I thoroughly enjoyed this course. The content was engaging, the rewirements were vital to putting this into practice, and I can honestly say this was lifechanging. I have done a lot of soul searching and self awareness in the last 10 years, and I so appreciated how this brought many new and old elements of what I've learned together while putting it in real world terms and scenarios. Dr. Laurie Santos is a gem, and I am confident she could teach anything and it would enliven and alter my perspective.

I enjoyed this course very much, it did teach me to be more aware of other feelings besides my own. I pay attention to saying hello to strangers and giving them a smile maybe even when I am not feeling it. I started walking again, which is amazing by itself, it has been about 7 years since I did walk each day. I have lost about 20 lbs. so far and will continue striving to stay in shape. Thank you for making me aware of savoring, and friendships and constantly working toward being happy every day!

Fantastic course on how the brain actually works for Well-Being. Backed by empirically validated science, it explains how everything we think make us happy doesn't, and how you can rewire your brain and re-frame your view, and in turn increase actual happiness. It has made a huge impact on my life, it will for you too if you take on the re-wirement protocols outlined on the course and absorb the information. Presented brilliantly by Laurie Santos, she has made it easily digestible. Highly recommend.

I was so delighted to be able to do this course, particularly during a really tough time thanks to furlough and the national lockdowns. I feel blessed that there was no charge too - truly Yale are giving back and I have felt the benefits over the period of the course. A clear, easy to follow lecture style with practical implementation makes this something I can use in my everyday life moving forwards. Thanks to Laurie and everyone at Yale for giving me the course and a taste of Ivy League life too!!

In the midst of the global pandemic and all the social issues we are facing, this course has been a helpful and beneficial source of practical and tangible strategies for me to incorporate better and healthier habits to take care of what I can control, which is my mind and body, into my daily routine and lifestyle. I learned so much and I am very thankful I was able to go on this journey. I am filled with gratitude and motivation to continue on living a life aimed at prioritising my well-being more.

This class was the perfect combination of engaging, entertaining content and scientific data and resources applied to a personal goal everyone has: to be happier! I learned a lot and even concepts that felt "common sense" were thoroughly discussed and backed up with research. I feel enlightened and more resilient having taken this class. I've worked on my "re-wirements" and feel the better for it. I recommend this course highly for anyone who wants to add some tools to their toolbox of life skills.

I LOVED THIS COURSE!! I believe Dr.Laurie Santos is incredibly intelligent and really love to learn from! She brought in so much data and digestible scientific research. This whole course is teaching everything that is common sense, but that in our society we overlook our thoughts and behaviors so easily. This course will help you rethink our daily practices and will encourage you to challenge what you thought was making us happy and will teach you the key things to increase our overall well-being!

I found this online Coursera course by Yale Professor Laurie Santos to be enlightening and engaging. I have learned much from this course that I will use in my daily life. It offers the science behind things that our brains do to stop us from living our best life. It offers practical ways to on how to overcome the obstacles in our minds to be able to put the practices learned during this course in daily use to maintain our well-being. I would recommend it to anyone concerned with their well-being.

I love this course so much! Great recommendations on how to live your best life, grounded in science. I have done a lot of work around personal growth in the past few years and I wasn't sure how much I would really learn, but a friend organized a group to take the course together so I figured why not. I really did learn some new strategies and approaches to well-being, and my happiness scores increased pre- to post- course. I only wish I'd had something like this decades ago when I was in college.

I found the course to be really pleasant, informative and I really looked forward to the lectures. I am really happy the course has given me an array of tools to use to be happier. One of the guests pointed out happiness is like a leaky tire you have to keep filling up. I love that analogy and if I feel my tire is starting to deflate a bit I can go to the happiness toolbox and choose from my strengths, gratitude, kindness, connections, sleep, exercise, meditation, etc. to pump the tire back up.

Evidence-based research and engaging lecture content, coupled with weekly challenges, made for an exceptional learning experience. Most of the "strategies" shared were things I thought I already knew. But to have those strategies clearly explained and backed by scientific research, it made incorporating them into my daily life easy and exciting! I feel better than I have in a long time and am happy to be thoroughly engaged in the lifelong, ever-changing, dynamic pursuit of happiness and wellbeing.

Backed by years of research, the information and skills you learn in this course can help you to direct your own happiness, if you're willing to put in the time. You get to learn on your own time and there are great ways to find out more information. This is appealing to all learners in that you can read, watch more videos and take notes as you'll need them to help you through the quizzes. I've learned valuable information that weill help me in my work to become more mindful and increase my joy.

