A competitive eater broke the 10-minute hot-dog record by ditching the belief that 25 was the max. He separated the dog from the bun, dunked the bun in water, and ate cabbage to stretch his stomach. He went from 25 to 50.
50. 50 hot dogs. He literally doubles the record. Now, how did he do it? Well, he did come up with a new technique. So he took the hot dog out of the bun, dunked the bun in the water so that it was smaller surface area. He could do it faster. He talked about how he would eat a lot of cabbage to stretch his stomach capacity. But before he did any of those things, what he had to change was his belief that it wasn't possible. Because the belief that he had and everyone The highest number of hot dogs you can eat in 10 minutes is 25. So the first thing he had to do is change that belief and ask himself a different question. Instead of, it's not possible to do more than 25, he had to ask, how could I eat more than 25? That's how he came up with a new technique.
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