Well first you'd have to make up your mind.

Then you have to realize that there honestly is no one way to go at this and you most likely can take a really strange path and still somehow get to the end just because it's so subjective. Maybe you should try to see which parts you usually have liked about guides like maybe you actually did like FAQman's rigid method. Just take the stupid hour count limitations away and stick to a schedule with 1 hour of this a day and 1 hour of that and see where it takes you, maybe. I just suggest you try to loosen it up a bit and take what you can out of our ramblings of trust and ~~feels~~. You're pretty much on your own, but luckily you are the one who knows yourself and your head the best, not us. Even if it feels like you don't know it at all, you still know it better than us. Do what feels right and shit.

Everyone writes about their own experiences and what worked for them. That's why there's guides and that's why their guides might work for you as well, because sometimes there's some nuggets of Good hidden in there that you think make sense.

Do we know if everyone who claims to have a tupper has a tupper? Nope. You know that some people just call roleplaying characters "tulpas" because I don't even know. Not everyone knows what the term is because people keep redefining them to feel more special or something, but this far we're still claiming that it should be something that at least acts like it's independent and sapient. Could those who actually get it be mentally ill in some way which is the only thing that makes it happen? Maybe. Are all the actual tuppers people have actually the same kind? It's possible that they're not. It's not like we even know for certain what exactly causes a tupper to be formed in the first place and we don't really have ways of testing them.

And you will only ever know your own experiences and feel your own tuppers, never ours. You can only know if they feel sapient yourself. And some people might be wrong. That's kinda what making tuppers is about and what it's going to teach you, you are going to have to walk this thin line and try to find the truth of something so confusing and something you can't even fully understand. I think that it's something that will probably make you start thinking what makes you you and such. Gets deep brah.

All I got was that it seemed plausible because the mind can do many crazy things. Placebo has been scientifically proven and while we can't scientifically prove multiple personality disorders and such, people do claim that they happen. Those medical conditions alone seem to imply to me that something like this might be possible in the first place. Is what I got a tupper or a mental disorder? I don't know, maybe everyone else is faking it and I got a "tulpa" because I'm actually the cray. But I would be pretty certain that I can claim I got a tupper based on the definition we got.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong. We all could be wrong. Or insane. Who knows.