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How to be Happy: Life System Design

Increase your mental game and emotional intelligence for a happier life. This step-by-step guide will teach you 12 new life systems from scratch and help you build them into lasting habits so that you can be more effective, efficient, and happier. Advance your career, your life, and have fun along the way!

2 hours 1 project 12 + lessons

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12 Months

Average time students take to complete this course.

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Taught by: Andrei Neagoie
Last updated: April 2026
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What you'll learn

  • Become stronger mentally and increase your emotional intelligence
  • 12 systems to incorporate in your life to become a happier person
  • Learn best practices from renowned experts to improve your mental wellbeing
  • Become the better version of you

Can A Course Make You Happier?

You see, being happy doesn’t mean being fake and pretending that everything around you is good. It simply means having the right mindset and systems in place to react well to the good and the bad.

This is what Life System Design means: strengthening your mental game to improve the way you react to life.

You can train your mind to have that strength. It’s a skill and just like everything we do here at ZTM, we believe that our brains are malleable and we can always learn new skills to become better humans. This course will teach you to have the resilience during the bad times, and to have the confidence during the good times. Is there a way to engineer happiness? We think there is.

You may think this is all cheesy. You may think this is an unattainable goal. Well, this is where you're going to have to make a choice:

Those that believe happiness can be worked on, are those that are going to make changes in their lives to experience life in a better way. If you can decide right now that this is something that you CAN change and you CAN improve, then this is the course for you. Remember: the course isn’t for everyone. If you are not in the right mindset, if you have too much going on in your life, if you aren’t willing to put in the work and make improvements, and If you don’t believe things can change, then this isn’t for you.

However, if you're willing to feel vulnerable. If you're willing to examine your life. If you're willing to dedicate yourself to make changes to become better. Then this course is for you.

So What is Your Choice?

...you still here? Great. This is how it’s going to work.

This course teaches you 12 systems to live by. That’s right, 12 systems and 12 lessons. Learn and implement one system per month.

Why only one lesson per month? Because it takes 30 days to form a new habit, so you'll focus on implementing the system into your life and making it into a habit.

Once you've mastered the new system, you'll be ready to move on to the next.

Think of it like year-long set of 30 Day Challenges.

At the end of the year, these 12 systems will be part of your life. You will internalize them. Your mind will become stronger and you will become happier.

Yes, it’s going to take a whole year. But who said being happy was going to be easy?

Ok now...are you ready to change your life?

Let’s begin.

Why Learn With ZTM?

The success stories speak for themselves.

Graduates of Zero To Mastery are now working at Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Uber, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies. They are also working as top freelancers getting paid while working remotely around the world. This can be you.

By enrolling today, you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom to learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Most importantly, you'll learn from a senior industry professional that has actual real-world experience and is a thought leader in their field.

And you have nothing to lose. You can start learning right now and if this course isn't everything you expected, we'll refund you 100% within 30 days. No hassles and no questions asked.

Who You Will Learn With

You're getting more than just a course

Our instructors, TAs, Mentors, Alumni, and fellow students go above and beyond to help guide you and ensure you're on the right path to achieve your goals. Our private ZTM Discord server is a key factor in taking your skills, confidence and career to the next level.

Learn & Implement New Life Systems Each Month

12 new life systems to help you engineer happiness. 12 lessons. 12 months. Each month you'll be taught a new life system and challenged to implement it for 30 days before moving on to the next.

Course curriculum

To make sure this course is a good fit for you, you can start learning Life System Design for free right now by clicking any of the PREVIEW links below.

13 sections12 lessons2 hours total length

Introduction

3 lectures · 6min
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Introduction to Life System Design·6:01

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How To Take This Course (MUST READ)

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Taking on the 12 Month Challenge

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Who is Zero To Mastery for?

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You're struggling to make progress using free tutorials that aren't giving you the structure or clear path to achieving your goals.
You don't want to learn alone. You want personalized feedback, support, and motivation from instructors and mentors and want to be part of a supportive community of like-minded individuals.
You want to learn by doing. You're excited to embrace the struggle of making mistakes that comes with building fun real-world projects you'll be proud of.
You're sick of outdated & boring tutorials. We pride ourselves on having the most up-to-date (and fun!) courses in the industry so that you're not wasting your time and only learning what matters right now.
You can't afford to spend $8,000+ on over priced bootcamps and colleges. We got you. We'll help you go from zero to hired for less than the cost of a cup of coffee a day.

We're not for you if:

You're just going to watch the lessons and take no action. Our courses are all about getting your hands dirty with exercises and putting what you're learning into action by building fun and impressive real-world projects.
You're not ready to invest in yourself or just looking for the cheapest way to learn. If that's you, no problem, use our free Learn to Code + AI & Get Hired guide.
You don't think fundamentals matter anymore because AI can do everything for you. Understanding the fundamentals and how things really work will always be important.
You think AI is going to replace you and think there's nothing you can do about it. Well... if you keep wasting time not learning AI tools & skills, you're probably right. Or you embrace them, and 2x your productivity (and probably income too!).

Meet your instructor

Your Life System Design instructor (Andrei) isn't just an expert with years of real-world professional experience. He is the Founder & Lead Instructor of Zero To Mastery. He has been in your shoes. He makes complex concepts feel simple. He will motivate you. He will push you. And he will go above and beyond to help you become better.

Andrei Neagoie

Hi, I'm Andrei Neagoie!

Andrei, lead instructor of Zero To Mastery Academy, has taught 1,000,000+ students worldwide how to code and get hired. ZTM grads work for world-class companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Tesla, IBM, Facebook, Shopify and many more.

SEE MY BIO & COURSES

Andrei Neagoie

Senior Software Engineer

Frequently Asked Questions

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

  • A willingness and enthusiasm to become a better version of you

Who is this course for?

  • Anyone who wants to learn and implement systems that will help them become a more effective, efficient, and happier person
  • Anyone looking for a change in their life to become mentally stronger and emotionally more intelligent

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