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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: 98 votes (14.92%)
Disagree: 542 votes (82.5%)
Don't Know: 17 votes (2.59%)
Total Votes: 657
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 150 votes (23.7%)
Disagree: 462 votes (72.99%)
Don't know: 21 votes (3.32%)
Total Votes: 633
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1193 votes (90.24%)
Disagree: 94 votes (7.11%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.65%)
Total Votes: 1322
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1192 votes (91.76%)
Disagree: 67 votes (5.16%)
Don't know: 40 votes (3.08%)
Total Votes: 1299
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1192 votes (92.26%)
Disagree: 62 votes (4.8%)
Don't know: 38 votes (2.94%)
Total Votes: 1292
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1179 votes (90.55%)
Disagree: 88 votes (6.76%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.69%)
Total Votes: 1302
We learn from failure.
Agree: 593 votes (98.18%)
Disagree: 6 votes (0.99%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.83%)
Total Votes: 604
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1212 votes (94.39%)
Disagree: 39 votes (3.04%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.57%)
Total Votes: 1284
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 540 votes (92.15%)
Disagree: 38 votes (6.48%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.37%)
Total Votes: 586
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 573 votes (98.12%)
Disagree: 5 votes (0.86%)
Don't Know: 6 votes (1.03%)
Total Votes: 584
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 578 votes (98.97%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.51%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.51%)
Total Votes: 584
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 514 votes (88.16%)
Disagree: 46 votes (7.89%)
Don't Know: 23 votes (3.95%)
Total Votes: 583
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 384 votes (57.92%)
Did he actually?: 219 votes (33.03%)
Don't know: 60 votes (9.05%)
Total Votes: 663

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