I spoke to Markel's Jitney group recently. Markel is an insurance company based in Richmond, VA. I spoke to them about how investing has influenced my views of the world, why I started, and how my experience has helped me become a well informed investor. Please enjoy the transcipt of the talk I gave: My excitement has been compounding since I was first talking about this opportunity, and I hope your interest has been as well. My name is Maya Peterson. I am high school sophomore with a passion for business, math, behavioral finance, and science. I published a book last year about the power and importance of investing early. It is called Early Bird: The Power of Investing Young. I have a blog called Compounding Snowballs that is three years old now, and many other activities outside of school that keep me busy. I want to talk about the ideas of experience and knowledge, two words that are related, but often misused. Investing deals with both experience and knowledge. There ar