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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Mistakes, everyone makes them. |
0:05.9 | At one point I grew a handlebar mustache and kept it for a surprisingly long time. |
0:11.5 | And unfortunately for me, there is a fair bit of photographic evidence of this floating |
0:15.1 | around out there. |
0:16.7 | And looking back on these photos, at least in theory, I might learn something and avoid |
0:21.8 | making that same mistake again. |
0:24.8 | When my friends who took these photos and can use them as blackmail, might also learn |
0:29.6 | a lesson, not to make the same mustache mistakes that I did. |
0:35.3 | Because ideally, we can all learn not only from our own mistakes, but from the mistakes |
0:41.0 | of others. |
0:42.2 | That is the hope of Russell Napier, who has dedicated the better part of a decade to promoting |
0:49.2 | that idea. |
0:50.8 | The profession with the lowest level of mistakes, probably in the entire world, are pilots. |
0:56.9 | Because they leave a full record of all the mistakes behind them in a thing called the |
1:00.6 | black box. |
1:02.1 | Russell is not a pilot or a man with a handlebar mustache. |
1:06.5 | He's a financial investment advisor, but he's also the founder and keeper of the library |
1:12.5 | of mistakes. |
1:13.7 | You might want to think of the library of mistakes as that kind of giant black box. |
1:21.7 | I'm Don Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, |
1:26.8 | incredible and wondrous places. |
1:29.3 | Today, we visit the Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh, Scotland, to browse the card catalog |
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