But around the world, he says, there is a subculture of people who spend a great deal of time trying to set or break records. He believes that, at any given time, each record has a few hundred people either thinking about or actively trying to break it.
We asked him what record he would most like to hold.
LARRY OLMSTED: "Uh, richest man in the world [laughs]."
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: The first chapter of his book is about Ashrita Furman. Mr. Furman has been setting records since nineteen seventy-nine. That was when he did twenty-seven thousand jumping jack exercises.
Ashrita Furman is fifty-six years old and a vegetarian who manages a health-food store. He lives near New York City in a small apartment with few possessions.
He has set records on all seven continents. In fact, he holds the record for holding the most Guinness records. He says he sets records so he can deepen his relationship with God.
ASHRITA FURMAN: "This is my way of, you know, trying to transcend my limitations by going deep within, trying to get closer to God through meditation and through prayer and through service. So this is my own, you might say, unusual quest, my own unusual path to get closer to God. The records themselves at this point, really, you know, in and of themselves don’t mean anything. At this point it’s really just for the challenge of it -- for my own, you might say, personal fulfillment."
BARBARA KLEIN: Ashrita Furman travels around the world setting records. His records include bouncing a ball the fastest for one mile, or 1.6 kilometers, on the Great Wall of China. He has also completed the fastest mile bouncing up and down on a pogo stick in Antarctica.
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