1. The lifestyle consisted of total freedom from any kind of influence, belief, and conflict.
2. The ability to find your own hidden passion
3. The skill of detachment in relationships (with love, still)
4. The courage to break free from everything, without using drugs or weeds
5. The ability to laugh endlessly...sometimes at yourself
6. The blanked state of mind, realzing its own uncertainty
The moment that I realised how to live in a Pissarian Way was when I was running a marathon. Your body reached its own limitation and felt extremely exhausted. But, there is 10 miles to go!, so that state of mind, freedom from thinking, attitudes, conflicts, and anxiety, was the only way to keep the runner going till the end.
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.”