There are people who solve a problem the same way that you do, just much much faster. Apparently, Murray Gell-Mann was one such person. I had a professor like

There are people who solve a problem the same way that you do, just much much faster. Apparently, Murray Gell-Mann was one such person. I had a professor like that. He was constantly blurting out your next thought just as you were on the verge of forming the words. Gell-Mann did this so often, that his grad students once played a trick on him by meeting up and thinking out a new series of conclusions ahead of time, just so they could blurt out the next conclusion just as Gell-Mann was about to speak it.