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Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today we're going to talk about logic gates, and guess what! This is our very first video that requires the viewing of an earlier one. Before you continue on, make sure you've already watched this introduction to logic. [LOL -- I point in the wrong direction because I didn't realize that YouTube deactivated Annotations for new videos] Just click this link , watch it, and come back here for Part 2. I'll give you five seconds and then we're diving in. Here we go. What's a logic gate? The best way to explain is to show you. Let's say I'm at home, working hard, and my kids want me to go on a walk with them. I look down at my bare feet and make a deal with my kids. "If you bring me my shoes AND my socks, then I'll go on a walk." Let's graph this out ...  Shoes 0 1 Socks 0 1 Shoes are up at the top: 1 means they bring me my shoes, and 0 means they don't. Socks are...

Hello and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today we will turn to the 7 Habits and discuss paradigms. To start off our discussion, I'd like to show you a picture. Think about this person. How old is she? What is she wearing? How do you think she lives her life? Would you like to get to know her? I'll give you five seconds to think about it -- pause if you need any more time. [Pause] Okay -- we'll come back to this picture a little later.  What is a paradigm? It's a way of looking at things. Each of us has different ways to look at life. We have a sense of how things should be, how people should behave, how we should treat each other, and so on. Some of us may have an overly optimistic outlook on life, and some of us may be more pessimistic. Stephen Covey presents two paradigms as an example. Throughout the 1800s, a Character Ethic prevailed. Think of Benjamin Franklin. If you're a good person -- honest, hard-working, patient, modest, co...