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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Classic: Library of Mistakes

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A carefully curated collection of miscalculations in Edinburgh, Scotland serves as a warning for our gullibility, especially when it comes to money. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/library-of-mistakes

Transcript

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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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