1) Pretending to be something you are not, in hopes of fitting in, joining a group, or getting a job. ie: depicting wealth by wearing expensive clothes, shoes, handbags or driving fancy cars. Pretentious.
2) Using high vocab words so you can appear smart, in attempt to trick people into thinking you are educated..
Friend: "How do you expect to fit in with your boyfriends rich educated friends when you have a 10th grade education and make $5 an hour at WalMart".
Girl: "I've been reading the Dictionary to increase my vocabulary, bought some new designer clothes, a Louie Vuitton bag. You know, fake it till you make it!"
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.”