10,000 hours makes you an expert

According to M. Gladwell, you need to have ten thousand hours in at something to be an expert in it. That is roughly 5 years of 40 hours a week at something.

I was a part time white belt at brazilian jiu jitsu from 1999 to 2001. Then I stopped. I started back big time into jiu jitsu in February of 2008 and went at it for at least 15 hours a week for almost exactly two years, February 2010.

And then my medical nightmare began and I've been unable to train more than 3 months in the past 19 months.........

So I have 1,500 hours in, when I could possibly have at least 3,000. One third of the way to "expert". Or black belt. When in reality I'm a barely average purple belt.

But I went back tonight. And I'm gonna go back tomorrow. And keep going till I have to quit.