I hope the quality of one's intro isn't totally important, I'm not so good at defining myself.
I first came into lucid dreaming at a time when I was trying to achieve astral projection. I didn't have much success with the AP, but I gained a lot of dream lucidity instead.
I recorded things in a dream journal for a while, until my lucid dreamings reached the point of being so often that I would have spent all my time writing about them, when nearly every dream was still lucid enough to know I was dreaming and remember afterwards.
I tried the whole superpowers thing for a while, until I lost interest. Eventually it felt more satisfying to peacefully explore the interesting places each dream had to offer, without me rewriting things. These days I save the superpowers for the odd personally threatening emergency.
I hope this didn't sound like I was trying to call myself an expert. Wise and all-knowing I'm not.