Johannes Haushofer professor at the distinguished Princeton University published a CV with failures. In his CV of failures’ are listings of scholarships, training places and academic positions he did not get and papers rejected by scientific journals. With this he wants to show that successful people also have to go through the dust and success goes together with trial and error. Another lesson he wants to pass on is that we shouldn't always attribute failure to ourselves, but that the world is unpredictable and rejections are sometimes beyond one's control.