On one crowded world a certain man discovered an area where no one lived,
or ever seemed to frequent  --
a place he found fascinating,
so much so that he decided to move there,
but discovered difficulties subsistent therein.
When he described the place to his friends, none could understand its attraction, many in fact appeared unable to even grasp what he was talking about;
but on he went  --  privately striving to relocate to the new area he had discovered, and for years, without questioning his motivation for doing so;
and then one Thursday   --   O! one fateful Thursday  --
he had a thought  --  a thought he had never had in his entire life!
 
 
 
 

Life is whatever you pretend it to be  --
all of life for humans beyond the physical necessities is unquestionably:
whatever you pretend it to be  --  tricky thing is:
the you doing the pretending is whatever life pretends IT to be.
 
 
 
 

One man’s private approach is:
“Always act like you are in control of every situation   --   even if you are not  --
even if you clearly are not  --   even if your thoughts tell you that you are not.”
 
 
 
 
 

From one view, at one stage of the game of trying to
DoTheThing & gain the realization  --
the mind’s pretending is the prime obstacle thereto,
and the cause of all that confuses and deludes a man  --  and yet,
with a minimally proper grasp of what the game is really all about,
conscious, willful pretending can be, for the certain man, a most powerful tool.
 

To employ pretending in a way, eye-opening & head-clearing
requires a man have some realization of how already pretentious is the entire life of humans beyond their meeting basic survival needs;
you cannot be taught this, and it certainly cannot be proven in any normal sense;
you can be told  about it  --  but then it takes an unusually wired man
to be interested enough to pursue or even consider the idea to the inner point of ever realizing privately and  entirely on his own, its validity.
Few men who have ever lived or now do so have a brain programmed with the capacity to realize (or at least, see-&-accept) that
everything that interests them in life,
beyond basic physical needs and their collateral pleasures
are things the human brain creates and then pretends it did not.
No human mind can possess the knowledge to say that this is a misstep of man;
it simply is (to those who can see it) an indisputable, passionless fact,
and once recognized by the proper recognizer --
life beyond the eating level is never again seen the same.
 

After seeing for himself, through his own personal eyes/I's
the totally pretentious basis of all that ordinary men call culture and civilization,  the certain man then is able to take this powerful force of pretending,
and rather than being bamboozled by it  --
use it to further his own private aim of not being bamboozled by
that part of his brain’s consciousness which dictates ordinary men’s lives.
 

If the thoughts and kind of mind and consciousness you were born with
say it is dark  --   pretend it is light;
if they say you are frightened  --
pretend to be Daniel confidently strutting into the lion’s den;
if they say that what they say to you regarding any & all things intangible
is a reliable statement of the facts  --   ignore it and pretend you know better,
and if they say that you do not know what you are doing or talking about……well, just supremely pretend otherwise.
 
 

One man who sometimes talked about DoingTheThing & the realization,
once said something that particularly stands out in the near total lack of interest it stirred among those who heard it
(most in fact seemed able to pretend they heard it not):
he asked them: “If you behaved and spoke exactLY like you believe a man would who was fully awake to the reality of life  --  but were just pretending --
what would be the difference in what you are doing and actually being awake?"
 
 

P.S. There is no way the certain man can do pretending incorrectly.