Sometimes Owen says stuff that is so beyond his years that you wonder how he "gets" stuff. I'm talking about his observations about the world around him and how things work. He's so insightful sometimes. It makes me say to myself "I *know* that this kid is going to be just fine in life".
We were talking about sports last night at the dinner table and what makes a good athlete and competitor. He looks at us and says "it's the mental part of the game. If your not mentally in it, you're not going to win regardless of what you do".
Well, yeah Owen. That's exactly right. But how does he as an 8 year old get that when most adults don't comprehend it?
And it's not like he doesn't acknowledge it for himself either. I asked him about the game that he lost his composure in if he was mentally in the game or not. He responded no that he definitely wasn't and said it was very difficult to get himself back into that particular game. He said he was physically exhausted and he wasn't able to mentally compose himself.
He said that he didn't like that but that's the way sports goes because the mental part of the game was the hardest part of the game.
Wow? Really? Pretty insightful for an eight year old. :up:
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Oh, that Owen is really something!
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