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Success

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.

Status: Self-Awareness
Status: Growth Mindedness
BeginnerCourse14 hours

Featured reviews

SK

5.0Reviewed Dec 7, 2024

I Loved Many Teachings of The Success Course. Professor Shell is Excellent. I Learnt many Things From Him. The Teachings I Learnt From The Success are For Life-Long. Thank You.

AI

5.0Reviewed Mar 29, 2017

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.

FF

5.0Reviewed Sep 10, 2020

I really enjoyed this course and got a lot out of it personally. It helped me to rethink what personal success is and sparked good conversations with my husband. Thank you!

LY

5.0Reviewed Aug 20, 2020

Extremely useful course to help take a step back to fully understand the meaning of Success. Provides helpful tools to understand who we are and what truly matters. Highly recommended!

MS

5.0Reviewed Mar 22, 2021

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.

MG

5.0Reviewed Oct 16, 2023

Key takeaway in this course: You are the one who will define what success means to you, and to develop a plan for achieving it. Thank you Professor Shell for sharing your wisdom!

JC

5.0Reviewed Jun 11, 2019

I didn't think I would enjoy or benefit from this module but I was completely wrong. This gave me a solid reinforcement of what makes a person happy, and that is a success to me.

SM

5.0Reviewed Jun 9, 2020

Excellent course gives you the tools and ideas to think deeply about how you define success and set you on a solid path to achieving your greatest professional and personal success possible.

CH

5.0Reviewed Jan 3, 2021

Very enjoyable course - a good balance of video content and assignments. Facilitator was superb with a mix of personal stories and new ideas.Would recommend it to friends and family.

KK

5.0Reviewed Apr 14, 2023

This course was fantastic! I highly recommended this to everyone. I felt that I have grown due to this course, and I wish it had been required in either my undergraduate or graduate schools.

GS

4.0Reviewed Apr 28, 2020

Interesting but a little too squishy and personal for my taste. It leads to some helpful introspection but not anything I can directly apply to my career and life.

RS

5.0Reviewed Jan 28, 2021

I really enjoyed how the professor pushed us to really look inside ourselves to define what success means. I am definitely more aware of what I want to do with my future.

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