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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: 93 votes (14.58%)
Disagree: 528 votes (82.76%)
Don't Know: 17 votes (2.66%)
Total Votes: 638

Talent is inherited.
Agree: 144 votes (23.41%)
Disagree: 451 votes (73.33%)
Don't know: 20 votes (3.25%)
Total Votes: 615

Talent comes with deliberate practice.
Agree: 1179 votes (90.41%)
Disagree: 90 votes (6.9%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.68%)
Total Votes: 1304

Varying degrees of success are determined by grit, not talent.
Agree: 1178 votes (91.89%)
Disagree: 64 votes (4.99%)
Don't know: 40 votes (3.12%)
Total Votes: 1282

Having grit is practicing even when practice isn't fun.
Agree: 1176 votes (92.16%)
Disagree: 62 votes (4.86%)
Don't know: 38 votes (2.98%)
Total Votes: 1276

Perseverance and passion are the personality traits of grit.
Agree: 1165 votes (90.52%)
Disagree: 87 votes (6.76%)
Don't know: 35 votes (2.72%)
Total Votes: 1287

We learn from failure.
Agree: 578 votes (98.13%)
Disagree: 6 votes (1.02%)
Don't Know: 5 votes (0.85%)
Total Votes: 589

Failure is normal.
Agree: 1197 votes (94.33%)
Disagree: 39 votes (3.07%)
Don't know: 33 votes (2.6%)
Total Votes: 1269

Failure does not define who you are.
Agree: 526 votes (92.12%)
Disagree: 37 votes (6.48%)
Don't Know: 8 votes (1.4%)
Total Votes: 571

Having a growth mindset can help you overcome failure.
Agree: 559 votes (98.24%)
Disagree: 4 votes (0.7%)
Don't Know: 6 votes (1.05%)
Total Votes: 569

Making mistakes helps us learn.
Agree: 563 votes (98.95%)
Disagree: 3 votes (0.53%)
Don't Know: 3 votes (0.53%)
Total Votes: 569

Perceiving difficulties as a struggle instead of a challenge can lead to failure.
Agree: 502 votes (88.38%)
Disagree: 44 votes (7.75%)
Don't Know: 22 votes (3.87%)
Total Votes: 568

Thomas Edison said that "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
Agree: 372 votes (57.76%)
Did he actually?: 214 votes (33.23%)
Don't know: 58 votes (9.01%)
Total Votes: 644