You can be a contrarian & a learner. Suspicion that a view is wrong is fine, confronting that view leads to learning. I disagree that contrarians believe they are always right. Hitchens was a contrarian & avid learner. His stance on waterboarding is a good example of how to confront your own views.
When you realize who you are isn't static and is instead ever changing and blossoming. Then, you can begin to allow new ideas to become a part of you without worrying that you are losing who you are. There is no singular you to lose, there never was.
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I feel this is how to become a true learner.