Do you want to be more successful? This course was designed to help you define what success means to you, and to develop a plan for achieving it. Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell, an award-winning author and the creator of the popular Wharton School course on the meaning of success, created this course to help you answer the questions that arise when you consider how best to use your life. Drawing on his decades of research and mentoring, Shell offers personalized assessments to help you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. He then combines these with the latest scientific insights on everything from self-confidence and happiness to relationships and careers. Throughout, he shares inspiring examples of people who found what they were meant to do by embracing their own true measure of success. Get ready for the journey of a lifetime—one that will help you reevaluate your future and envision success on your own terms. Students and executives say that Richard Shell’s courses and executive training programs have changed their lives. Let this course change yours.
This course is part of the Achieving Personal and Professional Success Specialization
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About this Course
Skills you will gain
- goal setting
- Happiness
- Personality Development
- Personal Development
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1: Launching Your Personal Search for Success
Week 2: How to Think About Success on Your Own Terms
Week 3: Diving Deeper: What Research Tells Us About Achievement and Happiness
Week 4: Putting it Together: Charting Your Path to the Future
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- 5 stars85.54%
- 4 stars10.79%
- 3 stars2.49%
- 2 stars0.62%
- 1 star0.53%
TOP REVIEWS FROM SUCCESS
The most important and interesting part of this course is the six lives experience, which motivates different ways from the various life experiences and styles.
After this course I was able at least to formulate these ideas on paper and tried to work out the plan. I think this is not the final action list, I can add more in future.
Very nice course. Good for people to understand why to do the things they do, and why they may want to analyze or understand if they need to change what they do.
I loved this course! It has been the best one I've taken on Coursera yet. It was an honor to learn from Richard Shell. I think this course can benefit anyone at any point in their life!
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