#grind culture

[thepeacefulgarden]

#rest #give yourself permission to rest #self care #self care is not selfish #self compassion #self respect #self love #work culture #grind culture #stop the glorification of busy #spoons #chronic illness #burnout #compassion fatigue #activism fatigue #no guilt #no shame

[odinsblog]

I would be sO incredibly chill you would not believe it

#this right here #fr fr fr #elon musk #andrew tate #andrew taint #greed #grindset #grindcore #grind culture #capitalism

[animentality]

I've had bosses try to guilt me for wage theft or whatever, but it's not going to ever work on me specifically because I am a scam artist.

I will gladly get paid to do nothing. I will shamelessly lie to you about my activity and not lose sleep over it. I will always, forever, be chasing after the highest possible salaries for the lowest amount of effort possible.

I will never work my absolute hardest at any job and I have no interest in dedicating my life to a company.

My life is for me.

Hail Satan.

#capitalism #work culture #grind culture

[liberalsarecool]

The grind culture is aptly named: you get ground to dust. Capitalism is terminal.

#late stage capitalism #grind culture

[fly-the-pattern]

#memes #meme #throwback #lol #funny #lol memes #funny memes #funny meme haha #funny stuff #millenials #get that bread #grind culture #work #jobs #my job is killing me #my job #unmotivated #im tired

[teapot-studies]

'Straight A' influencers are literally no different than these grind culture bros. Toxic work culture does not just apply to work. It is taught to us in school.

#grind culture #straight A's #study blog #studyblr #adhd #university #study aesthetic #study with adhd #work culture #teapot studies #grindset #youth liberation

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

My issue with grind culture is the fact that I had a hyperfixation for a bit about Tip of the Tongue moments and what causes them.

Tip of the Tongue moment occurs when the brain gets "stuck". It's primarily associated with getting "stuck" looking for a word, phrase, or name, but can occur when getting "stuck" on a great many things including difficult problems at work. Really anything.

And the more you focus on being "stuck" and bring stressed or upset about being "stuck". The worse it'll become. The best way to deal with a Tip of the Tongue moment is to move on. The answer will come to you later.

How does this relate to find culture? Because sometimes you are stuck on a difficult problem at work, and you'll be so frustrated that it's not coming to you. And the best way to deal with that isn't by sitting at your desk for 12 hours trying to work. The best way to deal with that is task your brain with something else, and the answer will come to you.

Yes. I just said the best way to deal with being stuck on your work isn't working harder. It's getting up. Stretching your legs. Going on a short walk. Grabbing a snack. Literally thinking about anything but the problem for a minute until the answer comes to you.

Your brain is imperfect. Answers don't always come smoothly. Sometimes the best way to move past an obstacle is by taking a short break to watch a quick episode of your anime. What'll get your answer faster. Sitting for 3 hrs being flustered about being stuck? Or 30 minutes focusing on not work until the answer comes to you?

And that looks like laziness in the grind mindset, but to me it's the easiest way to obtain maximum efficiency to get shit done with the least amount of stress.

-fae

#the grind never stops #grind culture #the grind #laziness #neurodivergent

[oddmawd]

i grow stuff via hydroponics and today someone told me "you should stop growing herbs and do microgreens instead and sell them to local restaurants for some extra cash," LIKE CAN I NOT JUST HAVE A GODDAMN HOBBY ACTUALLY?!?!?!?!

#back at it again with side hustle culture #monetizing hobbies one by one #i just want to cook with fresh herbs #please god no #capitalist hellscape #capitalist hell #grind culture

[thecursedquoteshop]

(via "Just Me and My Business Coconuts" Sticker for Sale by Cursed-Quotes)

Just me and my Business Coconuts. There's no Monkey Business... because we're not Bananas.

