[npmaile]

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.

[hhas01]

“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.

[airjack]

Exactly. The virtue is being correct, not being misunderstood.

[bagacrap]

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.