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Yale Offers A Free Online Course In Happiness

Yale Offers A Free Online Course In Happiness

With everyone quarantined due to the COVID-19 virus, a free online "Happiness" class could not come at a better time than right now.

According to CNN, Yale University's mega-popular "happiness" course is available for free online through Coursera.

Course creator Laurie Santos, a Yale psychology professor, told CNN, "We're in a particularly challenging time not just for this health crisis, this physical health crisis, but also a potential mental health crisis as well."

She explained, "Our minds lie to us all the time. We miswant things. We think we need to change our life circumstances to become happier. What plays a much bigger role are our simple practices, simple acts like making a social connection, or taking time for gratitude, or taking time to be in the present moment. Many people mistakenly believe happiness is just around the corner if we land a better job, find a more attractive mate, or buy a bigger house. But the neuroscience literature doesn't back that up."

Santos added, "Happiness and contentedness stem from repeatedly doing simple tasks, rather than herculean ones. I take the science of happiness as giving us a lot of good news."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.