Lifestyle is simultaneously a requirement and expression of social rank

Evidence

The parallels to athletics were explicit. The “grind” language appeared in a 2012 motivational video created for the Texas Christian University baseball team. Its narrator intoned, “A legion of voices are shouting their unanimous permission for you to hit the snooze button and go back to dreamland—but you didn’t ask their opinion. The voice you’ve chosen to listen to is one of defiance…. Welcome to the grind.” Social media served as a virtual clubhouse for bragging about disciplined lifestyle routines. During a week in June 2014, Twitter users were posting 9.3 “rise and grind” tweets per minute during peak hours. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 315 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Social media broadcast disciplined lifestyle routines as status-signaling bragging — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 315

Related

• Social media broadcast disciplined lifestyle routines as status-signaling bragging (similarity 0.91)
• Hustle culture borrowed athletic grind rhetoric and spread through social media bragging (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Social media broadcast disciplined lifestyle routines as status-signaling bragging #exemplifies (0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 315