Summary: We’re all drowning in too much information in this digital age. We often feel trapped or even paralyzed by all these distractions while we let the system control our lives. But if you want to succeed today, you need to stop choking and take action.<br> In this episode, William Treseder, author of Reset, shares his life altering lessons that he learned during a career that took him from the battlefields of Iraq in Afghanistan, to the board rooms of Silicon Valley.<br> We will talk about how you can personally transform and improve your life through determined action. By creating habits that lead to breakthroughs and power you past your choke points. By harnessing your own unique talents, William believes that you can accomplish more than you ever dreamed of.<br> William has educated and mentored thousands of entrepreneurs all around the world through partners such as Stanford University, GE, and Singularity University and has even helped governments and large organizations solve major problems. If you’re ready, it’s time to reset and reconnect with the world.<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reset-Building-Purpose-Digital-Distraction-ebook/dp/B07H46PFF1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Get William’s new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reset-Building-Purpose-Digital-Distraction-ebook/dp/B07H46PFF1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reset</a> on Amazon.<br> <br> <br> William Treseder: In August of 2012, I was newly fired from a company that had basically imploded, the investors had pulled out and not paid any of the employees for several months of back pay, just broke up with a girl, I didn’t have a place to live, and was kind of in route to crashing in my brother’s apartment in upper haven San Francisco.<br> I was looking back on a military and college career that I thought would have taken me someplace very different. This was about six months after I finished school and I felt like I was flailing and had not had anything figured out. Silicon Valley is a place where everything seems like it’s happening all the time and opportunities are everywhere.<br> I knew that I wasn’t taking advantage of any of the opportunities that were around me—that was quite obvious from my first crash and burn after college, despite the fact that I finished it. I was 29 at the time because I had long six years in the marine corps. It was a very hard thing for me to deal with, the realization that I didn’t really know what I needed to do to succeed, and it felt like there were all these wonderful opportunities passing by all the time constantly and they were all just out of reach.<br> <br> Some helplessness, a lot of anxiety, and soul searching. <br> <br> That took me from 2012 to now, six years later, and my life is different in some ways but more than anything else, I just keep going back to that feeling that there are always opportunities and I’m not taking advantage of any of them. I’m pretty good at the things that I’m supposed to be pretty good at, but there was this feeling of mismatch between the stuff I could do and the stuff that was actually useful.<br> The stuff that people actually wanted to see me do in order to be valuable, to be desired, to be recognized, to be rewarded, incentivized, however you want to think about that. Does that make sense?<br> <br> Charlie Hoehn: To have your place, yeah, to feel a part of society when you’ve done all these things that you were supposed to do to fit in and is that part of it?<br> William Treseder: Absolutely. In the broader sense, I had always been someone who didn’t quite fit in. I grew up with a family that was very conservative in a very liberal town, it is a college town in northern California. That didn’t quite work and then when I was enlisted in the military, I was a very liberal person in a very conservative culture because anybody from Northern California is going to be considered liberal.