#a whole journey was taken to arrive here #redbubble #the cursed quote shop #redbubble shop #shop #business #business coconuts #coconut #hustle culture #rise and grind #business quotes #motivational quotes #grind culture #quotes #quote #words #sayings #phrases #motivation #grindset #grind mindset #grindset mindset

[thepeacefulgarden]

#you are worthy #self compassion #stop the glorification of busy #you are enough #grind culture #hustle culture #work culture #just be #rest #give yourself permission to rest #no guilt #no shame #self care #you matter

[superhumanfoods]

if i have to keep saying it every single day until it gets through to people, i will:

people need hobbies. you, specifically, need to have hobbies. socially, emotionally, and psychologically, you need to do things just because you want to.

(CW: some discussion of the psychology behind disordered eating.)

when people talk about extreme burnout, when people talk about mid-life crises, the mistake they make is in assuming those are different things.

when a 20 or 30-something entrepreneur or influencer starts experiencing the productivity paralysis associated with burnout, that is not different from when a 50 or 60-something mid-level manager at a tech company starts experiencing the anxiety and restlessness associated with a mid-life crisis. the symptoms might look different, but when you peer deeper into the underlying issue that's causing them, the psychological distress these people are experiencing becomes indistinguishable.

it's a form of starvation.

"there is nothing in my life for me."

your job is not for you. your profit is not for you. your hustle is not for you.

these things are for your financial security, your sense of status in your community, your feelings of achievement and self-worth. and that's fine. those are all good and necessary things.

but they're not for you, because you are not the work you do or the money you make or the people who admire you.

you are the quiet, strange, harmless little urges that strike you in those moments when you are left alone with yourself.

you are the you who once alphabetized your friend's DVD collection, completely unprompted. you are the you who once spent three hours on a single level of tony hawk's pro-skater trying to see how badly you could bug out the map. you are the you who doodled in the margins of your high school notebooks even though you never thought of yourself as a particularly good artist.

you're not a machine. you're a weird little animal called a human being, and sometimes, you will need to do silly little things that other people might not understand.

preventing yourself from doing so is a form of self-harm.

a person who has begun to recognize that their life is completely absent of pointlessly joyous things becomes an animal that has realized it is caged without understanding what the cage is.

they feel restless and listless and like something terribly important is missing or needs to be done, and they usually can't explain why, because getting to that point requires you to go all in on the idea that uselessness is the same as worthlessness.

that there is no space in your life for pointless things. that everything needs to have some form of value in how it serves your goals.

treating things that way turns every hobby into a hustle, even if money never changes hands.

you start treating everything like a job.

and that can ruin you. it can make you incapable of understanding how to engage with the things you enjoy just to enjoy them.

everything starts getting weighed on this internal scale of functional use and valued accordingly, and that leaves very little room for things that bring you joy and nothing else.

it's an incredibly hard mindset to unlearn, and i have some suspicions that the damage it does to your mind might not be completely reversible.

i used to struggle with disordered eating.

there are elements to the grind culture mindset that are frighteningly familiar to me. the attitude towards self-deprivation is the same. it's exactly the same. it's like a self-deprivation mad libs: swap a couple words out and you can't tell what it started out as, because it could be either.

and i think that's because when you deprive yourself of things that you have decided are not strictly necessary, it can make you feel powerful. accomplished.

and yes, it can be hard. it can be punishing. but that specifically is what gives the illusion of having achieved some sort of control.

there's this thought of it being your body, your life, and now you are one step closer to shaping it into your version of perfection.

but that's never going to happen. there isn't an end point. there won't come a day when you are satisfied with what you've achieved.

because it and you are not becoming anything.

all you're doing is starving yourself.

and if you do it long enough, there's a chance you're going to spend the rest of your life relearning how to chew. a very real chance that you will never be normal again. that you will never truly be free again.

that those thoughts may slowly diminish, may fade into the background, but will never truly leave you. that they'll catch you off guard, even years later, in moments where you truly believed you were done getting better.

sure, you can technically live on the bare minimum. but what's the fucking point? what does it achieve, in the end?

what does it get you that's worth what it cost you?

fuck grind culture.

the hobby is mandatory.

i don't care if it's crochet or cooking or pointillism or pressing flowers. i don't care if you're laying out every pencil you own in order of length in a line on the floor or creating an elaborate rube goldberg machine with household items.

take up scrapbooking. play trashy dating sims. write trashy romance novels and jumpscare your family with them when you die.

write fanfiction. make a blog dedicated to roleplaying as a bog witch.

i don't care.

i don't care what you're doing. all that matters is that you're doing it because it seems like it would be fun or satisfying to do, and that's it.

you need hobbies. it doesn't matter what they look like.

but you need hobbies.

