The Mind Reader's Guide to Metaphor: Udemy Course

I found a course on Udemy (an online learning platform that targets adults who want to add specific skill sets to their resumes or just learn about their passions) called The Mind Reader's Guide to Metaphor (https://www.udemy.com/the-mind-readers-guide-to-metaphor/learn/v4/overview) and taught by Judy Rees that focuses exactly on what I am learning: metaphor and how it connects to our thought processes.

I have been reading Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson (check out my blog post reviews/reflections on it) and I is an Other by James Geary (blog posts to come), and while these two books are absolutely fascinating and present all of these new concepts about metaphor, I needed something that would give me a basic understanding of all the topics that the books cover.

So I'm starting this Udemy course to build that foundation. It's organized in a very point-to-point manner, building on material that gets introduced in each previous lecture.

There are 14 lectures total - 2 introductory ones that I won't include in the outline below - and it takes 1.5 hours to complete the entire course. All in all, it's very simple (it's a beginner level course).

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Layout:

Section 1: Minds and Metaphor

Lecture 1: The Metaphors Inside

Lecture 2: Familiar Metaphors

Lecture 3: The Metaphors You're Missing

Lecture 4: Four Hidden Metaphors in Action

Lecture 5: Six Metaphors a Minute

Quiz 1: Section 1 Quick Quiz

Section 2: Hearing Hidden Metaphors

Lecture 6: Tuning in to Metaphor

Lecture 7: Hearing Your Own Metaphor

Lecture 8: Planning Your Practice: Where to Spot Metaphors

Quiz 2: Section 2 Quick Quiz

Section 3: Using Metaphor

Lecture 9: Some Ways to Use This Knowledge

Lecture 10: Individual Differences

Lecture 11: Exploring Metaphors - Clean Language

Quiz 3: Section 3 Quick Quiz

Section 4: What Happens Next?

Lecture 11: Recommended Reading

Lecture 12: Conclusion

Quiz 4: Section 4 Quick Quiz

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Since we have only 2 more full weeks of school and I have an entire research paper about metaphor to write, I'm going to finish this course this week, writing notes for each section and posting them.

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