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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: 90 votes (14.9%)
Disagree: 498 votes (82.45%)
Don't Know: 16 votes (2.65%)
Total Votes: 604
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 135 votes (23.2%)
Disagree: 429 votes (73.71%)
Don't know: 18 votes (3.09%)
Total Votes: 582
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1154 votes (90.79%)
Disagree: 83 votes (6.53%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.68%)
Total Votes: 1271
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1149 votes (91.99%)
Disagree: 62 votes (4.96%)
Don't know: 38 votes (3.04%)
Total Votes: 1249
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1144 votes (91.96%)
Disagree: 62 votes (4.98%)
Don't know: 38 votes (3.05%)
Total Votes: 1244
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1133 votes (90.28%)
Disagree: 87 votes (6.93%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.79%)
Total Votes: 1255
We learn from failure.
Agree: 546 votes (98.03%)
Disagree: 6 votes (1.08%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.9%)
Total Votes: 557
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1165 votes (94.18%)
Disagree: 39 votes (3.15%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.67%)
Total Votes: 1237
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 496 votes (92.02%)
Disagree: 35 votes (6.49%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.48%)
Total Votes: 539
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 527 votes (98.14%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.74%)
Don't Know: 6 votes (1.12%)
Total Votes: 537
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 529 votes (98.88%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.56%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.56%)
Total Votes: 535
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 471 votes (88.04%)
Disagree: 43 votes (8.04%)
Don't Know: 21 votes (3.93%)
Total Votes: 535
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 350 votes (57.85%)
Did he actually?: 198 votes (32.73%)
Don't know: 57 votes (9.42%)
Total Votes: 605

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