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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: 77 votes (15.71%)
Disagree: 399 votes (81.43%)
Don't Know: 14 votes (2.86%)
Total Votes: 490
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 115 votes (24.42%)
Disagree: 340 votes (72.19%)
Don't know: 16 votes (3.4%)
Total Votes: 471
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1064 votes (91.41%)
Disagree: 66 votes (5.67%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.92%)
Total Votes: 1164
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1055 votes (92.3%)
Disagree: 54 votes (4.72%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.97%)
Total Votes: 1143
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1044 votes (91.66%)
Disagree: 58 votes (5.09%)
Don't know: 37 votes (3.25%)
Total Votes: 1139
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1034 votes (89.99%)
Disagree: 83 votes (7.22%)
Don't know: 32 votes (2.79%)
Total Votes: 1149
We learn from failure.
Agree: 444 votes (98.01%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.88%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (1.1%)
Total Votes: 453
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1070 votes (94.36%)
Disagree: 31 votes (2.73%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.91%)
Total Votes: 1134
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 399 votes (91.94%)
Disagree: 27 votes (6.22%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.84%)
Total Votes: 434
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 428 votes (98.62%)
Disagree: 1 votes (0.23%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (1.15%)
Total Votes: 434
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 427 votes (99.07%)
Disagree: 1 votes (0.23%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.7%)
Total Votes: 431
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 382 votes (88.63%)
Disagree: 33 votes (7.66%)
Don't Know: 16 votes (3.71%)
Total Votes: 431
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 274 votes (56.38%)
Did he actually?: 165 votes (33.95%)
Don't know: 47 votes (9.67%)
Total Votes: 486

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