Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Have you ever heard of the Pratt Fall Effect?

The Pratt Fall Effect.

It's known in certain coaching circles, and I wanted to explain it to you today and maybe bring you some relief in your life.

Relief is the best feeling, isn't it?

This is really what I call letting it be easy.

How can I seek relief in this moment?

How can I lose the stress in my own head?

I've got to tell you something funny.

As a quick side note here, as I was reading, don't sweat the small stuff every day.

Stay tuned for Chris Carlson's latest interview on the podcast about this.

One chapter in this book, it's funny.

It says, purchase this stress-free t-shirt.

If you're wearing, whenever you're wearing this t-shirt, you'll have zero stress in your life,

apart from the stress you create in your own head.

Oh, I just thought that was so funny because, right, as Wayne Dyer used to say,

there is no stress in this world, only stressful thoughts. So on to the topic of today's episode, the Pratful Effect, essentially what it means.

It's that a person's likeability factor goes up after they display a floor or make a mistake, so long as,

and this is the caveat, so long as they are already perceived as competent or capable.

So if someone is respected in the workplace, for example, if they make a mistake or they reveal a floor about

themselves, we are far more likely to like that person. Isn't that wonderful? So think about it.

What if being a little messy showing those flaws of yours can make people like you more. I love, love, love this, because next time

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