as a trait of the spoiled child, who has been insufficiently encouraged to develop social interest. From a purely behavioral perspective, the lazy person may have experienced insufficient positive reinforcement for previous efforts, and striving behavior may have extinguished. Laziness can be seen as a kind of learned helplessness: “My efforts don’t matter, so why try?” Against this assumption of laziness as a fixed trait is the view that the motivation for a specific task varies according to the