World Record

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q_y5gECA5xY Driving away from the devastating loss at the Patriots-Bills game in Foxborough last year, the seed of an obsession was planted. My coworker Alex tossed out a casual thought about what record he might tackle: “I got pretty good at flip cup in college.” (This would surprise no one who knows him). I figured

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f72D19Raweo There’s nothing quite like a blank piece of paper. The whole world is open. Every possibility. You can make anything. And in my case, I was going to make a paper airplane. And then another, and another, and another. As fast as I could for 60 minutes straight. You might associate paper airplanes with

Failing 59 times in a row teaches you a lot about stubbornness. When you set out to break a Guinness World Record, like the fastest hole of disc golf by a team of four, you expect a challenge. But standing on a skinny, PDGA-certified course at the crack of dawn, watching your opening throws sail

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LwW5rzTmGvM Balancing heavy objects on my chin or forehead is nothing new for me. I have balanced ladders, pool cues, and running chainsaws, but there is a deceptive simplicity to ordinary household items. A single roll of toilet paper weighs almost nothing. A few hundred of them, however, and you’re staring at a massive, wobbling

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IW0_8wx4B2c I have been playing a lot of catch with my 10-year-old son Jeremy. We have been playing baseball, football, and soccer (he sometimes plays goalie). When I saw the record for the furthest distance to throw and catch a water balloon, I immediately thought of him and asked him if he wanted to give

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xaj25wtSP_Q There is a distinct kind of chaos that unfolds when you put twelve people in a hallway, hand them a basket of t-shirts, and tell them that every movement is being scrutinized to make sure we all follow the rules. It was me, 10 other coworkers and a mentalist. We set out to break

https://youtube.com/shorts/s07J3QwqhlQ Hitting the 200th active Guinness World Records title is a milestone that changes your perspective. When my family and I gathered around the board to break the team Hungry Hungry Hippos record, it was about shared momentum, laughter, and building something together. Once we secured that team milestone, going after the individual record felt

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y6XBKtOy_38 There is an alchemy that happens when a childhood dram collides with adult life. For years, I looked at the glossy pages of Guinness World Records and saw an untouchable group of people. I imagined they were made from a different kind of marble, immune to the self-doubt that creeps in when you stare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU2X0vphJag This marathon was 12 years after my first (and once sworn to be last) marathon.. It also became a desperate, high-stakes battle against the limits of human physiology. When I set out to claim the record for the most t-shirts worn during a marathon, I was just trying to beat a number. Then I