It's been brilliant. I love the mixed approach. It is the first course on Coursera that I'm actually going to finish and that is because I can see the applicability of what I am learning in my day-to-day life. That being said, it mixes up with academic rigour and it opened up a whole new area of psychology which speaks to me much more than the clinical one. I'm following this up with the Positive psychology specialisation and let's see where this takes me. Have recommended it to friends who are also taking the course :) Thank you!

This was a very good course on well-being. Annoying features of the mind and certain misconceptions were delts scientifically. Retwrement features of the course to implement the learning from the course have been very useful to understand the various concept. WOOP framework to develop the habits was well explained by psychologist Gabriele Oettingen. Exercise and meditation rewirement taken by many learners including myself has been helpful to increase wellness scores. I am grateful to Prof. Laurie Santos for conducting the course

This was a truly mind blowing course full with fascinating new research and plenty of practical ways we could apply that knowledge into our every day lives. I learned quite a few new things here! Additionally, the course had integrated a scientific tracking system so you could actually track the difference it was making in your very own life. It seems that all the information provided in this delightfully designed course was the final push I needed to take a risk and put myself out there. Happiness apparently gives me confidence.

I love everything this course taught me. It has really helped rewire my thinking and I find myself often taking the time to be grateful for little things like the bird singing outside right now and the beauty in nature. If you knew me at all, you'd know this is crazy talk coming from me. I needed this course before the lockdown because I had moved to a foreign country a year ago and have not been able to find my footing here. This course has helped me ease up on myself and appreciate what I do have. Where's the master's class?!?!

This course was a fundamental part of a personal self-betterment journey that started five months ago and what I learned from it, will now be an ongoing part of my life. It gave me the foundations and necessary material to rewire myself into a healthier set of habits. I feel so grateful towards myself for taking it up and completing it! And getting to read about other people's experience and share our own added that beautiful human touch to it all. Thank you to Professor Laurie Santos and to everyone who made this course happen!

I found this course to be very interesting. Combination of videos, interviews, Q&A sessions, books and articles recommendations gives a lot of useful information in easy to digest format. Weekly rewirements are easy to accomplish and help to reflect on what is important. I believe that completing this course helped me to increase level of happiness and gave me tools to maintain it. Building new habits is not easy but much easier with what I have learnt from this course. I will recommend this course to my friends and co-workers.

This course was an excellent reminder to focus on what counts. I feel I had a slight advantage in knowing what makes me happy because I am likely older than most of the students and clearly a couple decades older than the Professor! It was nice to see the science and study behind everything I felt I had learned from my nearly six decades on this planet. At best this course will make you look at life with a much better perspective, at worst, you might be able to appreciate and savor more that which is truly important to you.

Its been such a great experience, an amazing and wonderful journey.

I'm very thankful to the teacher, who helped me just just so much(thank you so much teacher)

The best things is, that if in some random moment, i feel bad or stressed, i can always come back here, and reread or re listen, which for me is just amazing.

I totally recommend this to everybody.

I would love to give more stars, but unfortunately, i can't.

Thank you so much, miss Laurie Santos, i am deeply thankful to you , and i will always treasure this place,thanks.

I thoroughly enjoyed the course. I was a good blend of lecture and planned work. I believe there were several key areas that a person could learn from and implement in their daily lives, to help them live happier ones. Dr. Santos is great. I like how she committed to some of the challenges herself, and was honest enough to admit they are not always easy to complete. I really liked the continue to learn sections, with additional resources. Because, even if the course is ending, our ability to learn doesn't necessarily have to.

The course has lead me on a journey of discovery and real interest on the topic of well being and happiness. During the course I ventured out to podcasts,and in particular "the happiness Lab",Meditative Story" and continue to really enjoy listening and learning.

I must admit I have become a follower of Laurie Santos - if I wasable to give her a gratitude letter in person I would BUT NZ is a long way away !!

I know I among millions who have done this course and that speaks for itself as far as review stars go>

THANK YOU SO MUCH

Super informative and super inspiring. Plus, Prof. Laurie Santos explains everything in a really relatable way. Through this course, I've become more sensitive and conscious about my purchases, about how I spend my time, and how I take care of myself and the people around me. It helped me realize that being happy means being intentional in your goals and in your actions. I'd love to review over and over the lessons here because I know there is still so much I can take from them. Thank you, Prof. Laurie, Yale, and Coursera!!!

Probably the best course I've taken in my life, both online and offline. The charming teacher explains the basics of how our brains are wired and provides tools to rewire them for our own good in an easy and digestible way.

Thank you so much for the course and the opportunity to finally believe I am capable of change :) Finally adopted all the habits I wanted to have for years. Certainly feeling myself way happier.

Good luck to all the students! And remember that knowing theory is one thing, but practise makes it all real <3

Content: Wonderful, insightful material, very competently presented.

