10,000 hour rule

Practice makes perfect!  Anytime I hear this phrase I think about my mother making me practice the piano as a kid and she would set a little timer to make sure I got my full hour of practicing time in.  Little did she know I would sneak into the kitchen were the timer was and I would take off about 30 minutes. :)  

I 'm reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and in order to become an expert in a field you need roughly 10,000 hours of practice which equates to bout 10 years.  I think I played the piano about 7-8 years and I was never very good at it, because I never really wanted to be and I never put in the time to practice. 

Painting and drawing on the other hand, I was all about.  My mother would give me money for an after school snack and I would just use the money to buy art supplies.  I remember that I asked my mother if I could take an art class and my mother told me "No, you are just going to quit like you quit ballet."  I think I lasted 1 month in ballet when the teacher put me in the back of the class. 

I wonder how close or far I am to my 10,000 hours.