Most people I know who’ve been to college, or otherwise educated in the area they work in, tend to solve problems using what they know (not implying it’s a hard limit. Just an apparently well spread first instinct).

Which fits the pattern matching described by the grandparent.

A few people I know, most of which haven’t been to college, or done much learning at all, but are used to work outside of what they know (that’s an important part), tend to solve problems with things they didn’t know at the time they set out to solve said problems.

Which doesn’t really fit the pattern matching mentioned by the grandparent. At least not in the way it was meant.