MASTER Risk Model - Learning Resources - Mindset

Limiting Beliefs

Write down one limiting belief about your academic ability—replace it with a fact you can act on today.

Say aloud a strength of yours that disproves an academic doubt. Repeat it with confidence.

Choose a simple task you’ve avoided due to doubt—start it and set a ten-minute timer to stay focused.

Put a sticky note on your desk with a positive counter-belief. Read it before every study session.

Swap negative self-talk with a “What if I can?” statement—test it in a safe academic setting.

Visualize yourself succeeding at something academic you believe you can’t do—notice how it feels.

Empowering Beliefs

Choose one empowering belief about your studies and write it on a notecard to review before exams.

Repeat an empowering belief in front of a mirror each morning—focus on tone, posture, and eye contact.

Create a phone lock screen with an empowering belief about your studies to reinforce this week.

Share an empowering belief on your class group chat—something that drives your current approach.

Choose a belief that energizes you—apply it to your thesis challenge and notice the mindset shift.

Start your day writing one empowering belief and one action it inspires in your studies.

Opportunity beliefs

Pick one current research challenge and list three possible opportunities it could open this semester.

Start your study day by asking: “Where could today’s biggest obstacle become today’s biggest opportunity?”

Revisit a current paper and identify one overlooked angle you could explore starting today.

In your next study group, reframe a peer’s concern as an opportunity in one clear sentence.

Scan your to-do list and label one task as an “opportunity zone” for skill growth this week.

Set a five-minute timer to brainstorm new opportunity angles on a recent academic setback.

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