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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: 91 votes (14.47%)
Disagree: 522 votes (82.99%)
Don't Know: 16 votes (2.54%)
Total Votes: 629
Talent is inherited.
Agree: 142 votes (23.43%)
Disagree: 444 votes (73.27%)
Don't know: 20 votes (3.3%)
Total Votes: 606
Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1172 votes (90.43%)
Disagree: 89 votes (6.87%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.7%)
Total Votes: 1296
Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1172 votes (91.99%)
Disagree: 63 votes (4.95%)
Don't know: 39 votes (3.06%)
Total Votes: 1274
Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1168 votes (92.11%)
Disagree: 62 votes (4.89%)
Don't know: 38 votes (3%)
Total Votes: 1268
Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1157 votes (90.46%)
Disagree: 87 votes (6.8%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.74%)
Total Votes: 1279
We learn from failure.
Agree: 570 votes (98.11%)
Disagree: 6 votes (1.03%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.86%)
Total Votes: 581
Failure is normal.
Agree: 1189 votes (94.29%)
Disagree: 39 votes (3.09%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.62%)
Total Votes: 1261
Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 519 votes (92.18%)
Disagree: 36 votes (6.39%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.42%)
Total Votes: 563
Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 551 votes (98.22%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.71%)
Don't Know: 6 votes (1.07%)
Total Votes: 561
Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 555 votes (98.93%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.53%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.53%)
Total Votes: 561
Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 495 votes (88.39%)
Disagree: 43 votes (7.68%)
Don't Know: 22 votes (3.93%)
Total Votes: 560
Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 364 votes (57.41%)
Did he actually?: 213 votes (33.6%)
Don't know: 57 votes (8.99%)
Total Votes: 634

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