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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: 86 votes (14.6%)
Disagree: 487 votes (82.68%)
Don't Know: 16 votes (2.72%)
Total Votes: 589
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 131 votes (23.06%)
Disagree: 419 votes (73.77%)
Don't know: 18 votes (3.17%)
Total Votes: 568
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1144 votes (90.87%)
Disagree: 81 votes (6.43%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.7%)
Total Votes: 1259
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1139 votes (92%)
Disagree: 62 votes (5.01%)
Don't know: 37 votes (2.99%)
Total Votes: 1238
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1135 votes (91.98%)
Disagree: 61 votes (4.94%)
Don't know: 38 votes (3.08%)
Total Votes: 1234
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1121 votes (90.26%)
Disagree: 87 votes (7%)
Don't know: 34 votes (2.74%)
Total Votes: 1242
We learn from failure.
Agree: 534 votes (97.98%)
Disagree: 6 votes (1.1%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.92%)
Total Votes: 545
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1157 votes (94.37%)
Disagree: 36 votes (2.94%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.69%)
Total Votes: 1226
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 484 votes (91.84%)
Disagree: 35 votes (6.64%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.52%)
Total Votes: 527
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 516 votes (98.29%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.76%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.95%)
Total Votes: 525
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 518 votes (98.85%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.57%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.57%)
Total Votes: 524
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 462 votes (88.68%)
Disagree: 40 votes (7.68%)
Don't Know: 19 votes (3.65%)
Total Votes: 521
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 342 votes (58.06%)
Did he actually?: 192 votes (32.6%)
Don't know: 55 votes (9.34%)
Total Votes: 589

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