The real difficulty isn't recognizing that others' opinions exist—it's that our brains are wired to treat social pressure as a survival threat, making their voices feel louder than our own even when we intellectually know better. Jobs is pointing to something subtler than mere stubbornness: the question of whether you've actually *heard* your inner voice clearly enough to recognize it when it conflicts with consensus. A young person choosing a major against family expectations often discovers halfway through that they were never truly following their own conviction—they were simply rebelling, which is just another form of letting others' opinions dictate the choice. The work is in the quiet listening first, before the resistance.