When I started teaching my son to fly, I told him, "This is much easier than driving, you only have to worry about one idiot in an airplane, but that idiot is YOU! And guess what? Gravity don't give a sh*t about you, and you can't just pull over and think about it if something goes wrong. That's why you have to think about what you are going to do BEFORE you ever get into the airplane."
Flying is not hard. Every airplane will fly all by itself if you just let go of it.
But hitting the ground too hard will ruin your day. You have to learn how -not- to do that. That's the tricky part.