I have written elsewhere that a free will means free to choose which action to put in motion, but it is not freedom of action, that nothing is blocking you from implementing or carrying out your plan. Liberty is when you enjoy freedom of action, where no tyrant obviates your ideas on how to live.
I also talk about what motive you should select of your own free will. Your motive can be self-interest or unselfishness, or other-interest or selfishness.
If you are self-interested because what you are doing will be in the best interests of yourself and others.
If you are other interested, what you will be doing is not in the best interest either or yourself or others.
You are not only free to select your motive, but you are free to choose what course to follow, or what specific action to select, based in your free will.
It then would seem that if you live as a fanatic, a non-individuator or a young teenager, ordinarily your free will is muted and not much relied upon, and you mostly will be compelled by inner and outer forces working on you, and both your motives, and the selecting of a range of actions to best meet that motive, are not selected by you.
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