We are often machines that respond to stimuli in our environment. Maintaining integrity of response across many different circumstances is a matter of creating a personal, internal “environment” that supersedes the external ones we enter and leave.
You are never unsupervised if you create an agent of supervision within yourself. Sometimes our base nature requires reigning in; it is best that your higher nature is the one holding the reigns. Otherwise, someone else may have to pick them up.
The Opportunity Machine 