Regrets, I've Had a Few: 5 Books about Mistakes
Oh, this was not a good week for me. I sent an email attachment to approximately 500 people which contained a particularly stupid spelling error. That was bad. My worst mistake was worse, though. I scheduled a blog post to appear on the website and then didn't get around to writing it. So if you visited Toronto Public Library's website on Thursday morning between 8 AM and 12 PM, you may have clicked on our featured blog post: Book of the Week--Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann only to be greeted by a blank screen. The post was corrected by 12 PM when I arrived at work, but I felt incredibly foolish for the rest of the day.
These mistakes did not lead to either tragedy or triumph but I consoled myself with the knowledge that some errors have led to great things. Did you know that Chocolate Chip Cookies were invented accidentally? Ruth Graves Wakefield was baking chocolate cookies when she ran out of baker's chocolate. She substituted semi-sweet chocolate pieces believing that they would melt. The rest is history. Beloved by millions, chocolate chip cookies are good comfort food on those days when you make too many silly mistakes.
These are some of the books at Toronto Public Library about mistakes:
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100 Mistakes that Changed History: Backfires and Blunders that Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World by Bill Fawcett
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schultz
• eAudiobook
• eBook
Better by Mistake: the Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong by Alina Tugend
• eAudiobook
Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human by Michael and Ellen Kaplan
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that Changed our Understanding of Life and the Universe by Mario Livio
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
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