I love it. The theories and data are impressive and very well explained but I can't wait to start my 4 week rewirement commitment. I will work hard to make it happen. See you on the other side :)

Four weeks after I can say that I am still very impressed but mostly grateful to this course. I'll do my best to keep up with the work and find new strategies to make every day of my life a bit happier.

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Great class that really pushes you to understand why and what is truly important in life. As someone in their early 50s, I've already lived life enough to know most of this (plus, I'm not a materialist individual) However, to get the stats and details behind it + take the tests to better understand my strengths was invaluable. I believe anyone can benefit from this class and it's worth completing.

This was a great course taught by smart, engaging and funny Professor Laurie Santos. We learned about the different scientific psychological studies that have been done about well-being and happiness. We also had to practice some of the tools and mind rewirements to help us understand how to have more joy and well-being in our lives. I feel very enriched and fulfilled from this experience. Thank you!

This is a great first step in the path to greater joy. I highly recommend taking the course, but also living it. Finding the life that’s right for you takes some work and likely requires some uncomfortable reflection. I had to make a hard decision or two to find my happiness, as well. Stick with it. Random people comment on how much happier I seem without even knowing about the course. It’s amazing.

Great course, but I wouldn't even call it that, it is so much more! It is a lesson in well-being, a life coach if you will.

The teacher is very engaging, the materials are enjoyable and easy to go through, the assignments are accessible and the overall experience is a very positive one. No wonder that my tested happiness scores have increased since taking and commiting to this rewirement journey!

I found this course to be so helpful when it comes to looking at well-being, the ways it can be affecting and the strategies you can put in place to improve your own well-being. I know that my own happiness has improve since taking the course. I really appreciate how the course flowed, setting up questions and answering them in-depth allowed me to fully grasp the concepts that were being discussed.

This is a well-structured, timely, and impactful course that details the obstacles we face on the road to achieving happiness and, more importantly, how to overcome them. I learned to modify my perspective, develop helpful habits and methods, and why these are needed. Thank you, Dr Santos and Coursera for making this information available to everyone. I hope others benefit from it as much as I did!

An amazing journey I never imagined I could take by other means. Definitely I will encourage my family members, spouse, son and daughter and my other beloved relatives to take this course, so we all can share positive and thoughtful new strategies to navigate this world's unchartered waters coming ahead. Thanks Dr. L Santos and also thanks to Yale U. My deepest and sincere respects fro you both.

This course opened my eyes how powerful tool mind is. It has the power of blocking our potential or allowing us to soar to possibilities beyond our wildest dreams. Prof. Laurie Santos has been so inspiring and encouraging that being able to achieve so much of this course is mostly because of her. I have enjoyed a lot of my journey and will keep on learning much more about well-being and happiness!

Thanks Laura for her enthusiasm in delivering the course. And thanks for the aid provided by Coursera during the pandemic help me to access the most popular class in Yale University. I enjoyed the class and content and make the science into practice. I start the habit of the gratitude journal and exercises during this course period which boost my happiness level. I think it's only a beginning.

Professor Santos is a terrific teacher. Great communication style.

The substance of this course is top-notch. Definitely worth the time! The main difference between this course and most others - the focus on application, not simply understanding the concepts. I can tell that Professor Santos cares about people being happier and am grateful to have had the chance to learn from her! Thank you!

This was a great course...I appreciate that everything was backed by science. The one thing I wish is that they did a better job surveying users to understand other external factors that may be impacting happiness before and during the course since that could affect the happiness scores. But aside from that, I think it was really well done and I'm glad i took this course. Thank you Dr. Santos!

I love everything is scientifically based. Happiness is really one quality of life measures that people ignore, as it is hard to describe it, so we end up using external circumstances to describe our own happiness (ie money, grade, car etc). But this course has taught me the happiness is how you see the the world, rather than how the world sees you. Thank you for putting this course together.

This was an outstanding course taught by an inspiring professor. It was a worthwhile experience, and I learned and put into practice skills that I definitely plan to continue using. In this morning's Wall Street Journal, there was an editorial titled "The Future of U. S. Higher Education: A Few Stars, Many Satellites. It referenced Dr. Santos and this course. Dr. Santos is absolutely a star!

Thank you for a great course. It was wonderful to be engaged in learning the science behind what makes us happier in our lives. I loved how every bit of info that sounded wonky was backed up with concrete data to prove your point. Kudos Professor Santos for helping young college students (and others) realize life is full of wonderful things beyond good grades, social media and a lucrative job.

Loved this course. It explains using data from studies, how what we think will make us happy, does not necessarily do so. It then goes into what you can do to improve your contentment in life. The course is well organized and Laurie Santos presents short videos so its easy for busy working people to keep up with the classes. She is a good presenter. Thank you for making this awesome course free.

I took the course at the start of my quarantine and was not in a place of well-being. By the end of the course, I learned a lot about my misconceptions about happiness. I also learned a lot about myself and adopted good work habits in completing assignments. Professor Santos delivered excellent lectures and was encouraging and supportive throughout the course! I highly recommend this course.

Thank you for your work and your honesty while lecturing throughout the course. You provided us with a wealth of information and research to validate the work. I'm very interested in this work and wish I had learned about these types of efforts much earlier in my career. I'm glad I discovered this chance and hope to pursue other similar options. Appreciated what I've gained from this experience.

I really loved this course, all the topics studied were very enriching. I learned from the real science that exists behind such small things like be grateful to more familiar topics such exercising. I recommend this course to anyone who wants to find a more academic reason to change their habits.

Also, the instructor Santos is an excellent teacher and has a very warm approach with all students.

This course aboslutely changed my life. I am a physician and decided that more physicians need something like this geared toward our daily lives. I am planning to share this informaiton with others in my field because of this course. Thanks for making this course easy to learn. Especially loved the assignements and the personal interactions in the videos to engage questions, etc. Thanks again!

This amazing course has taught me about things that really matter to me. I especially liked to learn about things that don't make us happy (though we think they do) and things that do make us happy (and why it takes intentional effort to commit to these new habits). The icing on the cake were the nudges and support strategies to really commit to the changes I liked to make in my daily routines.

Thoroughly enjoyable and lived up to the hype from others. I believe that I took a lot out of the classes, developing much stronger awareness of existing habits, as well as starting to develop some new ones. I hope to continue to be able to learn from and reflect from the teachings and literature underpinning this topic going forward. Many thanks to everyone involved in producing this course :)

I am really thank you a lot for this course. It helped me so much for changed my bad habit and making up my life even my mind to. I know how to enjoy my time from a little thing and spend more time on myself instead of the internet. The course will show you how is the result when you staring until you finish it step by step and you can see how to change and make you be happier. Highly recommend

This was an awesome course. The Professor is amazing, here style of teaching, warmth and delivery, makes you want to listen to her all day. I highly recommend this course. I'm old(er), I was not really sure I had the capacity for coursework any longer, but I did it, and I loved it. Don't doubt your capacity, and if you think you could be happier or enjoy life even a bit more, take this course.

This course was so interesting. I enjoyed finding out a bout the research and then seeing how that can be put into practise to build a happier life. There are things in here that you have heard you should take time to do like gratitude that finally make sense. The lecturer makes the content interesting and relevant. This was my first online course and it has made me want to do more...thank you.