A Sam Williams is a man who falls in love with not women but the large cities they live in. He can be spotted during the hours of 5am and 6 am waking up in a sweater vest and khakis, not to mention the loafers awaiting his arrival at the foot of his bed.
Usually wears a suit regardless of the occassion and typically boasts about his recent discoveries of how to tie a bow-tie.
His infatuations with DZ girls only comes second to his love of number crunching and excel spreadsheets.
If looking to find a Sam Williams one only needs to listen for the sound of teeth brushing or gospel choir music radiating through the halls of a college dormitory.
Contrary to popular belief it is the Sam Williams' of the world that created the Dow Jones Industrial Average as well as invented the internet and currently write forbes magazine.
"Dude you won your college's American Idol competition? You're such a Sam Williams!"
"After being arrested for the 4th time my dad asked, Why Can't you be more of a Sam Williams!?"
"You were in JoS A. Banks for how long!? What a Sam Williams"
"You got jacked by a 10 year old!? What a Sam Williams"
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.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
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.”