I really enjoyed this class. I took it seriously and it helped me with a lot of personal decisions. I am retired but facing difficult choices and trying to determine their worth is no walk in the park. I am really glad I took it and on a personal level it helped me make a choice that I could be comfortable with. Highly recommend.

If you've found yourself reflecting more on overall happiness and life meaning since the pandemic especially, Professor Santos will definitely guide you with scientific evidence based advice on how to make the right changes to your everyday routine to bring well-being to both yourself and whoever is lucky to be a part of your journey.

Thank you Laurie Santos Ma'am for imparting the secrets to a happy life . I have thoroughly enjoyed learning from you and the guest speakers. Your lessons have impacted my life in a more meaningful way. I wish many others would opt for this course and lead a happy life. Thank you very much and Take care :)

Best Regards

Snigdha M Tamhane

I highly recommend this course to everyone! The lecturer is super engaging and she delivered her lessons with so much clarity and relevance. I loved the research-backed aspect of this course. It really helped with my understanding and ultimately the practise of the strategies to put in place in order to really be happy. Thanks Laurie!

She's a good communicator! The course was science-based and filled with loads of practical strategies for all of us to use and apply to increase our happiness and enhance our well-being. I've learned a lot; I have plenty of tools to use. My happiness measurement score will continue to slowly increase if I do the work. Thank you!

I think that I'd love to retake this course when life feels more stable and balanced. I think that all of the weeks are so helpful and I plan to keep using the ReWi app but I think the perspective of being out of a job during a pandemic puts a very different spin on results and the way we relate to the different steps to Happiness :)

Laurie, you are amazing! Thank you for sharing so much "science" on what it takes to become truly happy. I am a veteran Middle School Science teacher and semi-retired. I loved the opportunity to become a student again. You are fantastic educator! My wife and I so enjoyed this course. Peace and Hope, Steve Sieg (Portland, Oregon)

This course gave me wonderful insights into strategies for hat enhance and extend moments of happiness. As a coach, I am able to ask the right questions and facilitate steps towards finding client’s true values and goals that will not only help them to become best versions of themselves but live a fulfilled life in the present moment.

In my case my work no longer gave me any satisfaction and through the course I was able to not only work on why I choose this career but it went further to help me personally to grow and be a better person. Thank you very much for showing me what I needed to change and how to use the tools provided in the class to have a happier life

Changed my mind. I stopped focusing on wrong targets such as awesome stuff, lots of money, good job aso. Now I focus on things, which really make me happy, e.g. savoring, gratitude, kindness, social connection, time affluence, healthy practices (exercise and sleep) and reflextion/meditation. Thanks a lot - highly recommended course!

It is a highly recommended course, both for people and students who work in the field of psychology or human sciences as well as for any type of person. The fact that the information, techniques and strategies in this course help you to improve your subjective state of well-being and happiness is a compelling enough reason to enroll.

This course is a wonderful experiment in improving the happiness of students who take the course. I learned a lot and the course is backed with good science. If you think you can improve your live, you should take this course. My main take away from this course was gratitude journaling and a small improvement to my overall happiness.

I didn't know what to expect from this course but I have to say that it has been wonderful week after week learning all these new tools to becoming a happier person. It takes patience and practice but I am positive I will be able to take some of the thing that I have learned into my daily life and be a happier person because of them.

This is an excellent, science-based, approach to increasing personal happiness. The lectures are informative and engaging. I especially liked that the lectures were recorded in person with a live class, because I find that this is much more effective in communicating ideas compared to when a teacher is reading a script to a camera.

The course really helps you to form healthy habits that you have been wanting to implement in your life, it teaches and encourages you to make the time, it teaches prioritising things that personally make you happy, it teaches that sometimes it’s okay to choose sleep over cramming for an exam, or seeing friends over doing home work.

I always considered myself a happy person but this class has made me even happier. It reinforced some concepts I have heard elsewhere (meditate, workout, be grateful) and introduced me to new concepts (taking time people on Bart. Still hard to believe but will try it). Recommended to many friends and family members. May take again n

It was a life changer. I used to life live missing the important moments because I was so busy. Now I savor every day and enjoy life. I will never go back to not appreciating life again. My happiness level is so much higher than before. I am even teaching my two middle schoolers what I learned, I totally recommend this course.

This course has been truly fascinating. Not only did I learn a great deal of information about what drives happiness (I loved the lecture on neuroscience) but the course provided the tools and strategies to help identify and establish new habits. Prof. Santos is an engaging and relatable lecturer which made the course even more fun.

HI Laurie Santos,

I can't thank you enough. While taking this course I did a few changes in all aspects of my life and my happiness and sense of contentment have drastically improved. As per the test we take my points were in around 5 which are ow bumped up by 3 points almost in all areas. Again thanks a lot for offering this course.

I am loving the course. It's structured nicely with a mix of examples, practical ideas to test out, reasons behind the suggestions. The professor is engaging and knowledgeable. I appreciate her honesty of, "I am not an expert here and the reason/example of why this is okay." I appreciate that this is available to the general public.

I absolutely loved it and would recommend it to everybody ("even if they think they're doing well enough"), the open interactions made me feel like I was a part of the actual class.

Thank you so much Prof. Santos and everyone involved in putting this together, and ofcourse Coursera for providing this.

Thanks all!

Life saver course!

Great material and a well paced course. I was engaged by the very human academic from the word go and found the way she introduced and then analysed topics fascinating. Great throughout. Also as a facilitator myself I have learned a few things both from her and also from the simple yet effective the way the course was presented.

I really liked the Science of Well-Being course. As a scientist, I was surprise how much effort was made to explore a topic such as happiness and how to increase it. Laurey gave very interesting lessons and I feel as I was almost in the room with her. I also really like a lot the "no wrong answer for this question" within the test.

I Love this course. It really gets me to thinking of all factors in life, how and what minor changes need to be made to help us perceive the world in a better form/state. Congratulations on the article about you on the Oprah Magazine, July 2018 edition. I commend and applaud all that you are doing to make this world a better place!

This course increased my happiness and life satisfaction. I highly recommend it! I learned to commit to more reasonable goals, and the ReWi app helps me stay on track. I also learned that I can meditate and it does help me in many ways. I plan to keep using these techniques, including the powerful WOOP technique, in my daily life.