I'm quite sure there was a great example in the book "Talent is overrated" that goes through this with one of the early US presidents. Basically this guy wasn't

I'm quite sure there was a great example in the book "Talent is overrated" that goes through this with one of the early US presidents. Basically this guy wasn't much of a writer but then he employed the "deliberate practice" technique to methodically study, pull apart, rewrite and review+correct some of the great writings of the day, to improve his own writing. And ultimately he ended up apparently being a great writer. I guess there's a science to most things.