Definitely the ability to sometimes step aside and watch yourself before you say something, before you act in a way, can prevent you from making mistakes. The ability to step away from the emotion, to step aside and observe yourself, so you can go into a position of observing yourself. The observer can still take a decision if you like the movie or not. But if you're going to act inside the movie, you cannot decide anymore, cause then somebody's already telling: Now it's time to be angry!