Question about free choice

A lot of light.

I would like to raise the troubling issue with him, as someone whose words have enlightened my eyes many times.

Regarding free choice. How can one understand the issue of choice and the fact that a person acts as he wishes without a coercive element?

After all, a person who grows up in a certain cultural environment will, for the most part, not deviate in his perception and understanding from the world he was exposed to and educated in. And if there was a coercive and coercive element in education, is the person able to break through this framework? Doesn't the fear of being different and the desire to be similar cause a person to continue what he was educated to?

We are by nature herd and conformist creatures. Most people will continue what they were raised to do. Even those who break through barriers for the better, it turns out, also stem from an element in their personality.

If so, are we really free in our choices?

With great respect and gratitude,