When we first did hovering in the Huey in the early 70s, there was no real teaching on what to look for, it was just "stop moving around." Somehow we found the hover fairy and we all went solo in the circuit with 12 hours total.
When I came back years later as an instructor, the lesson plans spoke of the Hover Attitude. Bingo. The light came on about what the brain was really doing, and I was asking "why didn't they tell us this when we were learning?"