For example, my friends and family all have a running joke in which they’ll often remind me to breathe whenever I become entranced in one of my unabating ramblings. The truth is my mind just moves at 768.2 miles per-just a tad faster than the speed at which my words can reach my audience aka the speed of sound. My mind just cannot justify a reason to remain bound within the shackles of silence, and by speaking I am able to release a torrent of ideas, jokes, and quirky facts. All of this allowed me to be a superstar at the timed math drills in 2nd grade, and retain that status to this very day as my mind races to answer a scholar’s bowl