It is a common beginner mistake in many areas, to dive in head first without thinking. You can infer from my nickname, that I play the tuba... I'm a professional musician. Often I will get a young student, who is excited, and their parents buy them an instrument (the cheap ones still have a price in the low thousands) and they practice for a while... when they realize that it takes years of regular practice to play really well... and that they actually have to at least try what I tell them to get better... often they give up. Sometimes I will get a student with a problem. Who thinks I can help them solve their problem, that they spent years creating and reinforcing, in a couple of lessons. I will give them a few tips, and they will see minimal improvement, and then stop coming to lessons, and within a few months the problem will be back stronger than before. The cause of their problem is that they never developed a concept on what the finished product could be, or should be... so the few tips I gave them, which caused some improvement, had no direction for them, as they didn't change their concepts on sound, musicality, and other basics. The image in their mind remained the same, so that's what they went back to. I am seeing more and more that Bonsai is very similar... of course the time frames are much longer than with music, but many of the lessons I learned with music apply to bonsai.