system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What makes my brain go "I don't know how to do this therefore I don't want to do it"?
gpt
1) Fear of the unknown.  An evolutionary instinct we are born with.

2) Fear of failure.  A sociological reaction we learn.

3) Sloth/Laziness.  Don't want to invest the effort required to learn this new thing.

4) Combination of 1, 2, & 3.  Most likely answer.  Nothing is so simple.