Assertiveness

Just reading through some of the links to assertiveness websites and although I have looked at assertiveness before, art college definitely addresses new areas of my life in regard to assertiveness. I like the whole concept of fogging which sounds weird but in practice is supposed to reduce the sensitivity of the person being commented upon. Relating this to art and the showing/ discussion of my own work this would be really helpful because I cant think of anything worse than having to talk about my own work or having to defend it from a critical audience.