MASTER Risk Model - Learning Resources - Mindset

Cognitive Adaptability

Journal about a time when rigid thinking blocked innovation—what might openness have created instead?

Reflect on your response to pivots—do you resist, explore, or experiment with new possibilities?

Describe a time you adapted to a surprise in your venture—what thinking helped you shift perspective?

Write about a belief you’ve outgrown as an entrepreneur—what influenced you to finally change your mind?

List three recent startup challenges—did you explore multiple angles or get stuck in just one?

Explore how curiosity shows up in your thinking—when do you ask “what if,” and when do you shut it down?

Emotional Adaptability

Reflect on a market change—what emotions came up, and how did you regulate or resist them?

Journal about your emotions during ambiguity in your venture—how do you usually feel, and what helps you adjust?

Explore your emotional triggers in entrepreneurship—when do you overreact, and what recurring patterns emerge?

Write about a time you navigated emotional change in your venture—what inner resources helped you adjust?

Compare how you felt at the start and end of a recent founder challenge—what changed emotionally?

Identify one area where you often shut down emotionally in your venture—what’s behind it, and how can you soften it?

Behavioral Adaptability

Journal about a time when shifting your approach helped your project succeed—what specific changes mattered?

Reflect on your go-to founder habits—where might they limit effectiveness when situations change?

Write down three venture situations where adapting would improve outcomes—what holds you back now?

Think of a founder who adapts behavior well—what traits or choices do they model you could practice?

Recall a time you failed to adapt in your venture—what was the cost, and how would you act differently now?

Track what adaptability means for you as a founder—compromise, creativity, or responsiveness? Why?

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