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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: 84 votes (14.66%)
Disagree: 473 votes (82.55%)
Don't Know: 16 votes (2.79%)
Total Votes: 573
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 127 votes (23.01%)
Disagree: 407 votes (73.73%)
Don't know: 18 votes (3.26%)
Total Votes: 552
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1128 votes (90.82%)
Disagree: 80 votes (6.44%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.74%)
Total Votes: 1242
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1125 votes (92.06%)
Disagree: 60 votes (4.91%)
Don't know: 37 votes (3.03%)
Total Votes: 1222
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1120 votes (91.95%)
Disagree: 60 votes (4.93%)
Don't know: 38 votes (3.12%)
Total Votes: 1218
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1107 votes (90.29%)
Disagree: 86 votes (7.01%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.69%)
Total Votes: 1226
We learn from failure.
Agree: 519 votes (98.11%)
Disagree: 5 votes (0.95%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.95%)
Total Votes: 529
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1142 votes (94.38%)
Disagree: 35 votes (2.89%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.73%)
Total Votes: 1210
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 468 votes (91.94%)
Disagree: 33 votes (6.48%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.57%)
Total Votes: 509
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 501 votes (98.43%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.59%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.98%)
Total Votes: 509
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 504 votes (99.21%)
Disagree: 1 votes (0.2%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.59%)
Total Votes: 508
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 446 votes (88.32%)
Disagree: 40 votes (7.92%)
Don't Know: 19 votes (3.76%)
Total Votes: 505
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 329 votes (57.72%)
Did he actually?: 187 votes (32.81%)
Don't know: 54 votes (9.47%)
Total Votes: 570

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