"The 10000 Hour Rule is usually attributed to the research done by Anders Ericsson. He and his team divided students into three groups ranked by excellence at the Berlin Academy of Music and then correlated achievement with hours of practice. They discovered that the elite all had put in about 10000 hours of practice, the good 8000 and the average 4000 hours. No one had fast-tracked. This rule was then applied to other disciplines and Ericsson found that it proved valid."
I feel that I'm about average right now so I place myself within approximately the 4000 hour mark. My goal is to get to 10,000 and record the journey here. Wish me luck.
