I think this is not pretending. But you just tell yourself "being the cool". It is the same thing like actors project characters into themselves by "being the c

I think this is not pretending. But you just tell yourself "being the cool". It is the same thing like actors project characters into themselves by "being the characters". And the better the actor is, the difficult we can see pretension. Or you can see this from existentialism like Martin Heidegger's idea about a carpenter himself can't distinguish himself from his tools. He just can perform carpentry effortlessly.