Yale's coursera "Science of Well-Being" course with Laurie Santos

PERMA (an acronym for Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment— the basic dimensions of psychological flourishing)...

Questionnaire... Use Your Strengths to Boost Happiness...

Americans Most Unhappy People in the World.

Martin Seligman, Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being - and how to Achieve Them (a fantastic overview of positive psychology from the father of this discipline)

Ed Diener, Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth (a nice introduction to the science of well-being from one of its pioneer

Ryan Niemiec & Robert McGrath, Power of Character Strengths: Activate and Ignite Your Positive Personality (an official guide on Character Strengths)

Daniel Lerner & Alan Schlechter, U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (and Life) (a book aimed towards undergraduates which covers many of the rewirements taught in this course)

Martin Seligman’s TED Talk - The new era of positive psychology

"Thwart Hedonic Adaptation" (explanation of savoring appears in the first 8 minutes of the video)

Learn more about the science of gratitude from expert Robert Emmons

Read Robert Emmons’ book on the science of gratitude

If you ask, for example, how important is it to develop a meaningful philosophy on life? Only about half of freshmen think that that's true. The interesting thing for me,
thinking about you guys today, and some of the problems you guys experience today, is that if you look at the rates from 1967, they're kind of flipped. So, only for about 40 percent of people thought you need to
be very well off financially back in the 60s. But a lot of them thought you needed to develop a meaningful philosophy on life. So, again this interesting flip about how important finances are. And that raises this question about whether or not, money is really going to make us happier? ...