It's been a wonderful experience to get to know what empirical sciences have to say about Happiness. The course has cleared some of the fundamental myths of living a happy life. I would say that it's a must for those who are at the threshold of taking imp career decisions. It's been amazing experience to attend the course under the guidance of Prof. Santos.

The best thing about this course is that it will undoubtedly benefit anyone in some way. It doesn't matter where you are in your life's journey, the principles of happiness taught in this course will help you to make actionable changes in your life to improve your happiness.

Super interesting insights from Professor Santos. The course is an interesting curation of different behavioral and psychological studies on different aspects of life. Great for rethinking goals, prioritizing and having self-accountability.

I enjoyed the taught content and was particularly impressed by the integration of real life experiential stuff and habit change. The scope of wellbeing practices was pretty broad, though could have been broader.

What an enlightening course! This field should be way more hyped in this century. Even though it's a recording of lectures, it doesn't lose its appeal and engagement.

This course gives is a good balance of scientific information and also the ability to use the skills given to better improve your everyday well being.

Great sections on the misconceptions we all have about wellbeing, strategies for improving wellbeing and helping to build better habits.

Science showed that we can build habits to improve our well-being. It just takes practice and persistence.

Very helpful!

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I have learnt a lot during week 1-5, I think there could be more in week 6-10. I feel the course is more individual-focused. Given we are the product of our time and socially constructed, the concept of happiness may be a bit passive in this module. For example, how can we better pay inequality by being happy with young people's struggle? In an area, winner -take-all economy, capital controllers leverage their assets, market globally and amass more wealth than any group in human history (Obama, 2020), it will be good to take a critical view on things we should put up by individually effort (week 1-5) and things we should change.

I'm extremely upset right now. This class was originally free, but my husband was told if we paid for it I would receive credits. I would never have spent the amount of time I did on this class or the money had I known I would not receive any credits for this class. I am extremely upset. I have tried to find a phone number and I have looked for an email, but I have not located one yet.

Could someone please help me complete this course?! It states that I am at 94% completed? I was alerted that I couldn't do the post assessments due to my only having a phone to use? Is there anything else I can do to complete this course?! Thanks in advance.

I enjoyed the course! I just got stumped by the unfinished part of my course!

Was good. There were a lot of points I already knew from basic youtube videos but there were also some new points about well being and positive psychology. The course doesn't go super in depth but I would say it's worth getting into especially if you're completely new to the concept of positive psychology.

Good insights, the professor keeps skipping things she told she would talk about, and she keeps changing one subject to another that makes it hard to grasp the concepts clearly!

interesting course, good "life work" to help you build positive habits of mind. Would have preferred more guided online conversations amongst participants.

The course should be based on a global culture, more generic and not so close to American culture and American authors.

In my opinion the teacher kept the same pace and voice, which made the course a little boring.

Content pretty boring and only somewhat helpful

Nothing new as far as the educational approach. A nice compilation of data. Peer Review Assignment at the end left a lot to be desired. No quality feedback, real one on one with the educator due to the sheer volume/magnitude of the course. Guest videos were almost like salesmen with their published data.

I found a lot of it to be common knowledge and not the sort of wellbeing I was hoping for. I'm glad I've completed it but I didn't enjoy the lectures. I found them too clinical in terms of research and I found the lecturer too casual in her approach.

This course is so messed up , why is it that a person have to pay for a certificate when they stated that the courses are free

I t became confusing. The professor talked to fast.. never pausing. Nonstop.

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I was pleased to see a formal course on "well-being" offered by Yale and think this focus is so important for individuals. I truly hope for the many leaving positive reviews this course changed their lives for the better. However I have to say, a few modules in and I'm honestly shocked this course is from Yale and had to stop. There were so many flaws in the presentation that the opposite of learning and enlightenment was happening for me. I understand what the professor is attempting to do by presenting material in a casual way to be approachable for college students, but I really hope Yale students think more critically than the "facts" presented here and challenge her content. It was also worrisome that many of the pop-up questions during videos were testing my knowledge of this overly simplified material. (One example: "What percentage of your happiness is due to life circumstances? 10%, 20%, 40%, 60%" without appropriately framing the question). The professor makes blanket statements from "what the science shows," drawing some extreme comparisons and ignoring the population or possible explanations for correlations, instead focusing on causation without much critical thinking demonstrated. Even if this is a quick means of illustrating her point to segue into tools individuals can implement, the presentation is majorly flawed. What is the population focus here? Well-off college students? What is the message? I worry that the presentation of this content grossly ignores marginalized groups when illustrating the factors that dictate "happiness". She presents generalized findings as immediate truths using language like "right" "wrong" "proven" which is concerning. I couldn't make it to later modules that explain the "tools" that may indeed be helpful because the presentation to me is so poor. I'm very surprised by the insanely positive reviews and hope the college students in this course challenge presentations such as these more critically. Particularly if they not only want to obtain happiness from within, but have a better understanding of the world around them and the impacts of life experiences on other individuals. Perhaps a little harsh- but to me it presents like a guru that pulled a few studies she could use to support her self-help toolkit and tout a successful wellness course. Perhaps for some the later modules are life changing - but for me- yikes.