On communication: the instructor needs to do a careful assessment of her speech habits. They are thoroughly cliched in intonation and words, e.g., the word "like" is used ad nauseaum. A critically-minded professor should not be a mirror of all the cliches, verbal intonations and fill words used in her current social context. Divest yourself, as much as possible, of all contemporary speech habits that detract from clear, concise and effective communication.

The content was great, but not challenging, which surprised me. The information was clear and made good sense to me. I wish I had taken the live course in the Yale classroom so I could have asked Dr. Santos questions, but that doesn't change my opinion of this course. I learned a lot about ways to increase my happiness. The assignments were where the change really started to happen, of course! I saw a whopping 35% increase in my happiness levels, and I feel more capable to continue improving my happiness with these tools.

This was my first online course like that, I really enjoyed combination of theory and practical rewirements. It made such a huge difference! Even forums, peer review and grading was a nice surprise, as it created this whole community and the feeling that we are all human and struggle sometimes and want to get better. It definitely created a lot of support structure.

I liked the format of the course and videos with some notes. I could do it when doing other things, like cooking, which made it easier to complete the course.

This course gives you science-based tools to implement in your life. It leads you through chosing one of the tools to work on daily for the last 4 weeks of the class and then you evaluate yourself to see if you have felt any improvement. This is a wonderful course you will carry with you the rest of your life and follow. It offers reality checks of what really makes you happy and you may be surprised at the science behind some of the answers. The lectures are very interesting the readings go more in-depth on the subjects.

This was an awakening. It was life-changing for all of us who believe in the pursuit of happiness and well-being. What I thought I wanted, needed, and longed for in my life was challenged. I am now pursuing something far greater. The epiphany that came with this course is not explained in the syllabus. Truly living within the rewirements and learning from them is provocative. Application of the tools is paramount to the course remaining alive in you long after the prestigious YALE certification fades in your inbox.

I began this course at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Southern California first went into lock-down. Having a course dedicated to maintaining happiness and healthy habits was crucial to my well-being, and aided greatly in finding the moments in life to be thankful for. For anyone interested, it's not a "fluffy" course and provides quantitative data & example to substantiate what's being taught. Highly recommended and WILL make you a better-balanced individual, or at least make you realize why you might not be.

This course has been super enlightening and through the use of actual qualitative studies has shared and shown the effectiveness of some incredibly easy and meaningful techniques to improve one's own well-being. The casual discussion format is easy to follow, and several times I've found myself surprised at the inaccuracies of what I thought I knew about increasing happiness versus what I've learned in this course. Also a great introduction to so many accessible resources to continue on after the course ends! Thank you!

I honestly think EVERYONE should take this course. I can only imagine what a better place we'd all be in if we understood what happiness is really based on and how to feel it more frequently. The choices we'd make would be different. The hours of the day would be spent differently. Our actions would be different. Our head space would be filled with different, better, more productive things. Overall, our communities would all be so much better and happier if everyone took this course and really took it to heart as well.

What a wonderful course! I love the mix of mind and heart because both are important in life.

Thank you Professor Santos - this can be so helpful and grounding to people of all ages. I am 54 and this has been so helpful and grounding during this crazy time. I have recommended it so pretty much everyone I know. I would especially love my kids (high school and college students) to participate. What wonderful tools and awarenesses to have at a young and potentially stressful time in life.

Have a fantastic holiday!

This course incorporates not only the research and science of well-being, but actively trains you to incorporate several habits into your daily routine to help you achieve a better quality of life. I appreciated the real-world application, as well as the paradigm-shifting science behind the activities. I expect (from Dr Santos' example) that this will be a lifelong endeavor; I will fail many times (thank you, hedonic adaptation!). But I believe that I have gained several skills that will help me continue to improve.

I greatly enjoyed this course, and got a lot out of it. I will say that incorporating life changes habits into a daily routine is easier said than done, especially once the course is over. But I learned a whole lot about strenghtening social connections, choosing experiences over things, and taking the time to appreciate and ENJOY the little things in life. I loved the studies that Lori referenced, truly making it the SCIENCE of Well Being. I feel I'm a better person (or at least on my way) since taking the course.

Thank you so much Laurie for providing this course. As an educator I found the information fascinating. Particularly the information on grades. I have actually used some of the data you showed with students with interesting results.

The course was invaluable. It was a perfect combination of theory and practical information. The data was really informative and it gave me a lot to think about. My top character skill was Love of Learning and I certainly loved this course and the knowledge I gained. Again, thank you.

Really good course. I feel like I learned so much. I do wish that the final rewirement challenge, was more of a challenge academically. For me I would have gotten a lot of benefit from a very in depth writing assignment that forced me to go back through the lectures to remind myself of the academic theories. However, I do appreciate that this manner of doing it was probably better for not excluding some people. This course was incredibly interesting both from a personal standpoint for my life as well as theoretically.