The act of getting high. When you are not exactly high, you are somewhere along the tangent line.
Origin: 2011, when a black guy needed a new way to talk about getting high around administrators at Statesboro High School.
Kleever: Hey man, what are we doing tonight?
noJ: I don't know bro, let's bro rape.
Kleever: Nah man, we did that last time.
noJ: Let's reach the point of tangency!
Kleever: Way ahead of you bro, I'm somewhere along the tangent line, but soon we'll be Reaching the Point of Tangency.
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.”