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# Why Isn't a Maladaptive Ready for Mastery

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**Page type:** Troubleshooting\
**Status:** Draft\
**Owner:** Compassly Documentation Team\
**Last verified:** 2026-04-06

## Symptom

The maladaptive is still staying in **In progress**, or it is not available to master yet.

## Likely causes

* The **Baseline Value** has not been calculated yet.
* The **Target** requirement has not been met.
* The required **Number of team members** has not been met on a required day.
* The required **Number of days** has not been met.
* The criteria were not all met at the same time.
* Too few team members met the target individually on one of the required days.
* The current mastery run reset because the mastery criteria were changed.
* The current mastery run reset because the maladaptive was archived.
* A required day in the sequence did not meet the mastery rules.
* One or more days had no tracked data, so the streak did not advance on those dates.

## Resolution

1. Open **Data tracking & graph** for the maladaptive.
2. Review the baseline and mastery information shown on the graph page.
3. Confirm the baseline period has finished and the baseline value is available.
4. Confirm the current target, number of team members, and number of days are set correctly.
5. Check whether enough team members met the target individually on each qualifying day.
6. Continue tracking attempts until all mastery criteria are met together.
7. Avoid changing mastery criteria in the middle of an active mastery run unless a reset is intended.
8. Check whether any days in the range had no tracked data and were skipped.
9. If the maladaptive was archived during the process, return it to the correct working state and restart tracking as needed.

## What to expect

* Once the maladaptive meets all mastery criteria together, it becomes available for manual mastery confirmation.
* After a qualified user confirms mastery, it moves to **Mastered**.
* Days with no tracked data do not count as passes or fails.

## Related guides

* [Understand Maladaptive Mastery](/compassly-docs/core-modules/clients/maladaptives/understand-maladaptive-mastery.md)
* [Master Maladaptive](/compassly-docs/core-modules/clients/maladaptives/master-maladaptive.md)
* [Master Maladaptives in Batch](/compassly-docs/core-modules/clients/maladaptives/master-maladaptives-in-batch.md)
* [Track Data and View Graph for Maladaptive](/compassly-docs/core-modules/clients/maladaptives/track-data-and-view-graph-for-maladaptive.md)


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