When someone is new to a game and gets really good RNG, so they think it's all skill not luck.
Especially big in singleplayer games since no one is there to trash talk.
Person 1: "Jim just got to goldrank yet he just started playing last week"
Person 2: "Have you seen the way he plays? All luck, no skill. Bet he's feeling "I'm So Good-itis" right now.
When you think you're so skilled, but in reality it's your teammates/characters that are doing all the heavy lifting. Resorting in you falling behind.
Josh: "wow I thought this game was supposed to be hard, I've cleared 11 stages already! I'm the best at this game". In reality Josh pulled a 5 star hero early on.
Josh was later on team wiped on stage 15, for disregarding lobby upgrades, and for not paying attention to his hero's needs/upgrades; Thus he has I'm so good syndrome.
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.”