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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: 91 votes (14.4%)
Disagree: 525 votes (83.07%)
Don't Know: 16 votes (2.53%)
Total Votes: 632
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 143 votes (23.48%)
Disagree: 446 votes (73.23%)
Don't know: 20 votes (3.28%)
Total Votes: 609
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1174 votes (90.38%)
Disagree: 90 votes (6.93%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.69%)
Total Votes: 1299
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1175 votes (92.01%)
Disagree: 63 votes (4.93%)
Don't know: 39 votes (3.05%)
Total Votes: 1277
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1171 votes (92.13%)
Disagree: 62 votes (4.88%)
Don't know: 38 votes (2.99%)
Total Votes: 1271
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1160 votes (90.48%)
Disagree: 87 votes (6.79%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.73%)
Total Votes: 1282
We learn from failure.
Agree: 573 votes (98.12%)
Disagree: 6 votes (1.03%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.86%)
Total Votes: 584
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1192 votes (94.3%)
Disagree: 39 votes (3.09%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.61%)
Total Votes: 1264
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 522 votes (92.23%)
Disagree: 36 votes (6.36%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.41%)
Total Votes: 566
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 554 votes (98.23%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.71%)
Don't Know: 6 votes (1.06%)
Total Votes: 564
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 558 votes (98.94%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.53%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.53%)
Total Votes: 564
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 498 votes (88.45%)
Disagree: 43 votes (7.64%)
Don't Know: 22 votes (3.91%)
Total Votes: 563
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 368 votes (57.68%)
Did he actually?: 213 votes (33.39%)
Don't know: 57 votes (8.93%)
Total Votes: 638

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