CV of Failures: Princeton Professor Publishes Resume of His Career Lows (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader shares a Guardian report: A professor at Princeton University has published a CV listing his career failures (PDF), in an attempt to "balance the record" and encourage others to keep trying in the face of disappointment. Johannes Haushofer, who is an assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at the university in New Jersey, posted his unusual CV on Twitter last week. The document contains sections titled Degree programs I did not get into , Research funding I did not get and Paper rejections from academic journals. Haushofer writes: Most of what I try fails, but these failures are often invisible, while the successes are visible. I have noticed that this sometimes gives others the impression that most things work out for me. As a result, they are more likely to attribute their own failures to themselves, rather than the fact that the world is stochastic, applications are crapshoots, and selection committees and referees have bad days. This CV of Failures is an attempt to balance the record and provide some perspective. He added another section called "Meta-Failures" to his resume, writing, "This darn CV of Failures has received way more attention than my entire body of academic work."

Comments

I like it

[Geoffrey.landis]

I like it!
It is an interesting thing that successes get more memory than failure, and hence you get an inaccurate impression of successful people just moving from one success to another. Remarking on the failures would give a somewhat more balanced view.

Great!

[Black Parrot]

Maybe Carly will be inspired to balance the record too, by publishing her successes.

Potty training

[PopeRatzo]

He's a psychology professor. He should make a CV of his parents' failings.