Acceptance and Will

[Unbound]

I want to bring in the basic idea of "Nature vs nurture" here, in light of the suggestion that humans are "naturally" STS. How much of an influence do these two things have on one's choice of the path, I wonder? Is someone who is abandoned and must naturally spend a lot of time alone inevitably going to walk the STS path? At what point does the Choice become a conscious decision? With that in mind, for the millions who are never aware of such teachings, how do they go about choosing without such an awareness of terms?