The Science of Well-Being

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Week 1

09-12-2023

PERMA

• Positive emotions = 8.33
• Engagement = 8.67
• Relationships = 8.33
• Meaning = 9.33
• Accomplishment = 8.67
• Health = 10
• Negative emotions = 6
• Loneliness = 4

Overall Well-Being = 8.75

Authentic Happiness Score is: 3.92

Week 2

What do you think will make you happy?

Reach my goals and eat dinner with my family every night

Week 3

Annoying features

Our minds’ strongest intuitions are often totally wrong

Our minds don’t think in terms of absolutes and judge relative to reference points

Our minds get used to stuff

We don’t realize that our minds get used to stuff

Week 4

Don’t invest in stuff in the first place

Invest in experiences

Thwart hedonic adaptation

• Savoring
• Gratitue
• Negative visualization
• Make this day last

Reset reference points

• Concretely re-experience
• Concretely observe
• Avoid social comparisons
• Interrupt consumption
• Increase variety

Week 5

Good job

• Signature strengths
• Increase flow

Good grades

• Growth mindset

Kindness

Social connection

Exercise

Sleep

meditation

time affluence

Week 6

Situation support

• Fix bad environments
• Promote healthy environments

Goal setting

• Goal specificity
• Goal visualization (mental contrasting)
• Goal planning (implementation intention)

Woop

• Wish
• Outcome
• Obstacles
• If-then plan

Week 10

01-01-2024

• Positive emotions = 9
• Engagement = 8.7
• Relationships = 9
• Meaning = 9
• Accomplishment = 9
• Health = 10
• Negative emotions = 4
• Loneliness = 4

Overall Well-Being = 9

Authentic Happiness Score is: 4.08

https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being/home/week/1