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Re:The Strength of Being Misunderstood by npmaile on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:25PM (#25270852)
I feel like the strength of being misunderstood is more like the strength of being correct. Just because other people don't understand you doesn't mean you are correct.

If you aren't correct, this post will do nothing for you but make you bull-headed and closed off to criticism.

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Re:The Strength of Being Misunderstood by hhas01 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:09PM (#25271768)
“Just because other people don't understand you doesn't mean you are correct.”

True. Also true that it doesn’t mean you aren’t. Though it does at minimum strongly suggest that your attempts to explain yourself to others have thus far sucked.

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Re:The Strength of Being Misunderstood by airjack on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:39AM (#25275487)
Exactly. The virtue is being correct, not being misunderstood.
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Re:The Strength of Being Misunderstood by bagacrap on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:50PM (#25273057)
agreed. FTA: "A common way this happens is by eventually being right about an important but deeply non-consensus bet."

It seems pretty obvious that it's profitable (to one's wallet as well as ego) to be right when everyone else is wrong.

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