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The objective of this research paper is to check the difference between pre and post-session of the Brighter Minds based Cognitive Skill Training. The exploratory and descriptive research design is used in this study. In this investigation, the nine measurement variables are selected for the study such as memory, confidence, concentration, intuition ability, and blindfold reading. All the measurement variables were tested under pre and post cognitive skill training. Apart from these behavioural variables, two variables, gender, and age were also measured. The paired t test is used for the comparison between the pre and post-session of cognitive skill training. The pie and bar chart is used for the pictorial presentation of the results. The data coding, value label, data analysis are performed through statistical software. The findings of this study concluded that there was a significant improvement in the student’s memory, confidence, concentration, intuition, and skill of reading and colour identification with a blindfold.

Komboltz’s happenstance learning theory (HLT) posits that uncertainty in the environment has a deep impact on occupational choices. Accordingly, the choice of occupation is the outcome of planned and unplanned events during the life cycle of a person. Through evidence from literature, this article draws theoretical strength to a conceptual framework in which the affective status of COVID-19-driven workers’ exodus (an unplanned event) could encourage them to undertake micro-entrepreneurship as an occupational choice. The framework extends the HLT by adding risk propensity in a mediating role and evaluates de-globalization and local innovation as exogenous changes in influencing micro-entrepreneurial initiatives. The interplay between affective status, risk propensity, and micro-entrepreneurship in light of de-globalization and local innovation is conceptualized uniquely, and in this manner, the study presents a novel application of HLT. As an outcome, the framework supports the idea that in a situation of forceful reverse migration, affective status along with risk propensity, in an environment of reducing globalization as well as local innovations, is advantageous for micro-entrepreneurship. The proposed framework offers insight into the productive engagement of COVID-19-driven workers’ exodus, thus abating the remigration of workers, which would be a win–win situation for rural and urban societies.

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