When it is late at night (around 3am) and your intoxicants have worn off, and you are just a shell wandering or staring aimlessly at walls, like a fish in a tank. Also, to actually fishtank you cannot be aware you are doing it -- that would mean you're coherent.
"We have to get Kevin home -- he'stotally fishtanking."
When you are sitting back in a groupsetting or party and just observing what is happening and watching the drama unfold.
Do you want to get to the party later and do some fishtanking? I heard there might be some drama that goes down. Perfect opportunity for us to fishtank.
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.”