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JumpStart Your Learning Tutorial: Test Your Assumptions

Test Your Assumptions

Complete the following poll to see what assumptions you and others might have about the traits that predict success.

Note: This is not a quiz and the popular vote is not necessarily the right answer.  Click Don't Know if you would like more information.

Poll

Success is about talent.
Agree: 93 votes (14.37%)
Disagree: 537 votes (83%)
Don't Know: 17 votes (2.63%)
Total Votes: 647
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 146 votes (23.4%)
Disagree: 457 votes (73.24%)
Don't know: 21 votes (3.37%)
Total Votes: 624
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1187 votes (90.4%)
Disagree: 91 votes (6.93%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.67%)
Total Votes: 1313
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1187 votes (91.94%)
Disagree: 64 votes (4.96%)
Don't know: 40 votes (3.1%)
Total Votes: 1291
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1185 votes (92.22%)
Disagree: 62 votes (4.82%)
Don't know: 38 votes (2.96%)
Total Votes: 1285
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1173 votes (90.58%)
Disagree: 87 votes (6.72%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.7%)
Total Votes: 1295
We learn from failure.
Agree: 586 votes (98.16%)
Disagree: 6 votes (1.01%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.84%)
Total Votes: 597
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1205 votes (94.36%)
Disagree: 39 votes (3.05%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.58%)
Total Votes: 1277
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 533 votes (92.06%)
Disagree: 38 votes (6.56%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.38%)
Total Votes: 579
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 567 votes (98.27%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.69%)
Don't Know: 6 votes (1.04%)
Total Votes: 577
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 571 votes (98.96%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.52%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.52%)
Total Votes: 577
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 509 votes (88.52%)
Disagree: 44 votes (7.65%)
Don't Know: 22 votes (3.83%)
Total Votes: 575
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 378 votes (57.8%)
Did he actually?: 216 votes (33.03%)
Don't know: 60 votes (9.17%)
Total Votes: 654

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