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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Finding Purpose and Meaning In Life: Living for What Matters Most by University of Michigan

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    About the Course

    Welcome to Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life: Living for What Matters Most! In this course, you’ll learn how science, philosophy and
    practice all play a role in both finding your purpose and living a purposeful life. You will hear from historical figures and individuals about their
    journeys to finding and living a purposeful life, and will walk through different exercises to help you find out what matters most to you so you
    can live a purposeful life. As an added benefit, you will also have complimentary access, for a period of time, to the Purposeful App. This
    groundbreaking mobile and desktop app is designed to help you build a purposeful rhythm into each day, so you can bring yo...
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    Jun 24, 2021

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    I abolutely loved this. It has helped me tremendously in my understanding of self and setting a personal transcending purpose. And Vic, thank you for sharing your story. It made me tear up at the end.

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    May 19, 2020

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    I found this course beneficial in focusing my thinking about what is and should be important to me in life. Taking a self-critical approach to this issue has been difficult but revealing and freeing

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    Feb 6, 2023

    Interesting in parts, but I didn't get out of it what I hoped, which is how to make big decisions in life based on your purpose. Focus was more on small daily habits. Also, professor plugs his own commercial app in every video, so it makes it seem as much like an advertisement for his paid app as anything else.

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    Jul 31, 2022

    This course should change it's title. It's not as much about finding your purpose as it is discussing how important purpose is in our lives. It's interesting and provides some useful tools IF you already have a purpose, but if you're attempting to discover your purpose, you will find it lacking.

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    Jul 6, 2024

    Science is not very sound here, especially when they get to explaining data. Statistics that don't account for all the factors, like, idk, GENETICS when it comes to old age issues are trash. So this course is pretty meh. I still don't know what my core beliefs are 🤷🏻♀️

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    Jan 2, 2025

    I wanted to use the purposeful app along the course, but I could not setup an account as I needed an invitation from the company that created the app.

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    Oct 28, 2021

    It was a fun experience . the nice thing about the questions was that they were direct and easy , mostly used my common information to answer.

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    Aug 18, 2024

    The most useful part I found was the questions that lead to defining your own goals (be goal - do goal - action goal).

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    By Zheng M W

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    Dec 21, 2021

    good but not allow us the complete the course without upgrade, that is bit funny.

    pls make some improvment here

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    By Edith

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    Jun 21, 2020

    Good introductory course with some practical ideas on how to build a stronger sense of purpose in life.

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    Feb 24, 2022

    I couldnt send the exams . I have to buy the course.

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    By Mehul S

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    Oct 22, 2024

    Indian context is required

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    By reyhane k

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    Aug 28, 2022

    it was not very compelet

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    Jun 30, 2023

    good.

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    May 29, 2023

    grEAT

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    Jun 21, 2021

    Being somewhat flittering about like a feather in a breeze, the course title lead me to believe that it would, in some fashion, provide a guide that might help me find my way ... it did not. It talks about the value of purpose, the different "types" or categories of purpose, as well as a number of other purpose-related topics but comes nowhere near to providing a means for someone who feels purposeless, to help that person find a purpose. The course title needs to be re-named to accurately reflect the content, or the content changed to accurately reflect the intention of the title of "finding a purpose ..."

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    Mar 22, 2022

    Lots of inapprioriate content. "By the time he was 12, both of his parents had died. He was called an AIDS orphan by many people, although I don't think he really likes that term. But as an AIDS orphan, he..."

    Lots of references to Christianity.

    One of his examples suggests "losing weight" as a way to achieve the goal of "finding a partner."

    This course is by and for old out-of-touch white guys who do not want their assumptions challenged.

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    Oct 7, 2020

    I don't want to show off but I just went to the tests and passed... Everything said in the videos are logical... I didn't find purpose not meaning in life except what you hear already everywhere....

    A bit disappointed I lost £36 for that...

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    Aug 19, 2024

    terribles traducciones

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    By Dean J

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    Jul 25, 2022

    The free audit version of the course does not allow me to complete the course. THe four graded quizzes require an upgrade for $49. Please advise how I can complete the course using the free audit version.

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    Jun 20, 2022

    I was dissapointed, the course is expected to be for FREE, however they intend to charge 50USD p/Assessment. This seems abusive. I have also received offensive/abusive content related to this course.

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    Sep 28, 2022

    The intergration and talking about an app I do not have and can not get access to ( I attempted after the first week) was frustrating. It was an okay course, but the intergration felt like an ad.

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    May 20, 2024

    It is not mentioned to pay and continue. After completing 30% it is prompted to pay to continue. Its not fair

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    By Katherine R

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    May 3, 2021

    This is a sales pitch for a software app and written material.

    The UNENROLL DOES NOT WORK!.

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    Aug 7, 2023

    Not what I expected. It was too theoretical, abstract and cumbersome for my liking.

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