I had a friend who was a pretender for a while. I asked them how they could stand listening to that stuff now that they didn't believe it, and this is how they managed:

1. They printed out stuff they needed for work/stuff that they wanted to read, and read that during meeting.
2. They attended a foreign language group so they couldn't understand what was being said most of the time!
3. They went out of town a lot so they could have a good reason to miss.