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i immediately think 'the ability to learn'.

this is much truer in my mind, since continuously learning to communicate better is just one small thing you get from having that...

its important to be unrestricted by what you know - in every field

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I would say 'the ability to learn how to learn'. OK, it gets complicated but the way I see it is that learning is great, if you know when you have reached enough knowledge to move on. On the other side, not learn too much as the same time, like being able to know how to do 'Hello World' in 24 languages is not useful, but some people/companies consider it as learning.

The ability to unlearn is important as well.

Can you give an example about that? I like this idea but I am not sure I can picture it.

For example the move to relational databases to NoSQL could mean unlearning some concepts you swear by, and starting from a clean slate.

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