Melanie Stefan

If you're a young football player and something doesn't work out, you know that you're not the first person that that happens to, because it happened to Ronaldinho. As a scientist, it's kind of the other way around, right? Like, failures are not discussed in public.

I had been to a lot of talks and a lot of conferences and things like that, and speakers, famous, big, you know, important scientists get introduced. with like a CV and it's all like, I did a PhD at this awesome place and they posted at this awesome place and then they were hired and they got this grant and blah, blah, blah, you know. And so when you fail...

I had been to a lot of talks and a lot of conferences and things like that, and speakers, famous, big, you know, important scientists get introduced. with like a CV and it's all like, I did a PhD at this awesome place and they posted at this awesome place and then they were hired and they got this grant and blah, blah, blah, you know. And so when you fail...

I had been to a lot of talks and a lot of conferences and things like that, and speakers, famous, big, you know, important scientists get introduced. with like a CV and it's all like, I did a PhD at this awesome place and they posted at this awesome place and then they were hired and they got this grant and blah, blah, blah, you know. And so when you fail...

you kind of feel like you're the only person that that happens to. You feel extremely alone with it. And so this is why I thought, well, maybe we could use a little bit more public discussion of that. And my idea was that scientists who are famous and big and successful could actually publish their CV of failures in order to give younger scientists a bit more perspective.

you kind of feel like you're the only person that that happens to. You feel extremely alone with it. And so this is why I thought, well, maybe we could use a little bit more public discussion of that. And my idea was that scientists who are famous and big and successful could actually publish their CV of failures in order to give younger scientists a bit more perspective.

you kind of feel like you're the only person that that happens to. You feel extremely alone with it. And so this is why I thought, well, maybe we could use a little bit more public discussion of that. And my idea was that scientists who are famous and big and successful could actually publish their CV of failures in order to give younger scientists a bit more perspective.

So I started my CV of failures and then I have to say, honestly, there were too many failures to keep track of after a while.

So I started my CV of failures and then I have to say, honestly, there were too many failures to keep track of after a while.

So I started my CV of failures and then I have to say, honestly, there were too many failures to keep track of after a while.

Johannes Haushofer published his CV of failures and he was a Princeton professor. So now it was a big thing because someone who was clearly objectively very successful stepped forward and said, well, here are the things that I failed at. They did it on social media and it became quite the trend. I mean, not viral in the sense that viral things get viral, but like, you know, science viral.

Johannes Haushofer published his CV of failures and he was a Princeton professor. So now it was a big thing because someone who was clearly objectively very successful stepped forward and said, well, here are the things that I failed at. They did it on social media and it became quite the trend. I mean, not viral in the sense that viral things get viral, but like, you know, science viral.

Johannes Haushofer published his CV of failures and he was a Princeton professor. So now it was a big thing because someone who was clearly objectively very successful stepped forward and said, well, here are the things that I failed at. They did it on social media and it became quite the trend. I mean, not viral in the sense that viral things get viral, but like, you know, science viral.

He had said that he had a CV of failures for a few years and occasionally just sent it to people who needed it. Maybe a friend who had just experienced a rejection or a failure. And so as a way of saying, look, this happens to everyone. And I'm sure that he didn't expect such a big impact, but there was.

He had said that he had a CV of failures for a few years and occasionally just sent it to people who needed it. Maybe a friend who had just experienced a rejection or a failure. And so as a way of saying, look, this happens to everyone. And I'm sure that he didn't expect such a big impact, but there was.

He had said that he had a CV of failures for a few years and occasionally just sent it to people who needed it. Maybe a friend who had just experienced a rejection or a failure. And so as a way of saying, look, this happens to everyone. And I'm sure that he didn't expect such a big impact, but there was.