As a certified health coach, I am always looking for quality courses to continue my education. I do want to stress quality since I have paid for and spent time on courses with little or no worthy content. The Science of Well Being is a course I will return to again and again for both my coaching business and for personal benefit. Professor Santos has an easy going presentation style and even admits she is not perfect with everything she teaches. In addition, glad I came across Coursera to assist with my continuing education. A lot of quality courses!

This has been a life changing course for me. The science of well-being though intended to teach me about the things that really matter, have opened my eyes and mind to the critical fact that my perception makes a big difference to the state of my happiness/joy. If my thoughts and actions are not delibrate in savouring every second and being grateful for the things I have acomplished in relations to where I was some years back then am a long way from being fulfilled and happy. Really happy I signed up for this course. I will recommed it to a lot of persons

Personally, I am quite grateful, that I stepped out of my comfort zone to register and successfully complete this Well-Being course. The modern use of technology to provide this course has been an outstanding educational delivery format. The course flow, lectures, videos and content have been pivotal during this time, and I truly learned self-improvement skills and techniques. Moreover, this course has brought me a much better understanding of how I can implement changes in my life to improve my own ‘authentic’ happiness. Thank you, Claire Lang/student.

Opens your eyes to the world and to what is going on inside your head, This course has nudged me to become a better version of myself and I will never ever forget what this course taught me. I have no regrets in enrolling and spending hours and hours into this course. I definitely recommend this course if you're starting with doing MOOC's because this is amazing. I am actually a bit sad now that the course is over to the point where I want to start it all over again. I could not recommend this course enough. Professor Laurie Santos is an awesome teacher!

This course gives a lot of practical and easily applicable advice and scientifically-proven techniques on how to improve well-being. It has the potential to give life-changing insight to just about anyone - from those who are just looking for ways to appreciate the little things to those who are trying to shift their entire paradigm of happiness. It is a course that requires self-dedication, self-searching, and a healthy dose of honesty in regards to changing the habits that we practice everyday that are detrimental to true happiness. I highly recommend!

This is an excellent course and worth your time. The course goes through all the myths about happiness and then unleashes the mysteries of happiness! Interestingly, it did not feel like a traditional course (for a biomedical science student) and I was glad it was this way. I also encourage to go through the happiness lab podcast (suggested in the course) for which you don't have to sign-up for anything. I felt it was very helpful throughout my journey.

Special thanks to Dr Laurie Santos for making Rashad a little more knowledgable and, I guess, happier.

The course lays out a simple strategy for well being recommending simple actions taken daily to boost happiness/fulfillment/well-being. The insight is that our daily self-care efforts have a bigger influence than we believe and that reflecting on their impact requires us to override our negative/survival bias. Dr. Santos does a superb job in summarizing decades of research and interviews current thought leaders to support these ideas. The ReWi app is wonderful and makes daily reflection easy. Through daily reflection, our habits can become "Atomic".

My compliments! Thank you so much!

I am a radiologist, mother of 2 kids, living in the citycentre of Amsterdam, lots of stimuli all the time. A wonderful life but it felt like I was racing through life. Your course makes me step out of the ratrace and appreciate my life and therefore does make me a lot happier, truly amazing, thank you!

There are 2 subject I was surprised not to hear about in this course. The first is sex, the second are psychedelics (microdose). My apologies if I am to upfront, but well, I am Dutch .

Again, thank you so very much!

Pien

excellent work. The way positive Phycology was introduced and discussed was well structured and its knowledge was shared in a pretty fluent way (Flow). It awakens interest in this newly learned field and that was the main success of lecturer. WEL DONE and count me in for any such course in future. It changed my perception about things and also included in my way of living. I feel overwelled by the community understanding and commitment to self well being . Let me suggest change in course title a little if i may. The Science of actually Living .....

I am truly grateful to Yale University for provide these courses for us to continue our learning and better understand how to engage in the challenges we face and cultivate our own happiness. To build and develop healthy consistent habits in our lives. Professor Laurie Santos has provided us the the foundation and tools to living and designing our own happiness and being more accountable for our habits. The research has given us the tools and foundation to be more proactive and help us to be the change within our own lives.

Thank you and God Bless.

This was an amazing course. By implementing what I have learned in class, I have the tools to increase my overall happiness all of the time. The method used in teaching this was simple to grasp and made it easier to explain to other people. I feel blessed having the opportunity to participate. Earlier this week I listened to Dr. Santos' podcast with Lewis Howes that aired on June 1, and found myself shaking my head yes the whole time. I was already in my rewirement weeks and not only was everything said science supported, but Jennifer supported.

I am so amazed. This course is awesome and somehow I feel sad that it has finished. I have learned so much and it really made a difference in my life. Unbelievable that it is for free, with such an excellent level of quality. No scam. Further I would like to tell other people who did that course: Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I realized that it increases my happiness, too, reading that other people's happiness has improved after taking the course and how they have developed strategies that have changed their mindsets. I wish you all the best

This was a very practical course that supported the application of well being skills. It modeled that mindfulness and wellbeing are skills that can be taught, practiced and skillfully used in everyday life and to great personal benefit. As a teacher with a heavy caseload and mentorship role, I have used the course to navigate my own work/life balance and support new teachers in a very demanding career with mindfulness framing. I would highly recommned this course. The workload and lecture seriers was manageable with a full time job and family.

