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Self-paced online course
The Science of Sustainable Happiness
Build a better life — not just a better mood.
Four weeks on what raises wellbeing and keeps it raised. Each week is a short set of lessons, one practice to run for seven days, and a workbook page to fill in — so the course leaves you with a habit rather than a set of notes.
- 13 lessons across four weeks
- A printable workbook for each week's practice
- Certificate on completion
- Watch on any device, forever
- Where wellbeing actually comes from, and why willpower is the wrong lever
- A weekly practice you keep after the course ends
- Tools for attention, relationships, recovery and meaning
- Lifetime access, at your own pace
Happiness research has a reputation problem: the findings are real, the popular retellings are not. This course stays with what replicates — attention, relationships, recovery and meaning — and builds a weekly practice out of it.
By the end you will have run each practice for a full week and know which ones are yours to keep.
Week 01 — The baseline
Where wellbeing actually comes from, and why willpower is the wrong lever.
Week 02 — Attention
Training what you notice, and what that does to how a day feels.
Week 03 — People
The relationships that carry wellbeing, and how to invest in them on purpose.
Week 04 — Meaning
Building a life that holds together when circumstances do not.
What is inside
01
Week 01 — The baseline
4 lessons- videoWelcome, and how to use this courseWhat the four weeks look like and what the workbook is for.
- contentWhere wellbeing actually comes fromGenes, circumstances and practice — and which of the three you can move.
- contentWhy willpower is the wrong leverEffort is a poor substitute for design.
- quizWhere are you starting from?A short self-assessment you will repeat in week four.
02
Week 02 — Attention
3 lessons- contentWhat you notice decides how the day feltAttention as the editor of experience.
- videoA ten-minute attention practiceGuided, and short enough to do daily.
- infographThe attention budgetWhere a typical day's attention actually goes.
03
Week 03 — People
3 lessons- contentThe relationships that carry wellbeingDepth beats breadth, and by a wide margin.
- contentHard conversations, handledA structure for the conversation you have been avoiding.
- quizYour circle, honestlyWho is actually in it, and who you are neglecting.
04
Week 04 — Meaning
3 lessons- contentBuilding a life that holds togetherMeaning as structure, not sentiment.
- videoYour practice from hereKeeping two practices and letting the rest go.
- The full workbookEvery week's pages in one printable file.