#CW disordered eating #disordered eating mention #grind culture #the goblincore people have it right #collect rocks #scream at the moon #for the love of god just let yourself enjoy things

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #darrylondemand #hustle culture #grind culture

[nando161mando]

"When I was in my early 20’s, I hustled my ass off. I worked 2 jobs and a side hustle. I drank 8 cups of coffee a day and popped No Doz pills to work at night.

And then I burned the fuck out. And crashed hard.

And it wasn’t worth it.

There’s a lot of folks who will tell you: “grind to the point of exhaustion. Chase wealth and rest later. Make work your only religion.”

That advice is poison. It will leave you broken and hurt and tired and alone."

#wage slavery #slavery #facts #fact #neoliberal capitalism #capitalism #chattel slavery #grind culture #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #antiwork #anti slavery #slaves #slave #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #anthony albanese #albanese government #placebo #slavetothewage #music #lovemusichatefascism #161 #1312 #class war

[positively--speculative]

I feel sorry for people sucked into the lie that having things™️ is the only way they can be happy. They want the best™️ cars and clothes. They want to travel because they're convinced it's what they're supposed to do because they've been sold the lies social media influencers sell.

Me? I prefer to romanticize what they would consider mundane. I enjoy weekends where I don't do much but work on my crafting projects. I'm in the process of creating a horror themed book of collages right now. That's going to be an ongoing project. I also just made a few candles for some of my lovely neighbors to enjoy. I like going with my dad to a large park in my city that my dog loves because she likes to meet people and run around in the grass. All of this is wonderful and fills me with joy, but I just know influencers would sell my lifestyle as something tragic? Why? Because I'm single in my 30s. I spend more time on my crafting projects instead of going out and party as a way to hold onto my fleeting youth. I dote on my dog when I should be trying to find a man. I hang out with my dad when I'm supposed to be ashamed as an adult who remains close with my parents.

And the sad part is that people who think this way don't stop to question why they do. They make themselves miserable striving for an impossible lifestyle. They're constantly disappointed that the things™️ don't bring them joy like they were promised they would, but instead of looking inward, they continue to post the lies and illusions of a life made better by the "grind."

They learned absolutely nothing from Studio Ghibli.

#Life #Mundane #Anti-grind culture #Grind culture #Misogyny #A whole lot of things of which I don't know what to tag

[deepdrearn]

Finally finishing up this book that I love to hate 🤷‍♀️

I think I started this one two years ago and halfway got stuck but it remained on my bedside since then. Even though I think of myself as a person with quite some stamina, I was really annoyed with how the book sings basically the gospel of grind culture and suggests everything is possible if you were only "gritty" enough, larded with quotes as "whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right" and "just keep working hard and learning, and it will all work out".

But somehow I could also not do away with the book. Last week, I picked it up and found myself immediately annoyed again. So I decided to see if there was more criticism to be found and well, yes it turns out the book has received quite some: misleading reporting of effect sizes, narrow populations, shakey survey questions and the suggestion that grit is very identical to already established psychological concepts.

With my doubts validated, I could read the second half with some grains of salt, which made it a whole lot easier to bear. The one thing that I love to hate in particular is her weird implicit definition of "success", which seems to me mainly about making money and success in the capitalist sense. This results in the awkward presentation of all kinds of "grit paragons", of which most awkwardly Jeff Bezos, who for the life of me I cannot imagine as a good example for anything really.

Anyway, while annoying the hell out of myself I also got go pick up the many interesting psychology tidbids in there, of which my favorite is about learned helplessness and learned optimism. And, granted to Duckworth, I do feel inspired to apply now for this next cool job opening that I saw 🙃

#grit #Angela duckworth #grind culture #book review #one person book club