Are You an Expert?

The idea that it takes 10000 hours to become an expert at something has been floating around for a while now. To break it down a little, that would mean practicing something for 3 hours a day for ten years, or 6 hours a day for five years.

When I first heard of the 10000 hour rule, I wondered how close I was to being an "expert" in writing. I've been taking Quantitative Methods in Behavioral Science for about a month now, and the class has made me realize that there might be some interesting ways to turn abstract ideas into formulas by assigning certain concepts with a numerical value. The 10000 hour rule seemed like a good place to start. The abstract concept would be the term 'expert'. The 10000 hours rule supplies a number that can stand in the place of the term 'expert'. Then it's just a matter of figuring out how near you are to having completed 10000 hours of writing.

Here's the formula I came up with to find out how close you are towards your goal of being an expert writer via a percentage:

Whoa, fancysauce, right?

Okay, allow me to explain how this works. 

1. First, figure out how many years you've been writing. (ex: 11 years) Plop that shit in where it says years.
2. Obv. there are 365 days in a year, but did you write every single day? I doubt it. Estimate how many days per week you write on average and multiply times the amount of weeks in year (that's 52, y'all).
3. Multiple the resulting number with the number of years you're been A Writer.
4. Now, multiply that number with the average hours per day that you spend writing. Get an answer. That answer is the total amount of hours you've spent writing in your life. Neat, right? You can stop now if you despise math and can't bear to do it anymore. Or:
5. Divide the total number of hours you've spent writing by 10000.
6. Multiply by 100 to get your percentage. Boom. Donezo. 

So according to my formula, I'm 69% complete. Not too sha-sha-sha-sha-shabby.