For too long, we have labored under the assumption that we have made freewilled decisions about our identity and our future. Now, I hope I have made my case that, most of the time, we aren’t exercising our free will at all. We have simply been selecting from a prescripted menu of choices based on our past. We haven’t yet begun to utilize our free will, and we haven’t taken full advantage of the gift that is our frontal lobe.
