To be open to learning, you have to let information pass through you, even when you don't understand it. The brain is a pattern recognition machine. You let it observe some patterns first. Then augment them more and more. Then slowly focus and direct toward your goal.
It takes a lot of humility to sit with confusion and observe without forcing comprehension.
The approach is similar to popular spiritual teachings and practicing mindfulness. Absorb the raw reality without forcing your opinion on it.

It's not a "productive" approach. Such a hands-off letting things happen on their own implies you have to be in a position of self-sufficiency. You sit and contemplate. You can't be in a rush or with a deadline. In other words it requires an abundance of time.

Unfortunately the world isn't very compatible with such a situation.
We are always running out of money.
Our attention and reward circuitry is getting bombarded with distractions and a constant stream of dopamine.

So we are already in a contradiction.
We have to artificially create an environment where we can sit, observe and let things happen on their own.
We are trying not to try, trying to force non-action. We arrived to the paradox of wu-wei.
If you are aggressively using willpower to fight off distractions to force yourself into a state of relaxed observation, you are, by definition, not relaxed.

We can apply compartmentalization to the problem and identify that "the environment setup" is separate from "the process of learning".
The environment requires a lot of effort to maintain, but after that learning is open and not forced.

We have to continuously switch between maintaining the environment (which is exhausting, frustrating, risky) and learning calmly and patiently.
That comes with lots of practice, experience, sacrifice.

If you're young, there are a few biological variables you have to learn to react to and plan for. The frontal lobe isn't yet developed and your hormones mess with your brain. So your decisions are far from perfect. You must internalize that decisions are NOT final.

Anticipate failure, iterate on both environment and process.

Laying out all those concepts is itself paradoxical, self-contradictory, self-referential, "help yourself so you can help yourself", overwhelming, not great to read if you're already struggling.
But you can let the information pass through you.