Redefining hustle culture with Robin Arzón
Worklife with Adam Grant
TED
4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Robin Arzón is the head instructor at Peloton and an ultramarathon runner, but she didn’t plan to make her career based on her athletic prowess. In this conversation with Adam, she talks about how she fell in love with running in adulthood and her radical career pivot from lawyer to renowned exercise instructor. They discuss what hustle culture gets wrong, why motivation may be less important than momentum, and how to create a consistent practice in the gym — and beyond it.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. Welcome back to rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people |
| 0:18.5 | to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking. |
| 0:21.5 | My guest today is Robin Arse. and new ways of thinking. |
| 0:25.0 | My guest today is Robin Arson. She's the beloved head instructor at Peloton |
| 0:28.0 | and an endurance athlete. |
| 0:29.0 | She's run five marathons in five days |
| 0:32.0 | and a 100-mile ultra-marathon. |
| 0:35.3 | Robin's also the author of Shut Up and Run, a former lawyer, a new contributor to Good |
| 0:40.2 | Morning America, and a survivor of a near-death experience. I have multiple |
| 0:45.0 | friends who are devoted members of Robin's Peloton Wolf Pack and they tell me |
| 0:49.0 | that sometimes she's the only reason they make it to and through a workout. |
| 0:53.6 | So I was excited to talk with her about finding motivation, |
| 0:56.4 | maintaining energy, and rethinking hustle culture. Robin anything you want to make sure we do or don't talk about? Oh, I'm open. |
| 1:13.0 | Let's just rock. |
| 1:14.0 | I want to know, how do you go from lawyer to chief fitness instructor, head trainer? |
| 1:21.0 | This is a massive career pivot. How did that happen, Robin? |
| 1:24.9 | I mean, I think like most change, it was slow and iterative. It was not a very dramatic, |
| 1:31.1 | singular moment. I ran myself out of a law career. I was a corporate |
| 1:34.7 | litigator in New York City and I fell in love with running so I started to |
| 1:39.2 | really think about how I would be able to monetize this new passion, |
| 1:43.0 | knowing that I would never be a professional athlete |
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