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Self-knowledge can also be limited by family or culture rather than by geography. Some families (and some cultural traditions) curb the individual self-expression of young people to a significant degree (see Chapter 12). One's education, occupation, and even spouse may be chosen by others. More commonly, families may exert strong pressures on children to aim for certain educational objectives and follow certain career paths. My university, like many others, has numerous freshman premed students. Strangely, by senior year there are far fewer. In the most difficult kind of case, a student feels pressured by family expectations to be premed, and then by junior year realizes the skills, the interest, or both are missing and that it's time to decide on a new major, a new occupation, and a new path in life, which are all decisions that are better when they are based on self-knowledge rather than expectations from others. Need Assignment Help?