For many academic writers, permission to use personal pronouns comes as a tremendous relief. Referring to our actions in the first person (“I think”, “we discovered”) comes naturally to most humans; suppressing our own agency, by contrast, requires considerable syntactical effort and ingenuity.

Helen Sword, Stylish Academic Writing

C’est exactement ce que j’ai resenti quand j’ai compris que j’avais le droit d’utiliser la première personne: un grand soulagement.