[tnegoshi]

Hmm, I agree the article was uninspiring.

I looked into the course a bit more though and one of the first lectures addresses this preconception people seem to go into the course with in what the professor calls the "GI Joe Fallacy." She refers to it as "this mistaken idea that knowing is half the battle."

There will undoubtedly be behavioral practices or studies in positive psychology you may have come across before, but there is a difference in knowing those things vs. putting them to use through conscious, habitual effort.

I can't speak to how good the course is on that type of learned discipline, but it might be worth another go if you were interested enough to read the article.