I think the part that made learning about this topic more interesting was choosing and building good habits as a way to ensure you have good well-being, the older you get. We got to choose between exercise, sleep, meditation, deep breathing, gratitude letter, and more. We also got to review what the experience was like at the end and if our scores for happiness increased or decreased as a result of the activity or activities chosen.

In the first place I want to say thank you for this course. It's life changing. I found this course to be a difficult time in my life. I didn't see meaning in my life, was very frustrated and lost. My psychologist diagnosed depression. This course was something that filled in the blanks in my soul.  When I saw that in the last three weeks we should have practiced rewirements, I said to myself that this is the time for my challenge. 

Loved this course. It builds in time to practice strategies and helps you build a repertoire of strategies that can be used in isolation or in tandem to help cope with the everyday stresses as well as major life-altering events. Loved it from beginning to end and am still reaping the benefits as well as keeping up with the Podcast and the facebook page. I truly am happier for having taken this course - everyone should take it! :D

This course changed my view of what happiness is. I am coming away with so many tools to implement into my daily routine. I am a happier person having taken this course and I'm excited to continue using what i have learned from The Science of Well-Being. I have recommended this course to so many. I will continue to encourage anyone looking to understand their happiness better or to improve their happiness to engage with this course.

This course couldn't have come at a better time. Learning positive psychology during such a wild worldwide event surrounded by a negative news cycle has been the lifeline I didn't know I needed. I'll be taking these tools forward with me until the end of time and am so grateful that I will be able to revisit the material to keep it fresh. Thank you Yale and Dr. Santos for building this very succinct and easy to follow curriculum.

This course was like awakening a GIANT. I am now a different human with superpowers and I have been UNLEASHED. Thank you.

This completely aligns with my passion and purpose in life. I am professionally a Life Coach and have been that for many years. I have changed thousands of lives and this course has now given me a new set of tools from which to guide my clients, friends, students and family. Oh, so much FUN ahead.

Game on, World!!

I am so grateful to have participated in this course !!! It gave me insights on how to deal with every day events in life keeping always a positive mind. The concepts you learn here are explained in a clear way and the rewirements give you the opportunity to put into practice what you have learned. The course is more than advisable. It is a "have-to-do" course that will enlighten your life. Thank you Laurie and your team for this.

I loved the course, and your podcast too, " The Happiness Lab" and "The Science of Well-Being" have changed my life and how i relate to experience in a more constructive way. My negativity, stress, self hatred, anxiety and even rudeness to others have come to a more manageable state in which i know i can eliminate, or at least, minimize these traits of my life. Thank you very much, and keep this work. Love from Dominican Republic.

In this course I have engaged in a series of challenges designed to increase my own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. We will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into our life.

Excellent; 2 main benefits, for me:

1) Even if many of the learnings were intuitive, adding scientific rigor adds a valuable additional perspective that basic things are really good for our health!

2) You can never be reminded enough of these healthy habits. Even if you already know it all, I find myself in an improved mood just going through the course -- it has an impact on how likely I am to hold myself to these habits.

Thank you.

This course was awesome! Laurie is an amazing professor and the content just keeps you interested and coming back every week. By the end of the class my scores had increased and I feel like I have a better understanding of what really does make me happy. I'm not a school educator but I share this information with everyone I know and would love to use it a study group like some do for a book club. Thank you for sharing this class!

The Science of Well-Being is an excellent class with a well laid-out curriculum. It was great to have a plethora of scientific evidence to support the various actions to increase happiness. The final rewirement, which we practiced for a month, was a helpful exercise and at the end of the course I was pleased to have such proven tools to use to keep up my practice and to extend it to other rewirements and other habits in my life.

Thank You Professor Laurie Santos for sharing all your knowledge and making it so simple that we all want to take this class. It will definitely stay with me forever. Lots of gratitude, it came at the right time in my life. I really enjoyed all your videos, you made it fun!

