Stanleyism is having the Stanley mindset and thought process. Determination and being nonchalant at the same time. Being humble, but deep down having a very fragile ego that needs constant care and attention. Never giving up, but also being mentally depressed and having partial eating disorder. If you act like this and think the same way you are either suffering/experiencing/living in the Stanleyism pathway! So either enjoy it or quit it, but you can say “I’m living like Stanley.”
Guy 1: Why has he been hitting the gym and eating like shit lately?
Guy 2: He is experiencing some “Stanleyism”, it’s really just a phase.
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
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.”