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Cultivate Higher-Order Mental Skills

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This chapter helps marginalized and minority entrepreneurs understand the fundamental mental skills that underpin the code-breaking skills they need. Having pinpointed enabling personal qualities and strategies, it now encourages them to take their personal development to the next level by cultivating high-order mental skills. It does so by offering guidance on how they can do three related set of things better: think about how they are thinking, change how they think, and choosing a way of thinking that is most helpful for the situation at hand.

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  1. 1.

    John J. Flavell, “Metacognition and Cognitive Monitoring: A New Area of Cognitive-Developmental Inquiry,” American Psychologist, vol. 34, no. 10 (1979), pp. 906–911; Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor, Social Cognition, 2nd ed. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1991); J. Michael Haynie, Dean Shepherd, Elaine Mosakowski and Christopher Earley, “A Situated Metacognitive Model of the Entrepreneurial Mindset,” Journal of Business Venturing, vol. 25, no. 2 (2010), pp. 217–229; Thomas O. Nelson, “Consciousness and Metacognition,” American Psychologist, vol. 51, no. 2 (1996), pp. 102–129.

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    Haynie et al. (2010).

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    Ibid.

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    Ibid.

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Morgan, H.M. (2020). Cultivate Higher-Order Mental Skills. In: Underdog Entrepreneurs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20408-2_15

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