The awkward twirl of the hand over the screen of a phone, tablet or touchscreen.
When you freeze in the midst of navigating the system, the hand circles like a loading dial.
The motion of the hand with index finger outward, circling over the screen is intended to help speed up the brain to limit the awkward delay. Typically in the presence of a another person observing the motion. But can also occur in a solitary moment of brain fatigue. Strongly associated with excessive caffeine or nicotine use.
‘Mike has a lot of potential when it comes to closing sales, but he often makes his client anxious with all those finger tornados, I think he gets too anxious when taking payment.’
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.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
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.”