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hey everybody so I have an email here from a reader he says Rob have you considered making a page or two of relevant glossery terms in the back of your books Joy value sin peace Etc I know you have Bullseye statements throughout your books on the words themselves but could be helpful to have them in a Consolidated place for people to quickly reference as needed yes that is something that I have thought of I I think it's it's sweet of you to suggest that that would only be a page or two um so I actually have a a rolling document that has uh a lot of definitions to words and that's just one of many projects that are that are in progress but I had the thought when I read this email and why am answering it via a video instead of uh just replying to the email the the thought was that this might be accelerated in time if we could crowdsource this at least as a start so what I'm going to do is I'm going to post this video and then invite all of you to search on upward.org or this YouTube channel as you prefer uh of course on upward.org if you're a registered user you can use the search feature and that will actually index across all the books and blog posts and so you could more quickly access the material that way and go ahead and paste quotes with references in the comments to this video and I will assemble those and add those to that book or maybe it will be on upward.org I'm not sure yet but that will help accelerate this because it's kind of tricky to look those up so if we if we spread out the work a little bit it will help and we'll see where that goes one of one of my hesitations with that project is just that as you probably know I've spoken a bit on language and it can facilitate greater thought about things and it can also limit you and so with those definitions there'd be a big fat disclaimer somewhere that would say something like use these as far as they're useful and this is a big departure from what you might get somewhere else which would be much more heavy-handed and dogmatic uh this this would be more just trying to be helpful and take this for what it's worth and your my page may vary and and that's one reason why there isn't a glossery in each book is because it's quite important to be able to rotate between precise language and fuzzy language and uh It's Tricky it's it's very tricky but it's important so I think I've rambled on for long enough for this not to be a short otherwise I might just have to sing a song AC capella uh I I did since I'm here I'll I'll go ahead and and say some more about registration so the website upward thought is free the books are free the videos are free anything I produce I give away and there's even a very liberal copyright policy so the all the books are available in PDF and you're encouraged to share those with others but um what one of the reasons that those things are free is so that there isn't any impediment because of money any any Financial impediment to accessing them so everyone can use 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cell phone or the internet or anything like that he didn't even have a machine and so um in our day it's possible to actually send out an alert and this is very interesting isn't it so I just throw that out there as food for thought but the main reason you should register is so that you can use that very powerful search it's a helpful thing and and very few people take advantage of it so I encourage you to check that out so yeah throw a comment in this video If you have a definition from the books or blogs or videos that you like or even if you don't like it go ahead and post it in the comments maybe especially if you don't like it and uh you can share with folks why you don't like it that would be delightful to see thanks see you later