I thoroughly enjoyed this course and feel that everyone could benefit from it. The style of course delivery is informal which makes the content more approachable, and this is complemented by the fact that the topics covered are relevant to everyday life and therefore hold your attention. I even enjoyed the additional reading material and videos and I have signed up to the Happiness Lab podcast. Of all the Coursera courses I signed up to, this is the one I looked forward to learning more about.

Great instructor and a good insight of what balance really helps you to find a sustainable way to include new behaviors which will help you to be more aware with yourself and your surrounding. Also the facts and studies really helped to become a good feeling of the thought that happiness is YOUR own choice and not the choice of your life circumstances and people who surround you (just saying...40% is under your control and just 10% of the feeling of happiness comes from your life circumstances!).

Very insightful first half talking about research on well-being and positive psychology. I liked the academic context for this rich subject and learned so much such as how our minds are so bad at estimating what will make us happy. Money, a good grade, a good job, a big house...all those are illusions that don't really make us happy.

My favorite part was the second half which focused on what DOES make us happy - things like being kind, social connection, meditation, exercise, time with loved ones.

I truly enjoyed the content given in this course. The science presented to authenticate the seemingly insignificant changes to promote daily well- being were very convincing. The fact that I truly experienced improvement in overall well- being and level of happiness while completing the challenges given has encouraged me to continue to practice what I have learned. I may even repeat this course in a year for the motivation alone! Thank you for making this course so easily assessable online.

I believe this course can be of value to many individuals seeking not only knowledge but actionable tools or resources to help them develop and improve their overall well-being. This course provided me a plethora of different options (diverse) and provided actionable steps to support the student in the journey. And at the end of the course one can measure their progress and use tools to continue long after the course has ended to continue their development and improvement. I highly recommend!

I have LOVED participating in this course with my co-worker. It has been thought provoking, challenging and refreshing all at the same time. These are skills and practices that can be used at any stage in life, and are truly foundational life-skills and knowledge needed for an abundant life! I am so grateful to the research, time and effort that has gone into the field of psychology to not only understand our species, but also to make us better and understand ourselves and others along the way.

This course show why so many people are unhappy. They are focussing on all kinds of things that really do not contribute to sustainable happiness. This course helps you discover what actually does help to be more happy and focussed in life. And while the solutions seem easy at first, it is quite hard to set up routines to keep them in place. Fortunately the course also recognises that challenge and takes care of it. I recommend this course to anyone who would like to feel a bit happier in life.

I think it's a very benificial lesson for any learners or psychology students. I liked the techniques in this course and it seems we don't really act upon our happiness. We say we want happiness but in order to be that we need to use some technics. For me this course helped me. I tell people around me these techniques. When the first year of my psych. education in Turkey i watched Moralities of everyday life's lessons of Yale, now i a a graduated find another amazing lesson. Thank you so much !

Incredibly informative material and really easy to digest, but you'll only get out of this course what you put in. Merely knowing the information is not enough to change behaviour.

With that said, I did learn that what I thought would make me happiest is almost counter intuitive to what can actually make me more happy.

Highly recommended for anyone who can see benefits in feeling more upbeat, more aware, more energetic and simply happier on a day-to-day basis.

Thanks Laurie for a great course!

This was a great course, not only did I learn from the professor but I learned a different perspective on items of interest by other taking the course. I would recommend this course to as many people as possible. I recommended this course to my youngest daughter and I hope that I can keep looking at the course course material for a while.

I wish, I could be one of the people who could teach this curriculum, but I am not a teacher although I do teach many people as a recreational therapist.

I have already come across this information and I am a particularly flexible and well adapted individual, however I found the lectures to be engaging and the science to be very interesting. It also helped me start a habit I have wanted to do for a while and hadn't quite managed to incorporate in my busy life. I definitely recommend the course if you are in a transition moment in your life, or just want to take a moment to look back at your life an evaluate how much you have to be grateful for.

Es una excelente maestra , explica muy bien todo en este curso. Meditacion como ayuda esta practica diaria. Dormir bien para uno no sentirse infeliz 7 horas de sueno es bueno para el cuerpo. Muy buen curso para esta pandemia la recomiendo a todos los estudiantes y de todas las edades. La Dr. Santos explica muy bien y con ejemplos. Los libros son muy buena guia y se consiguen faciles tambien.

Muchas gracias a coursera por esta clase que en momentos de pandemia ayuda mucho en el diario vivir.

This class was exactly what I needed to hear to have the confidence and excitement to go back to school. I have found a new way to be happy and am not so focused on what is making everyone else happy. I now know what makes me happier. A lot of the material is validation in things that we might hear all the time but need to be reminded of how important they are to your well being. You will not be disappointed in this course if you take the time to listen and pay attention to what speaks to you.