mistakes everyone makes them at one point I grew a handlebar mustache and kept it

for a surprisingly long time and unfortunately for me there is a fair bit of

photographic evidence of this floating around out there and looking back on

these photos at least in theory I might learn something and avoid making that

same mistake again and my friends who took these photos and can use them as

blackmail might also learn a lesson not to make the same mustache mistakes that

I did because ideally we can all learn not only from our own mistakes but from

mistakes of others that is the hope of Russell Napier who's dedicated the

better part of a decade to promoting that idea. The profession with the lowest

level of mistakes probably in the entire world are pilots because they leave a

full record of all the mistakes behind them and a thing called the black box.

Russell is not a pilot or a man with a handlebar mustache. He's a financial

investment advisor but he's also the founder and keeper of the library of

mistakes. You might want to think of the library of mistakes as that kind of

giant black box. I'm Don Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the

world's strange, incredible and wondrous places. Today we visit the library of

mistakes in Edinburgh Scotland to browse the card catalog of miscalculations.

After this.

The library of mistakes opened in 2014. You enter via a small alley in Edinburgh and

once inside you'll find a series of cozy robes. There are arm chairs and a

fireplace. There are board games with names like Ponzi scheme and Market

Meltdown. The bathroom walls are lined with bills from currencies that have

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