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Originally Posted by tachigi
"The old Zen masters called a "beginner’s mind" an attitude that your knowledge is never sufficient or complete, and thus you must be perennially receptive to receiving a lesson at any time and from wherever you are and whatever it is that you do. So "beginner’s mind" is essentially a posture of humility towards what it is that you are trying to master--to accept that you are ignorant, essentially--and you are a student who is striving towards a state of lessened ignorance—rather than toward a state of mastery. Without a beginner’s mind you can’t master anything."......William Cumpiano
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Here is the problem: Trying to convince many beginners that they are just that; beginners.
From time to time we entertain those individuals that come to this site with knowledge from some other discipline. Thinking that because they know this, that, or something else, their knowledge makes them particularly suited to mastering bonsai to a point that exceeds the efforts of those who have been in the art for many years. Instead of accepting advise from experience they argue with what they have been told. Instead of listening they pontificate their point of view even though they do not have a single tree that could possibly be called a bonsai; even from the Mallsai point of view.