The kind of person best suited to learn NLP is interested in language and words. People who like to understand the subtle and ambiguous ways that words and sentences convey meaning to a human enjoy learning about NLP. Someone interested in how devices use artificial intelligence to make decisions for humans may be well suited to learn NLP. A person who is comfortable living in the world of automated language and personal assistants (such as Siri and Alexa) may find learning NLP worthwhile too.