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A Princeton psychology professor has

posted his CV of failures online
His CV includes: Degree programs I did not get into, Academic
positions and fellowships I did not get, Research funding I did not
get among others.
Zlata Rodionova | 16 hours ago | !

A Princeton psychology professor has come up with a way to

show people that that their invisible failures and setbacks are as
important as their successes.
Johannes Haushofer, a princeton professor of Psychology and
Public Aairs, posted a CV of failures in an attempt to balance

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2010 Nature article by Melanie Stefan, a lecturer at the School of

Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She
suggested that keeping a visible record of your rejected
applications can help others to deal with setbacks

The document is divided in six parts including: Degree

programs I did not get into, Academic positions and fellowships
I did not get, Research funding I did not get among others.

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Our setbacks are invisible but they happen much more often
than our successes, he argues.
I have noticed that this sometimes gives others the impression
that most things work out for me, Haushofer said.
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, he added.

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If his resume of failures is short, it might be because his memory

is failing him, the professor said.
Haushofer post about his CV on failures was retweeted and liked
more than a hundred times as users created their own
#cvoailures.

I wrote my #cvoffailures yesterday and it somehow made

me feel better.
a. galvan (@dropvase) April 28, 2016
One user said For every paper accepted in Science and Nature, I
have seven rejections from them #CurriculumMortae
#CVofFailures.

For every paper accepted in Science and Nature, I have 7

rejections from them #CurriculumMortae #CVofFailures
Trevor A. Branch (@TrevorABranch) April 28, 2016
Another one tweeted: Rejection is part of life & proof of being

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In fact the CV of failures idea grew so popular that Haushofer

included it in his own resume as a meta-failure.
This darn CV of failures has received way more attention than
my entire body of academic work, Haushofer said.

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