Flaunting our Failures?

The New York Times had a recent, thought-provoking article for perfectionists, overachievers, those with impostor syndrome, and any combination of the above. "Do you Keep a Failure Resume?" is a great reminder that chronicling our failures (something that isn't encouraged in medicine) can help us determine what the operational roadblocks were to our successes so that we avoid those obstacles in the future. (Perhaps the issue was lack of preparation or speeding through a project unnecessarily.) Reviewed in retrospect, an "anti-portfolio" is also a good reminder that a failure is sometimes the first step to a success in another realm.