Professor Laurie Santos is engaging and the way she cured scientific research into the course topics is brilliant. As an aspiring educator, I want to learn from her the way in which she can simply explain complex research in a way any student can understand, and at the same time demonstrating vast knowledge of the literature. Moreover, the contents of the course are effective in improving well-being. Despite the pandemic and the effects of it gradually deteriorating my work and personal life, my overall well-being score increased from 8.06 to 8.9.

I enjoyed the psychological framework of the class, the empirical references and the tangible tools to put the teachings into practice. I am very appreciative for this course during these stressful times and think everyone would benefit from taking this class. I've taken many courses in science, many of which included psychology and enjoyed them, learned from them and/or possibly improved in someway. However, I think this is the only course that actually made me happier; it made be better my state of being and that is invaluable in any experience.

I really enjoyed this class. It also woke me to a realization of how I’ve been perceiving my level of well being, my happiness, and really a better realistic way I should be looking at it. It has been fascinating.

I also appreciated the layout of how the class was taught, the ease of being self paced and the personal satisfaction of completing the assignments and by default of the nature of the class, my personal goals. I think many people could benefit not only from this specific course, but from the less traditional way of taking the class.

I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for have gotten the opportunity to follow this course. This is a very good program. You have endless opportunities to learn something new. Savoring my willingness to learn something and enhance my abilities in life. My overall experience was great, being motivated to continue applying what I have learned beyond this course. Savoring every moment in my life, continue sharing my experiences with the people around me and living a life I desrve. I am extremely Grateful. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I really enjoyed this course. It made me realize the importance of knowing what is important and what things actually make us happy. It kept me occupied during lockdown and I am really grateful because it was during this time where I really noticed that the things I missed the most were: hanging out with my friends and family, going for walks, and experiences in general. Being kind, being grateful, having a good mental health (achieved by social connections, exercise and a good mindset) and savour things on a daily basis are the key to happiness.

Don't let Dr. Santos's laid back style fool you. There is a lot to be learned from this course and taking the rewirement challenges seriously can be life changing. Learning about numerous studies each week that back up the validity of activities that lead to happiness was the affirmation I needed to push myself to adopt some new behaviors and emphasize others with gusto. There is much to gain from the course, and it's not just for youngsters. I retired a few months ago and have found that improving my well-being is an energizing, achievable goal.

I loved it! Ms. Santos was great and for the first time in my life I felt that I was taking a course that was just a pleasure to be part of and I've had my fair share of classes in college. As I explained earlier in the course, this course has highlighted and validated all the things I intrinsically knew and has shown me ways to keep those things more present in my life, like kindness, savoring and gratefulness, experiences are better than stuff, etc. But most importantly, this course has provided strategies to better apply it to my daily life.

I did this extra course because I am already working with the methodes Dr. Laurie Santons explained as a coach / trainer and I wanted to develop myself even more. Even if I knew the core of what this was about, all the details, scientific research and practical tools were from great added value and most of it completely new! It was again a sign that you can always learn new things, always develop yourself further even if you THINK you know already a lot about the topic. I enjoyed this course very much and share the new insights with my coachees.

It was very easy to follow the content. What needs to be learned at this level got covered beautifully, without bringing in any complications. But at the same time, references were provided for those interested.

Interviews from external experts whose work that were covered in the course was another good thought.

Above all the practical focus and the need to implement the learning from the course and then completing the final assignment. This helped me bringing in some good practices in life and I am able to continue the same so far. Thanks a lot.

The course has helped me to understand so much about what will lead to feel a greater sense of well-being and happiness. I am fascinated by how our minds are set to almost cause us dissatisfaction and then the healthy strategies we can adopt to introduce a happier mindset. I had no idea that gratitude and kindness were so powerful or that mind wandering was so distracting and unhelpful.

Dr Santos is an engaging and empowering teacher and the course is well planned. This was my first experience of an online coursera and has been excellent.

The science of well being course run by Ms. Santos and team at Yale University was a life saver for me during this COVID lockdown phase in Mumbai with my family in the UK.It kept me on an even keel and I enjoyed every moment of the lectures, the reading and the recommended TED talks. I enjoyed doing 1 rewirement every week. For my final rewirement I chose meditation which is going to be my lifelong companion now and this has increased my happiness quotient significantly. Heartfelt thanks to Yale University, Coursera and Ms Santos and her team.

This was an awesome and very helpful course. Maybe it was more or less easy for me to finish it, because i deal with stress myself (and looking for ways to reduce it) and i have to take care for a lot of employees.

I recommend this course, because you get a lot of examples how you can get happier next to the science background about the human behavior. I also recommend the podcast "The happiness lab". Perfect Addition to the course.

It already helped me a lot to change my behaviors and be a little bit happier and less stressed most of the days.