So we did it more. And the more I did it the better I got. It wasn't a talent thing, it was practice. After about five years of climbing I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I'd learned that if you enjoy something and do it all the time you get better at it.
Practice makes better.
Later I took that idea into a very scary place. I decided to see if I could actually learn how to read and write by practicing. I read and wrote every day for two years. I had avoided reading things as much as possible and avoided writing completely. Nevertheless, for two years I took my prior experiences and mapped them into learning how to read and write, and at the end of two years I'd learned a lot.