Here is my willy wave...(not)
Obsessive pilot on flight simulators of all kinds from a teenager.... Then radio controlled model planes and helis for 3 years right up to a big 4bhp 7 kilo one... Aero competitions.... Then im 19 years old and ready for the real thing...
12 hours 50 minutes at Shoreham in a C152. Ready to solo, Failed medical, gave up. Then 2 hours in a shadow Microlight... Gave up properly.
Ten years later, 22 hours in a Microlight....NPPL GP countersignature, and I'm solo. Then a frustrating 7 hours before going solo again... At which point i did 3 go-arounds in a row trying to land on a 450m strip (too high, too fast) needed some reassuring words over the radio. Then passed with 50 hours logged.
The more hours I fly the more aware of new dangers I become. If I had gone solo after 12 odd hours, I would have had no readiness for the slightest thing going wrong.