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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: 71 votes (15.17%)
Disagree: 384 votes (82.05%)
Don't Know: 13 votes (2.78%)
Total Votes: 468
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 109 votes (24.12%)
Disagree: 327 votes (72.35%)
Don't know: 16 votes (3.54%)
Total Votes: 452
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1047 votes (91.36%)
Disagree: 65 votes (5.67%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.97%)
Total Votes: 1146
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1039 votes (92.44%)
Disagree: 51 votes (4.54%)
Don't know: 34 votes (3.02%)
Total Votes: 1124
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1028 votes (91.62%)
Disagree: 57 votes (5.08%)
Don't know: 37 votes (3.3%)
Total Votes: 1122
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1017 votes (89.92%)
Disagree: 82 votes (7.25%)
Don't know: 32 votes (2.83%)
Total Votes: 1131
We learn from failure.
Agree: 426 votes (97.93%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.92%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (1.15%)
Total Votes: 435
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1053 votes (94.35%)
Disagree: 30 votes (2.69%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.96%)
Total Votes: 1116
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 382 votes (91.83%)
Disagree: 26 votes (6.25%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.92%)
Total Votes: 416
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 410 votes (98.56%)
Disagree: 1 votes (0.24%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (1.2%)
Total Votes: 416
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 409 votes (99.03%)
Disagree: 1 votes (0.24%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.73%)
Total Votes: 413
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 368 votes (88.89%)
Disagree: 31 votes (7.49%)
Don't Know: 15 votes (3.62%)
Total Votes: 414
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 262 votes (56.22%)
Did he actually?: 160 votes (34.33%)
Don't know: 44 votes (9.44%)
Total Votes: 466

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