The Science of Success – Becoming Successful

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About Course

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.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Based on four of the most popular courses taught at the Wharton School, Achieving Personal and Professional Success is designed to introduce the tools and techniques for defining and achieving success at home and at work.
  • You'll learn how to find your passion and core values, how to apply these values to your own life, how to work well with others, how to communicate effectively, how to set goals, how to use influence to achieve these goals, and even how to say you are sorry.
  • Through exercises, self-diagnostic surveys, quizzes, and many case studies, you'll discover how to define not only what you want, but also the best way to get it. While many business courses cover topics related to successful organizational practices, these courses provide key insights into successful personal practices, whether you are in the office or in your home.
  • We all bring ourselves to work every day, and these courses will help you be your best self wherever you are.

Course Content

Week 1: Launching Your Personal Search for Success-Video Lectures, Part 1

  • 1.1 Introduction(video)
    02:54
  • 1.2 How to Use This Course(video)
    01:48
  • 1.3 Why This Course Will be Useful(video)
    02:00
  • 1.4 Why I Am Teaching This Course(video)
    02:21
  • 1.5 Three Truths About Success(video)
    05:16
  • 1.6 The Six Lives Exercise(video)
    02:33

Week 1: Six Lives Exercise and Discussion

Week 1: Video Lectures, Part 2

Week 2: How to Think About Success on Your Own Terms

Week 3: Diving Deep: What Research Tells Us About Achievement and Happiness

Week 3: SAME Personality Assessment Trait Exercise

Week 4: Putting it together

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