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bonsaiTALK ArchMaster
Join Date: Sep-2002
Location: Roseville Michigan
Country: USA
Posts: 2,329
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Originally Posted by JohnQuinn
It is perhaps even more beneficial for the experienced to keep that beginner's mind..."In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few."
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The ideas that are few are really the fruit of personal arrogance through the years of out-lasting the competition. It is the same arrogance that hinders the educated beginner who refuses to learn, and is reluctant to believe, that someone may have an idea better, or different, than those things they have already secreted away in their bloated opinion of themselves. Having achieved a vaunted level of education many come to bonsai thinking that none will be able to teach them much of anything of value because they already know everything there is to know about trees and plants. Sadly, many experienced growers adopt the same mind set in thinking because they have been doing bonsai for so long that no one is able to teach them anything new or useful. The bottom line comes to the same conclusion: Those who think they know everything seldom learn anything. They bluster and pontificate but in the end they remain more ignorant than those who at first endeavoured to assist them.
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The only finished bonsai is a dead one; me 1992 MABA Des Moines Iowa
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