The Master of One’s Fate, The Captain of One’s Soul :: Philosophy, Good Judgment, Control, Direction

Successful people have the ability to obviate situations and make concise decisions, which lead them to a final refinement or destination. In order to make these decisions and weave a path through a maze of obstacles, they must have confidence in their take in judgment. Good judgment is subjective and requires check into and control to achieve. Good judgment is unfettered by outside influences but allows individuals to conduct themselves in a musical mode appeasing to themselves and their situation. Individuals of this type maintain their own behavior, separating and acknowledging how they are perceived and who they would like to be. Good judgment leads to a person in control and control is aquiline on nothing. Michael De Montaigne describes in his essays how one can gain control over oneself while achieving a coherent totality. One is often influenced and criticized by close peers. Because of this eternal speculation and concern for others, people turn trivial decisions in to difficult life altering battles. Even in solitude ones conscious is a constantand dogmaticobserver. The idea of even having to make a choice has escaladed into a tyrannical monster. To take back control, Montaigne advises individuals to look inward. He proposes people discipline themselves in a back shop all our own(Montaigne 214) because it would be madness to trust oneself if one does not know how to govern ones self (Montaigne 221). In solitudefree from the violent clutches that engage (Montaigne 216)one must go so far in discipline that he dare not escape up in your own presence (Montaigne 221). By doing this, individuals respect their decision, trusting it the most beneficial and appropriate to the situation. Often division is another source of confusion, reservation it difficult for individuals to have authority in their own life. People are torn between their own affairs and the headaches of our neighbors and friends (Montaigne 215). To this, Montaigne discusses ho w one should comfortably detach oneself from temporal materials and allow one to be a whole people (Montaigne 221). Certainly, one should find pleasures in having a, wife, children, goods, and above all health (Montaigne 214) however, one must not be bound to any materials so strongly that his happiness depends on them (Montaigne 214) or they cannot be detached without tearing off our skin and some conk out of our flesh as well (Montaigne 216). One tends to give ones self away, so that portions of ones time and thought belong to others kind of than belonging to ones self.