used to refer to a younger modern kid who is, basically, a hippy wannabe. The individual dresses in the typical "hippy uniform" of tie-dye, Birks, shredded jeans, and Phish tee (or the like) and is often too baked to tell you "up" from "down". This individual is basically has no concept of what the original, hippy culture was about and only associates with hippydom because of his love of wake-n-bake.
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.”