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The Science of Well-Being
Coursera
9 recommenders · 9 threads · recommended in 4 years, 2019–2024 · score 8.9
An introductory positive psychology course from Yale, taught by Laurie Santos, on what psychological research says about happiness and strategies for a fulfilling life. It is offered as a MOOC on Coursera.
Commenters call it an amazing, highly recommended course that covers a lot of happiness research and is free on Coursera.
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A very good resource that delves deeper into this is The Science of Well-Being course on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being) by Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist and professor of psychology at Yale University. Highly recommended.
There is an amazing course on happiness from Yale: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
I've heard about something similar in The Science of Well Being course (currently free on coursera, highly recommend.
I remember these as "if-then rules" for the mind. If you have some complicated challenge ahead you can mentally prepare for it thinking about the goal, then about how great it will be to achieve it and then about potential challenges and problems. You can set these rules ahead before you start. So when the need occurs it will take less effort for the mind to follow up (as you have some rules in place for the situation already)
I went through this course, the Yale Course on Happiness, a couple years ago. I think it is really valuable for understanding what will bring us happiness and/or inner peace. I was told I was very smart when I was young and as it has turned out, at least at programming, I'm not that great. (I retired a year and a half ago). I think a lot of people are working as hard as they can, and trying to act like they're not. The people you're comparing yourself to may be working as hard as you are. I think the happiness course is really good though, here's the link: https://online.yale.edu/courses/science-well-being
What does the word "teaching" mean in the context of this post?
Writing blog posts?
If you want to learn about moral/life philosophy, then there are some great free courses on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities
https://www.coursera.org/learn/moral-politics
If someone else wants to read Paul Graham's blog I do not see the issue...
The Science of Well Being. A great course about how psychologists research human happiness and what the current state of the art suggests are the best strategies for leading a fulfilling life.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
While not directly related to programming I'm currently doing The science of wellbeing https://www.coursera.org/lecture/the-science-of-well-being/b... and would definitely recommend it.
I loved this MOOC, which covers a lot of the research on happiness:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/happiness
Going to recommend the most widely taken course at Yale at the moment, which fortunately is now available as a MOOC on coursera, "The Science of Well Being": https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
This is a positive psychology course based on work by Seligman et al.