Thanks so much @chbartist for this educative post. Its true our predisposition affects the way we participate in conversations and learning as the person conversing with us can get an indication that one is not interested in the the conversation. I have learnt that in order to learn something I have to first un learn it.
This post has reminded me of one experienced employee that I was training on how to do registration of persons using a system on laptop. I remember how this person always told me that 'I already know all those things just give a computer so that I go to work. ' I did not stop but continued with the training. When time to go and start field work came , I handed him all the necessary equipment. He promised me howbhe would be the best performer and I was also confident in him given his experience.
Then do you know what happened? When we did analysis of the collected data after the workwe fould out that this very employee had the highest number of mistakes. This was very badbecause it even affected our performance at national level. So I woukd like to let you know that being open to learning is so important.