There are lots of people telling you what to do on this subreddit. It's easy to soak it all up like a sponge and decide to take everything that has gotten above 30 upvotes like the absolute truth. I'm guilty of this myself. Don't make this mistake.

The greeks had this powerful concept called ethos. It means character. You must take into account the character of whoever speaks, when deciding whether or not to listen to him. Is the guy who wrote this post or comment someone I respect - someone that I can learn from? Perhaps you wouldn't want to take advice from a beggar on the street. Well, maybe you shouldn't take advice from someone who frequents the cats subreddit either, then.

Take 30 seconds whenever you read something that makes you change your opinion and go through the author's comment history. Does he have sufficient ethos? Is he someone you would generally take advice from? Reddit allows you to make your own judgement based on multiple sources - content, upvotes and post/comment history. Always utilize the third one. I encourage you to do the same for this very post.

Swallowing the pill is all about separating yourself from the herd. Becoming an independent thinker. You should evaluate the ethos of the author at all times. When choosing which self help book to read next, when reading posts on TRP and when taking advice on askTRP or some other online forum.