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#25) How to Use Our Autopilot

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Hello and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today we're going to talk about our own personal autopilot. Before we begin, make sure that you've first watched this video where I introduced the concept. Once you learn what the autopilot is, you can return to this video to learn how to use it. Okay -- let's jump right in. #1) Program Our Autopilot First, we will learn how to program our autopilot. [Mel appears at the piano] Okay, here we are, back at the piano again, and this time I remembered my tux! So, let me show you. I'm currently practicing Chopin's 8th Etude, and I've broken it up into two stages. Stage 1 is Wrist Training and Memorization. So, I've taken the notes of the etude, and I've written them in blocks. Here's the first block. [Mel play first block.] My next block. Now let me just play the blocks for you so you can hear what it sounds like. [Mel plays a few measures of blocks.] Okay. Now, I will also play this...

#24) Logic: Bringing It All Together

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Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today we continue our adventures in Logic. If you haven't already, you should first watch the foundation sessions. Here's a link to the first three videos.  #9) Logic: Introduction #15) What's a Logic Gate? #21) How Can We Use Logic Gates? It takes about 30 minutes to get through them. Once you come back to this session, we will bring together all of the basic principles.  Let's first review what we've learned. First, we can reduce English statements into symbols, which can allow us to analyze the underlying logic more easily. Example:  If Sam is human, he has a face. A -> B Sam is human. A Therefore, Sam has a face. ∴ B And we learned how the answer to a logical question can either be TRUE, FALSE, or UNDETERMINED. TRUE and FALSE can be shown as 1 and 0 respectively. We've learned how logic gates can capture the relations between two logical ideas. Example: ...