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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: 88 votes (14.72%)
Disagree: 494 votes (82.61%)
Don't Know: 16 votes (2.68%)
Total Votes: 598
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 134 votes (23.26%)
Disagree: 424 votes (73.61%)
Don't know: 18 votes (3.13%)
Total Votes: 576
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1149 votes (90.76%)
Disagree: 83 votes (6.56%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.69%)
Total Votes: 1266
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1145 votes (92.04%)
Disagree: 62 votes (4.98%)
Don't know: 37 votes (2.97%)
Total Votes: 1244
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1140 votes (91.94%)
Disagree: 62 votes (5%)
Don't know: 38 votes (3.06%)
Total Votes: 1240
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1127 votes (90.3%)
Disagree: 87 votes (6.97%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.72%)
Total Votes: 1248
We learn from failure.
Agree: 541 votes (98.01%)
Disagree: 6 votes (1.09%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.91%)
Total Votes: 552
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1160 votes (94.16%)
Disagree: 39 votes (3.17%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.68%)
Total Votes: 1232
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 491 votes (91.95%)
Disagree: 35 votes (6.55%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.5%)
Total Votes: 534
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 522 votes (98.31%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.75%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.94%)
Total Votes: 531
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 524 votes (98.87%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.57%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.57%)
Total Votes: 530
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 468 votes (88.8%)
Disagree: 40 votes (7.59%)
Don't Know: 19 votes (3.61%)
Total Votes: 527
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 347 votes (58.03%)
Did he actually?: 194 votes (32.44%)
Don't know: 57 votes (9.53%)
Total Votes: 598

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