Ashrita Furman loves breaking records. In fact over the last 30 years, he's broken almost  110 Guinness World Records. And be recently broke the Guinness World Record for "the most ecords held at the~time by an individual".    Ashrita broke his first record in 1979, doing 27,000 star jumps in one go. But since then,he 's set all sons of records: clapping non-stop for 50 hours, balance a lawn mowerp)on ds chin for almos two minutes... the list is endless. The 57-year-old New Yorker runs a health food shop but spends his free time training to break new records   How does he decide which records to attempt? Simple! Ashriba studies the Guinness Book if Records online database. "I used to stay up two or three in the morning, sifting through the 10,000 records and chose the ones I was interested in." he explained. But these days, to make tare he has overall fitness. he chooses records that work different pmt of his bod3   In his attempts to break records, Ashrita often navels abroad. In 2005. he set the record for he "fastest mile on a space hopper while jumping along the Great Wall of China. In 2003, he at the record for the "longest time balancing on a Swiss ball" at Stonehenge, England. And he ikes to make his record attempts as challenging as possible.   As a teenager, he met a gum(}and began studying meditation(] ." ;hanged my life... And I soon realized that limits are all in the mind." One day, his gum told him to go and "break records". So he did and he hasn't stopped since. He recently said, "The point is joy. The point is the challenge. It's something silly, but you are the best in the world at it" Which can be the best title for the text?
Challenge brings change A great meditation learner Gmiu are all in the mind An amazing record-breaker