>> There's certainly a lot of great aspects to being in a position where you need to keep
up with what's going on in the world.
I think, you know, when you're in college or when you're learning
about business there's sometimes the thought that maybe just kind of what you read
in the papers is kind of ancillary to kind of the practical career
that you're going to be pursuing.
And in my career, again I've only been doing it for a couple of years now,
I found that it couldn't be further from the truth.
In fact a lot of the things that I learned back during my undergraduate days and now you read
about whether it's in the Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg you keep up with the times
and you realize how much what's going on in the world, again the interconnectedness,
the sluggish economy, the trends overall,
that you read about every day they really do impact the business environment
as an underwriter and I'm sure many other periods like this as well.
I've come to appreciate that you really have to kind of know what's going on with the world.
You have to keep up with the trends.
You have to not only keep up with them, but probably be a step ahead in order to, you know,
to know where your business is going and take the appropriate action.
The biggest challenge and I think a lot of people here would agree with me on this is
that you don't always have perfect information.
And to try to make the best decision that you can at the time based
on the information you possess is challenging and sometimes you would
like to have more information you would like to know more what's going on in the world.
And in theory that sounds great, in practice you don't always know what you don't know.
And you don't always have all the data that you need.
And your decision sometimes has to be an educated guess or it has to be a byproduct
of your past experiences with similar situations.
Again I don't have a ton of experience being a relatively recent college grad yet,
but something I hope to gain overtime is to know that when faced with challenges and instances
where you don't have as much information to make a decision
as possible you can try to pursue the best route.