How you describe a meeting to a colleague that wasn't there that turns into a smelly mess because of big egos, bad process and attitudes, and someone in particular who wants control but doesn't have it making a big stink.
I came back from the meeting and my colleague took one look at my face and said 'how did the meeting go?' and I said: "it stank...like a bad fart... a bad fart meeting".
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”