Here's why this Princeton professor put up a resume of his career lows online

He hopes that this will give a perspective to students who are feeling discouraged.

Update: 2016-05-03 13:00 GMT
Assistant professor of psychology Johannes Haushofer says his regular resume gives the wrong impression that most things work out for him. (Screen grab)

A Princeton University professor has published a CV of his career failures as a way to give perspective to students who are feeling discouraged.

Johannes Haushofer writes atop the CV that most of what he tries fails, but those failures are often invisible. The assistant professor of psychology says it gives the wrong impression that most things work out for him, so people "are more likely to attribute their own failures to themselves."

The CV is divided into sections with titles like "Degree programs I did not get into" and "Academic positions and fellowships I did not get."

He says he got the idea from an article in the journal Nature.

The list ends with a "Meta-Failure" that the CV has received "way more attention" than his entire body of academic work.

Click here to read the CV

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