The Inherited Self
You did not choose most of what you call yourself.
The conditioning began in infancy, before language, before consent. All a child can do is move and speak like the people around it, and that is why you know the language you know, and hold the ideas you hold. The paradigm you were born into installed itself quietly: family, culture, country, circumstance, repeated until it felt like you.
Most people spend their entire lives running that handed program and calling it their own life. The statistics on how few people live the way they actually want to live are not a mystery. They are the inherited self, operating exactly as installed.
The cure is not more information about the world. It is closer attention to the self. If you study your own mind, the biggest part of you is the part you will never see directly, and that is precisely why it must be studied in reflection: in the patterns of your days, in what you reach for under pressure, in what you defend without knowing why.
This is where remembrance begins. Not with becoming someone new, but with noticing what was present before the program, and is present still.