Exactly. All those things affect us, and influence us, but lately we make the decision ourselves, whatever we are. Saying that your brain makes the decisions for you is often contradictory because the same people who affirm this usually believe that we are the brain, so it's just another way of saying that we make the decisions.

When you talk about genetics, are you talking about something that is you, or are you talking about something external to us?

And about memories, we decide whether to anchor ourselves to the past or to let go of it, but the past, which no longer exists, cannot influence us. The memories will continue to affect us as long as we hold onto them, but we can decide to release them whenever we want.