Crazy / Non-Obvious Life Advice?

I’ve always found conventional life advice—meditate, exercise, network—to be the nutritional equivalent of plain oatmeal: sensible, nourishing, but so obvious it barely registers. Meanwhile, the internet’s “crazy” advice often veers into manifesting cosmic energy or drinking celery juice to ascend spiritually. Where’s the middle ground? The bizarre-yet-plausible, counterintuitive-yet-empirically-defensible?

I want the advice that sounds deranged at first but, upon closer inspection, feels like a bug fix for the human condition. The kind you’d stumble into after a 3 a.m. wikiwalk on cognitive science or Byzantine military tactics. No platitudes, no mysticism—just weird, actionable ideas with a defensible mechanism.