in mind.

Frankly, I was underwhelmed. There was way too little discussion about the intensity of the conflict between the things that make humans happy and the real world context of our lives. Without this, there seems to be too little acknowledgement of the challenge facing those who want to be happy in today's world and therefore the recommendations in the course come across as rather pollyannaish. Yes, you can empty a cup of water with a spoon - but if you're confronting a tidal wave, a spoon isn't going to be all that helpful.

Much of the data and literature used in the course is quite dated. As such, I didn't have a high level of confidence that the conclusions were really supported by a wide and continuing body of literature or whether they were simply cherry-picked to support the professor's views. (I also wondered how many of the referenced social science experiments were replicable.)

The software was a bit glitchy at times. Delays in elements being marked completed, etc. Could use some improvement.

I also thought the professor waffled more than a bit on the issue of social media. If social media is really making people intensely unhappy, say so - and then ask yourself how easy it would be to attend an modern academic institution without access to social media. (And, BTW, what's Yale doing about it?)

On the upside, the price is right for this online course. If you were going to spend money, however, I would suggest purchasing "Excellent Sheep" and then really talking about the main topics in the book with a group of friends.