1. A person who brags in an extremely expialidocious manner, especially if this person has a poor comprehension and command of the English language, and lies pathologically with diagnosed Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
2. A meaningless neologism invented during the September 26th, 2016 presidential debate by the candidate representing the conservative "Bumptious Impetuous Globular Oligarch-Tangerine" Party of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
..."And the reason I say this, and I don't mean it in a braggadocious way, is because it's about time that... (candidate trails off into incomprehensible nervous babbling)"
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.”