sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I realized this morning that most of my method is based in this philosophy and that there are a few certain begginer stages that are inevitable, that when owned up to, will advance beginners collections quite fast.
3 beginner facts a beginner must own up to.
1. You will never stop looking for new/better material.
2. When you find new and better material your old material will become useless to you. (Less Sentimentals)
3. You will reach a point where you have too many trees.
This is why I so greatly appreciate BVF's thread on stack ranking. It is an inevitable necessity for our common goal of a nice collection, no matter your current definition of nice.
Phsycology says humans appreciate options, but suffer with too many. This is what leads me to own up to these facts, simply to lessen options, which uncovers more joy in the found focus.
With "soil wars" being a thing, step one for me was to own up to the fact that I certainly don't have time for that shit, so I limited my options and problems by owning up to my fact, that I will NEVER spend more than Napa 8822 costs, and much deeper into sustainability, don't trust Akadama and Pumice supply chains.
To avoid overwintering nonsense, which removes too much time from life, I owned up to the fact that I won't waste that time away from other more important things in life, including family and finding better trees.
There is an immense life lesson that runs directly parallel with this bonsai philosophy.
I don't think enough people own up to simple facts of themselves.
What is created then is this nonsensical atmosphere of humans trying to outdo one another, scheming in this attempt to get a 10/10, when without the scheming and one-upmanship, the scale increases to 1-100.
I think this is why we generally see so many "shitty" trees. Because most of them are alive in this false 1-10 scale, and the best of the best are freed and reaching the then visible scale to one hundred.
Expanding on the difficulty of this...
1. You will never stop looking for new/better material.
2. When you find new and better material your old material will become useless to you. (Less Sentimentals)
3. You will reach a point where you have too many trees.
The problem is, 2 gets lost when stuck in 1
and isn't realized till 3. Get to stack ranking fast.
Are there any difficult facts you owned up to that have brought you more joy?
Sorce
3 beginner facts a beginner must own up to.
1. You will never stop looking for new/better material.
2. When you find new and better material your old material will become useless to you. (Less Sentimentals)
3. You will reach a point where you have too many trees.
This is why I so greatly appreciate BVF's thread on stack ranking. It is an inevitable necessity for our common goal of a nice collection, no matter your current definition of nice.
Phsycology says humans appreciate options, but suffer with too many. This is what leads me to own up to these facts, simply to lessen options, which uncovers more joy in the found focus.
With "soil wars" being a thing, step one for me was to own up to the fact that I certainly don't have time for that shit, so I limited my options and problems by owning up to my fact, that I will NEVER spend more than Napa 8822 costs, and much deeper into sustainability, don't trust Akadama and Pumice supply chains.
To avoid overwintering nonsense, which removes too much time from life, I owned up to the fact that I won't waste that time away from other more important things in life, including family and finding better trees.
There is an immense life lesson that runs directly parallel with this bonsai philosophy.
I don't think enough people own up to simple facts of themselves.
What is created then is this nonsensical atmosphere of humans trying to outdo one another, scheming in this attempt to get a 10/10, when without the scheming and one-upmanship, the scale increases to 1-100.
I think this is why we generally see so many "shitty" trees. Because most of them are alive in this false 1-10 scale, and the best of the best are freed and reaching the then visible scale to one hundred.
Expanding on the difficulty of this...
1. You will never stop looking for new/better material.
2. When you find new and better material your old material will become useless to you. (Less Sentimentals)
3. You will reach a point where you have too many trees.
The problem is, 2 gets lost when stuck in 1
and isn't realized till 3. Get to stack ranking fast.
Are there any difficult facts you owned up to that have brought you more joy?
Sorce
. Yours will most likely be fine.
