Learning about assertivity.

passivity  -  assertiveness  -  aggressiveness

Assertive people

Assertive people tend to have the following characteristics:

• They feel free to express their feelings, thoughts, and desires.
• They are "also able to initiate and maintain comfortable relationships with [other] people"
• They know their rights.
• They have control over their anger. This does not mean that they repress this feeling; it means that they control anger and talk about it in a reasoning manner.
• "Assertive people ... are willing to compromise with others, rather than always wanting their own way ... and tend to have good self-esteem".
• "Assertive people enter friendships from an 'I count my needs. I count your needs' position".

^{Assertivity  is}
                            a learnable skill and mode of communication.