Another solution I've heard for this problem is to not look the other person in the eye and just look passed/through them without faltering. IIRC, this comes across as an assertion of dominance and the other party will submit and move aside. I don't actually know if this works :P Also, I assume there's a hilarious edge case where two super-assertive people just walk into each other.
Or you could just say that this is an assertion of “I am intelligent enough to pick the path I would like to go given the fact that the choice of a path is irrelevant for both of us”.
The fact that you lack confidence doesn’t suddenly make others alpha fe/males.
