There's a thing called NLP or Neuro linguistic programming which effectively encompasses the 'Monkey see monkey do' philosophy. Basically you see someone do something and imitate their actions and effectively create what they have done to a point.
When I was a weekend warrior with the Territorial Army many years back we were taught in the EDIP fashion.....Explain, Demonstrate, Impersonate and Practice. So basically our instructor would explain to us what was required, he would demonstrate the requirement them we would impersonate what he was doing (within reason!) and then practice practice and more bloody practice.
I do it today when we have new peeps join us at work to help learn what I know!
Think we all take inspiration from others, there's no harm in that and indeed it's very flattering!