This course is a must for everyone at any age, we all need to take kindness, gratitude and savoring to the next level, especially during these difficult times.

This course was really eye opening ! The professor is engaging and intriguing with the reading course material . As well, as the discussions with other students.I absolutely excited about the course each time, I went online for the teachings! I am excited to use the skills I've learned for more goals within my life! In addition, to creating happiness in my life with less material possessions and explore more adventures in life!

I'm so glad my niece suggested I take this course with her! We enjoyed chatting weekly about how the course was going, and the various things we learned about. Giving us 4 weeks at the end to really try out the rewirements we learned was GREAT. I'm shocked that my happiness scores actually went up, when all I made was a simple change. Thanks Dr. Santos for making this on-line course available, you're helping so many people!

This has been my FIRST (!) online course. I very much enjoyed the professor's open mindedness and humility, including sharing her own challenges in meeting daily effort to apply the many areas of well-being development outlined in the course. Also, I found the Coursera platform and online technologies (the readings, videos and accompanying texts) and the general ease of use really greatly facilitated the experience. Thank you!

I already knew (or hear about) the things that were discussed within this course, but as was said - knowing is NOT half the battle. I did not know how to apply it into my real life, not to just know it, but know how to use it, how to benefit from it. It helped me to realize things that can actually increase my everyday happiness, now it is up to me and only me to start using them. The course is very well prepared and fun to do.

Really enjoyed this. I've registered for quite a few MOOCs in the past that have been dull, but this felt really interactive and personal, and was packed with interesting information. I have a PhD in psychology, so I knew some of it, but still learnt lots, and as Laurie points out, even those of us with broad knowledge about research on wellbeing still don't implement it as much as we should. I think I've improved at doing so.

This course allowed me to look into my soul and evaluate what I really needed to be happy and what I found out was that all I really needed was to stop comparing myself to others. I come from a family that showed little love and was taught from day 1 that "Little Girls were meant to be seen not heard." I realize now that this is me and I need to love me and love my life, it doesn't matter what other people think. Thank you.

I was a little skeptical al the begining because I didn't inderstand how anyone could meassure your level of happiness without being in your own shoes. This course showed me, through Scientfic findings and Statistical Data, tha happiness can be achieved or improved by folliwing simple steps and stying comitted. Kudos to Lauri Santos and her collaborators, for making this course available for free during the covid-19 pandemic.

I really enjoyed this course and was amazed at the structure, content and references presented. The course helped me understand life is not as challenging as it may seem. COVID definitely threw a loop in everyone's responsibility as focus especially with life in general.

In my opinion, this course made me a happier non-negative person and taught positive techniques and ways to reflect on the personal well being of ones self.

I highly recommend this course! I couldn't have taken it at a better time as we've been facing stay-at-home orders due to Covid-19 and I'm also on a medical leave from work. Practicing my rewirements and intentionally doing things that support my well-being and happiness are vital at this time in my life. I would recommend this course to anyone who needs a gentle reminder of how to find the positives/happiness around you.

I really appreciated the opportunity to better understand the research behind what actually makes us happier, and what we think will make us happier but doesn't. So many of the lecture themes pop up in my head now day to day and prompt me to make different decisions than I was making before the course. Many thanks to Professor Santos for creating this course and sharing these strategies for well-being with more of the world!

I thought this was just like other basic courses, I thought I already knew all those things from "The subtle of not giving a fuck" . But this course is on another level. I highly recommend it to everyone. You all deserve to live a peaceful and happy life. You all badly need to get out of that stressful shell of yours and start living today. I wish everyone happiness and love. Thank you for designing such a beautiful course.

This course allowed me to completely rewiring my definition of success and happiness. Rather than comparing myself to others who post their successes on social media, I can create my own sense of happiness through meditation and acts of kindness. My happiness isn't defined by the size of my house or the brand of my car, it is defined by the experiences I've created with my family, friends, and sometimes, complete strangers,