An introspective deep dive into the void. Exploring the human experience through the eyes of a participant, learning to play the game. ”Words With Myself” Podcast by Luke Rixson.
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An introspective deep dive into the void. Exploring the human experience through the eyes of a participant, learning to play the game. ”Words With Myself” Podcast by Luke Rixson.
Step into a conversation that quietly pulls the rug out from under everything you think you know about strength. In this episode of Words With Myself, the host sits with a simple but radical idea: strength is not measured in muscle or menace, but in the steady courage of the gentle. Through vivid contrasts and intimate reflections, the episode opens with the image of the loud, imposing figure—someone who looks strong until you see the fear that fuels that posture.
What follows is a story of reversals: the bully who bristles to hide insecurity, the person who seeks applause for toughness, and the surprising hero—the one who answers aggression with care. You’ll meet the quiet scenes where real strength reveals itself: a hand extended to someone in pain, a calm voice offered to a frightened stranger, a refusal to escalate when everything in you wants to retaliate. These moments are painted not as softness that invites harm, but as deliberate acts of bravery that cost something real.
As the narrative unfolds, the episode explores the paradox that being kind often feels like weakness—yet it demands more courage than posturing ever will. It distinguishes between being “nice” to avoid discomfort and being “good” at great personal cost: the sacrifice, the risk, the lonely choices that build an inner backbone. Boundaries are honored; softness is chosen, not surrendered.
Listeners are invited into a moral reckoning: to choose the difficult path of integrity over the easy comforts of approval, to accept that strength is a practiced discipline forged by hardship, not a state granted by appearance. The host offers tough love—reminding us that real strength requires risk, that comfort breeds complacency, and that an easy life rarely produces courage.
The episode closes like a quiet dare: will you take the road that asks more of you? It leaves you with the image of strength as a commitment—an ongoing choice to be good, honest, and courageous when it matters most. Tune in and let this gentle but insistent narrative reshape how you see power, kindness, and what it truly means to be strong.
Words With Myself
An introspective deep dive into the void. Exploring the human experience through the eyes of a participant, learning to play the game. ”Words With Myself” Podcast by Luke Rixson.
