"failure" simply put, is just verification of one particular way of doing something improperly.
think of it as a checklist of many possible ways to accomplish a certain thing:
1. This method doesn't work (failure)
2. This method doesn't work either (failure)
(maybe there are several more attempts and failures here also)
the last one you try is
always one of two things...
a) Success. No need to try any further methods.
or
b) last attempt was also a failure, and person has given up. Success is no longer possible for this particular thing because no further attempts are being made.
whether or not they are "giving up to fast" is vaguely speculative. By what measurement do we gauge the acceptable giving up point? Remember, giving up is not inherently a bad thing. Some things should be given up on. (or never attempted in the first place). However, if the goal is somewhat easily achievable and the person has given up after a single attempt, then I suppose that could be considered "giving up too fast" by a wide majority of people. Ultimately though, no standard exists with which to accurately measure failure based on early termination of attempt other than popular opinion.
