If you were to aspire to be the best coach in NBA history, you would need to find methods all the others failed to find. Now, suppose you thought you could learn from the best -- say, be an assistant to Gregg Popovich in San Antonio -- and that would be enough.
Wouldn't.
If you took up every trait Popovich had -- but did nothing new -- your ceiling would be no higher than what Popovich achieved. That's good, but we want to go beyond that. What is it Albert Einstein said? "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That applies at the top rung same as it does at the lower.
If you are to go beyond Coach Pop, you must add something beyond what he offers.
Plus, consider that Pop is not perfect. Maybe he rants a bit too much at times -- I don't know. Whatever his bad traits, you are likely to assimilate them, as well as the good -- unless you make a concerted effort to recognize those bad traits and not repeat them.
So, sit down in your chair and ask yourself what makes a good coach. Try to find something that isn't being done. And, as you sit there thinking, reflecting on all the values learned while coaching under Pop, or Steve Kerr, or whoever, stroke your mind hard enough that you (1) realize what they did wrong, and (2) come up with things they didn't do at all.
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