A person with little experience, background or training who suddenly starts to enjoy high-brow, high-margin items of questionable quality. Includes people who buy artwork on cruise ships, $10,000 home theatre systems and Hummers. They also drink wines costing $50+ per bottle without ever drinking the $10+ ones and buy athletic gear engineered for professional athletes for a half-mile stroll. While they profess their love of the "finer things in life," a merchant laughs all the way to the bank.
Dave is such a connoissucker. He bought that painting on a Caribbean cruise for $2500 and acts like it's a Van Gogh.
A person with little experience, background or training who suddenly starts to enjoy high-brow, high-margin items of questionable quality. Includes people who buy artwork on cruise ships, $10,000 home theatre systems and Hummers. They also drink wines costing $50+ per bottle without ever drinking the $10+ ones and buy athletic gear engineered for professional athletes for a half-mile stroll. While they profess their love of the "finer things in life," a merchant laughs all the way to the bank.
Dave is such a connoissucker. He bought that painting on a Royal Caribbean cruise for $2500 and acts like it's a Van Gogh.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
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.”