Teen Happiness

I haven’t seen the content of the course so can’t provide a review, but it looks like it could be helpful for some of our college-anxious kids.

This part of the description particularly struck me:

Lesson No. 1, she preaches in one of the course’s pre-recorded lectures: Our brains lie to us about what makes us happy.

“For adults, this may mean pursuing money or success at work, and for teens this might mean focusing on the perfect grades and getting into the best colleges,” Santos tells CNBC Make It. “The problem isn’t that we’re not putting work into feeling better — it’s that we’re doing the wrong things, prioritizing the wrong behaviors.”

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