It may help to know that Twitter is a messaging system, with a 140 character limit on message size and rather informal. You'll find me there, too. These are unedited, just as they appeared. I bolded a few favorites.
ChrisBrogan: What do you do after you fail?
ChrisCree: I get back up! (Oh, sure I might wallow for a bit. But I don't stay down for long.)
Graydancer: You just keep going. Everything else does, after all. Inching along.
MMcAllen: I usually retreat and regroup then attack from a different formation or position.
Pistachio: fail again as soon & enthusiastically as possible, until it works. ok that's what i WANT to do, not always goes that way
guy_david: After I fail, I stop to access. If there's another way, I try it. If there is no other way, I move on to something else.
KevinKS: I don't fail. I "conclude a learning experience."
dotboom: After I fail, I try to succeed at something larger, and even more improbably.
Randelaw: you mean once the nightmare is finally over? Determine the errors in judgement and vow not to commit them again
ChelPixie: if I fail I look to make sure I can't fix it, absorb, take a deep breath and move on.
Vaspers: we have nothing to fear but success (i.e. scaling) itself. Then again, I'm a Zero Defects perfectionist. Fail = an experiment
Chuckumentary: I failed repeatedly all week. I just knew Friday the 13th would turn my luck around. I get PO'd when I fail, but channel it...?
misc: *after* i fail? you're assuming i've stopped!
geosteph: about 14 years ago I 'failed' my Ph.D program in geology...and found my perfect career! so far living very happily ever after!
Mobasoft: Failure is only an opinion - typically one which is given by those who are weak in spirit and drive.
andreamercado: post-mortem the problem, learn from mistakes, try again. :)
guy_david: After moving to something else, I sometimes come back and see it in a different perspective.
ConnieReece: sometimes learning how NOT to do something is an invaluable prelude to figuring out the right way.andreamercado: post-mortem the problem, learn from mistakes, try again. :)
mochant: when I was a ski instructor I told students that if you didn't have one great wipeout each day you weren't trying hard enuf.
guy_david: After moving to something else, I sometimes come back and see it in a different perspective.
ConnieReece: Thomas Edison did not get discouraged when experiments failed because each failure brought him one step closer to an invention that worked.
timcoyne: as an actor/writer in LA, "failure" is a constant. the biggest danger is getting used to failure. tricky balance.
ChrisBrogan: Follow-up question: do you know when to quit? Do you know when to call the whole thing off?
ChelPixie: No I don't know when to quit. Let's just say I like to fix things. It takes me a while to give up on something as lost.
GrayDancer: of course I know when I should quit. Usually it's a small-but-significant time before I actually do...
BassGhost: when I run out of alternate approaches.
KevinKS: "fail" quickly and with thanks, then get onto the next attempt.
goodthingscomin I learn a lesson from failing. I adjust future endeavors. Quitting is something I have a hrd time with. But again, I'm learning
misc: as for quitting, as i was telling chelpixie earlier, i plan to throw in my towels as soon as i can procure a big enough hamper.
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