The risk of being misunderstood is the price of having a real opinion.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Any position specific enough to be useful is specific enough to be read wrong. People hear through their own situations, so some of them will take what you said as something you never said. That is not evidence you phrased it badly; it is the cost of saying anything with edges on it. The alternative is talking so vaguely that nobody can disagree and nobody can be helped.

When you get misread, restate it once, plainly, and then let it go. Chasing down every misunderstanding is how people end up with no opinions worth misreading.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which opinion would you hold even if people misread you?

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