A school where everyone is a genius when it comes book smarts and total headass in every other way. Everyone there has been addicted to nicotine at least once. Payton kids smoke and drink a ton while still somehow getting the best test scores in Chicago. It's just a school of crackheads that know how to ace math tests without studying.
Walter Payton College Prep kids
Person 1: Yo you tryna juul right now?
Person 2: Yeah lemme just ace my english test real quick
Person 1: wanna get high as fuck before math?
Person 2: but we literally have finals today
Person 1: And?
Person 2: Yeah aight let's go
a school full of mostly rich white kids who are considered the sporty nerds. people there are full of themselves and think they are better and smarter than everyone else. did i mention they're white and privileged? if you go there and aren't a rich white ego maniac, congrats. but still, you go to payton so you're still a jerk.
no one likes those rich white walter payton college prep kids.
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.”