Pratfall Affect
- When displaying vulnerability at workplace, it is important to be appearing competent first.
- Without competency, a display of vulnerability can reduce the percieved value of you as a professional.
- When you're competent, one would be perceiving you as somebody who is working 'inspite of' all that is going against you but without competency it becomes 'baggage' that is dragging you down.
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