I heard these thoughts about failure on Twitter today, and wanted to share them with you, too.<\/p>\n
It may help to know that Twitter<\/a> is a messaging system, with a 140 character limit on message size and rather informal. You’ll find me<\/a> there, too. These are unedited, just as they appeared. I bolded a few favorites.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n ChrisCree<\/a>: I get back up! (Oh, sure I might wallow for a bit. But I don’t stay down for long.)<\/p>\n <\/span>Graydancer<\/a>: You just keep going. Everything else does, after all. Inching along. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n KevinKS<\/a>: <\/span>I don’t fail. I “conclude a learning experience.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Randelaw<\/a>: you mean once the nightmare is finally over? Determine the errors in judgement and vow not to commit them again<\/span><\/p>\n ChelPixie<\/a>: if I fail I look to make sure I can’t fix it, absorb, take a deep breath and move on. <\/span><\/p>\n andreamercado<\/a>: post-mortem the problem, learn from mistakes, try again. :)<\/p>\n guy_david<\/a>:<\/span> After moving to something else, I sometimes come back and see it in a different perspective.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n ConnieReece<\/a>: <\/span>sometimes learning how NOT to do something is an invaluable prelude to figuring out the right way.<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span> <\/span>GrayDancer: of course I know when I should quit. Usually it’s a small-but-significant time before I actually do…<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>KevinKS: <\/span> “fail” quickly and with thanks, then get onto the next attempt.<\/span> 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.<\/p>\n If you like those, read more of our <\/span>series on failure<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? Get our updates<\/a>. Want more stories? Read our shared stories from all over<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I heard these thoughts about failure on Twitter today, and wanted to share them with you, too. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ChrisBrogan<\/a>: What do you do after you fail?<\/h3>\n
<\/span>MMcAllen<\/a>: I usually retreat and regroup then attack from a different formation or position.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Pistachio<\/a>: <\/span> fail again as soon & enthusiastically as possible,<\/span> until it works. ok that’s what i WANT to do, not always goes that way <\/p>\n
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<\/span>Vaspers<\/a>:<\/span> we have nothing to fear but success (i.e. scaling) itself. Then again, I’m a Zero Defects perfectionist. Fail = an experiment<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span>ConnieReece: <\/span> Thomas Edison did not get discouraged when experiments failed because each failure brought him one step closer to an invention that worked.<\/span>
<\/span><\/p>\nChrisBrogan: Follow-up question: do you know when to quit? Do you know when to call the whole thing off?<\/h3>\n
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.<\/p>\n
<\/span>goodthingscomin<\/a> I learn a lesson from failing. I adjust future endeavors. Quitting is something I have a hrd time with. But again, I’m learning<\/p>\n