3. I changed the word OK to okay. Originally when I wrote this book I
wasn't even thinking that the word OK was actually spelled okay, so I wrote it as
OK. Since I had to revise my book somewhat anyway, I decided to rewrite OK as
okay.
4. I added a few more pages to the Philosophy section of this book.
All of the philosophies, truths, and old sayings that were originally in this book are
still in here. I didn't take any of them out. I just added a few more pages of them
in this, the revised edition of this book.
Truth, philosophy, old sayings, and stuff like that really are what true
knowledge and education are all about. There is an old saying, "great minds think
alike". The reason for this is because, the truth and common sense are the same
for everybody. The truth is common and it makes sense. Although, when the truth
is bad it usually doesn't make any sense, however, when this happens you can be
sure that there are only people behind it making it that way. Again, the truth is
fairly common for everyone.
(Note: I never really did like that old saying, "great minds think alike"
much, because it is mostly used by the smart people who think they know it all
and usually undermind everything. The truth is that it is not just in the mind, it is
also in the heart, soul, conscience, feelings, sensory perceptions, and maybe
more, all together.)
5. Originally when I first started writing this book I wrote "and/or"
with the slash symbol the way I was taught in school. About halfway through
writing this book I decided that the slash symbol looked a little bit obtrusive so I
changed it to the dash symbol and left it that way. Since then I have decide that
the dash symbol doesn't necessarily look that much better. So now I use a comma
in between "and,or" without a space. I think it looks better that way and since I
have a tendency to use it quite a bit, similar too "and so on" and "also", I decided
to write it the way I want too. As a writer I have to look at it everytime I write it.
So, for in most of this book "and-or" will be written with the dash, because for the
most part, I left this book in it's original form. However, in the revision section I
wrote "and,or" with the comma and that is pretty much how I write it now.
(
2010 Revision Note: I went through the rest of the book and
changed all the the and-or(s) with the dash to and,or with the commas.)
(Note: I did make some minor changes to some of the other pages, but for the
most part they were just small proof reading and,or editing errors that I didn't
catch in the original book.)
A Little Bit About The Original Book
When it comes to my original SMARTT Book, I only sold five copies. It went
on sale at the end of October 1997. I put out flyers to sell it and I stood on the
street selling it from the street corners. I did this for about eight months. The five
copies I did sell were from the street corners. I didn't get any orders through the
mail. I obviously knew that the SMARiTT people were going to continue stealing my
mail from the post office "the family way", however I figured when I got enough
orders that it would get too big and they would