An extreme aversion to work, in all shapes and forms. Usually, a vicious cycle will form where a little fanjitulation progresses to severe fanjitulation which can continue for years and years before the cycle is broken.
Often incorrectly used as a synonym for the less severe but similar "procrastinate"
"Bob had been fanjitulating on the library computers all day after the sad realisation.. maybe this getting a degree thing wasn't really for him after all"
"There was nothing Graham liked more after a day spent pretending to work, than a good fanjitulate when he got home to his room"
"You spent all month in bed? That's fanjitulastic!"
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.
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.”