If I feel that I've gone down the path of nice-blokeship, I quite like to remind myself, and others, that I actually can be a bit of an arsehole.
Just trying to get it to feel like it's not acting is very important to me. Sometimes I think, in a split second, 'Yes, I really know how to do this,' and I can see all the fall-out of it being a success. And then, in the process of doing it, it's just an exercise in major arse-twitching.