An esteemed professor of psychology, Johannes Haushofer, posted his CV on twitter last week to much acclaim. It was certainly a CV with a difference. Rather than the normal bragging list of successes, it outlined his failures. The CV included sections on the degree programs he didn’t get into, funding he failed to secure, papers rejected by journals and, even, meta-failures. Haushofer’s aim was to balance the record. “Most of what I try fails,” he said, “but these failures are often invisible...