Brush your teeth. Eat Your Vegetables. Stay in school. While most advice is cute, concise, and repeated incessantly in every classroom, after-school special, and hustle podcast, some life tips are a bit more nuanced — and bizarre — than meets the eye, just ask the fine folks of r/AskReddit.

"If you have to eat a **** sandwich, do it as fast as possible," advised u/0xxman while u/Forever-Retired got candid about the pressures of life. 

"'You can't be perfect all the time," they wrote. "'You can't satisfy Everyone all the time. You are Supposed to make mistakes.'"

From driving as though you’re surrounded by babies to understanding that perfect is truly the enemy of good, here are 20 pieces of advice that may be strange but true.