Meet the man with 181 Guinness World Records

Motivational speaker David Rush was looking for a way to share a message about perseverance when he came up with a zany idea: He would teach himself t...

Motivational speaker David Rush was looking for a way to share a message about perseverance when he came up with a zany idea: He would teach himself to juggle blindfolded, and go for the Guinness World Record.

He’d learned to juggle while he was in college, and it seemed like a fun way to draw attention while also making up for the times he’d tried and failed to juggle while jogging, he said.

Rush practiced juggling while blindfolded for weeks at his home in Boise, then in late 2015, he broke the world record with a time of 6 minutes 34 seconds. It was heady stuff.

Soon he decided that winning one Guinness title wasn’t enough. He wanted to break as many records as he could.

His 6½-minute juggling record eventually led to him juggling while blindfolded for more than an hour, and Rush also shattered scores of other Guinness World Records, each one more oddball than the last.