"it's mentally draining"


Of course it is. Choosing personal change is difficult and uncomfortable. That's why learning is stressful, you have to confront your own ignorance and deal with it.

But I can't endorse the reaction that learning is hard, so I choose to not learn.


Personally, in my biased opinion, I believe that if there is any evil in the world, it is voluntary ignorance. By which I mean, choosing to remain uneducated once you are aware of your short-comings is choosing to be wrong. Choosing to be wrong is against my core philosophy as a scientist. I believe that choosing to be wrong is antithetical to all human growth both on the individual level and on the societal level.