[sunkencity]

Yep it's whether you are an active information-seeker or not: If you never question your current model of thought it is a lot harder to learn, you'll mostly learn things that match what you know and the ideas and perspectives you can apply to a problem will be fairly limited.

Contrast with a competent person, that have a knack for picking up new stuff, they are used to learning stuff so they know that they don't know everything.