How Do You Overcome Your Social Programming?

I think it's hard to recognize that what you're moving towards is different than a goal you would set for yourself. And once I admit that, then I can reflect on how much influence are these outside ideas having on the decisions about where I want to go. The idea that none of us come to our ideas in a vacuum,. What I think are my ideas are ideas that I have put together from everything that I've learned up until this point.