Skip to Main Content
Skip to main content

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: 74 votes (15.29%)
Disagree: 396 votes (81.82%)
Don't Know: 14 votes (2.89%)
Total Votes: 484
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 112 votes (24.03%)
Disagree: 338 votes (72.53%)
Don't know: 16 votes (3.43%)
Total Votes: 466
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1059 votes (91.37%)
Disagree: 66 votes (5.69%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.93%)
Total Votes: 1159
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1052 votes (92.44%)
Disagree: 52 votes (4.57%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.99%)
Total Votes: 1138
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1039 votes (91.62%)
Disagree: 58 votes (5.11%)
Don't know: 37 votes (3.26%)
Total Votes: 1134
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1030 votes (90.03%)
Disagree: 82 votes (7.17%)
Don't know: 32 votes (2.8%)
Total Votes: 1144
We learn from failure.
Agree: 439 votes (97.99%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.89%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (1.12%)
Total Votes: 448
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1066 votes (94.42%)
Disagree: 30 votes (2.66%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.92%)
Total Votes: 1129
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 394 votes (91.84%)
Disagree: 27 votes (6.29%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.86%)
Total Votes: 429
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 423 votes (98.6%)
Disagree: 1 votes (0.23%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (1.17%)
Total Votes: 429
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 422 votes (99.06%)
Disagree: 1 votes (0.23%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.7%)
Total Votes: 426
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 377 votes (88.5%)
Disagree: 33 votes (7.75%)
Don't Know: 16 votes (3.76%)
Total Votes: 426
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 271 votes (56.34%)
Did he actually?: 163 votes (33.89%)
Don't know: 47 votes (9.77%)
Total Votes: 481

The University of Saskatchewan's main campus is situated on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis.

© University of Saskatchewan
Disclaimer|Privacy