1. She told me her top students walk home slowly, no parents, no cars, no background noise. It’s their reset period. The silence works like a mental cleaning cycle, storing what they just learned. When the brain gets 20 minutes of low-stimulus motion, it sorts memory from noise. Parents who skip this step unknowingly block integration. 2. By age nine, the gap turns visible. Children who walk alone regulate themselves, while those driven have thoughts constantly influenced. Every question from th