What is an adept?

[Aion]

To be adept is simply to be highly skilled, and so 'an adept' is a person who is the same.
The saying is that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master something, so maybe adept is like halfway, 5000 hours.

The 10 thousand hours thing has been debunked. Just saying.

It is an adage and a saying, I don't think it was ever based on science. It is simply a statement on the effectiveness of practice in my mind. It never struck me as particularly precise.
I think the guy usually associated with it was writing about the Beatles, lol. Maybe it was scientific in his mind.

Obviously, text doesn't deliver the nuance of expression so you cannot often see the tongue in my cheek.

My point was simply that 'adepthood' is not a destination but rather a natural transformation as part of the journey. That is, if you are making the effort to take the journey.

Mayhaps everyone is pushed along that way eventually anyways.