First boxer in the history of boxing to win 7 titles in 7 weight divisions (Super Flyweight, Super bantamweight, Super featherweight, Lightweight, Super Lightweight, Welterweight).
Boxing's only eight-division world champion and only five-division lineal champion. Despite being a first ballot future Hall-of-Famer, he is so naive to think that he has a shot at winning the presidency in his native country, the Philippines. He does not have the capability of running a country as evidenced by his poor performance as being a senator.
A country's president should be a learned individual who knows how to run a country so if you dream to become the leader of your country, don't be a Manny Pacquiao!
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.”