"Listen to me! I'm an expert." Who talks like that? It sounds tacky, but every act of thought leadership is an act of aggression. Pay attention—I've got this figured out. Well, I don't. I encountered Socrates' "All I know is that I know nothing" far too early in life. Ever since then, I've been seeing things through the lens of my epistemological crisis and a (hopefully) thoughtful uncertainty. (TBH I don't know any other way - I don’t understand cocksure ignorance. ) Even if I did tell you that I was an expert, I'd be lying. I am not an expert, I just think. Sure, I write, research, and edit, but I aim at making the text sing. :-) Singing and aggression go well together in certain genres, and while I like that genre, I like the blues and jazz kind of singing a lot more. So no aggression for me - no banging my fists against the Dias. I like thinking but musically.