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Laziness, an Uncommon card
Laziness is emotional disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or to exert oneself.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 36
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 49,000
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is often used as a pejorative, terms for a person seen to be lazy include "couch potato" and "slacker".
- Related concepts include sloth, a Christian sin, abulia, a medical term for reduced motivation, and lethargy, a state of lacking energy.
- Despite the famed neurologist Sigmund Freud's discussion of the "pleasure principle", Leonard Carmichael noted in 1954 that "laziness" is not a word that appears in the table of contents of most technical books on psychology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Laziness article was read about 49,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 36: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Laziness
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Laziness (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Rowlandson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.