Ha Ha - I love this conclusion, and this foray into the study of boringness. Would never have known so much investigation went into it! Thank you for writing and sharing.
1. We reacted almost identically over here when Donald Trump was elected president. "Yay, four years of entertainment!" Speaking of interior design, by that time Anders argued that we should buy golden wallpaper for a small room we were finishing in order to celebrate the Trumpian taste. I put in my veto: We can't afford to transform our house into a joke. A bit more boring is better.
2. If I get your post right, the key to not being boring is having diverse interests and adapt to the person one is talking to. Or am I over-interpreting things as usual? Like, the least boring person would talk houses and furniture with your mother-in-law, stamps with a stamp collector and math with a mathematician?
Having rooms with different character actually has upsides. When we moved into our house, one of the rooms was painted an ugly pale golden green. It has the TV in it, and it's sort of a living room, or family room, or room with kitty litter, or something - but everyone calls it the green room, and it's virtually the only room in the entire house that can be spoken of unambiguously because of that.
The many keys to not being boring, according to me and my sort-of extensive research:
1. Having diverse interests and adapting to the person you are talking to, so that you talk houses and furniture with your mother-in-law, stamps with a stamp collector, and math with a mathematician,
2. Being part of a conversational give-and-take, listening and responding actively to conversational partners and being willing to disclose stories about yourself,
3. Having interesting hobbies (psychokinesis or ninjutsu, not birdwatching or sleeping),
4. Having an interesting job (acting or performing, not data entry),
5. Being extraverted and lively - but if you aren't, don't try,
6. Being smart, unless you're on TV, in which case being an addle-brained Anna Nicole Smith can also work, and
7. Being funny - but if you aren't, don't try.
Failure to resist being a colossal bore means people will avoid you, will think of you as cold and inept, and will add your blog to their list of disrecommended publications, which they will label with a grumpy cat face.
Ha Ha - I love this conclusion, and this foray into the study of boringness. Would never have known so much investigation went into it! Thank you for writing and sharing.
I mean... I am a boring person who reads scientific studies, like, all day
1. We reacted almost identically over here when Donald Trump was elected president. "Yay, four years of entertainment!" Speaking of interior design, by that time Anders argued that we should buy golden wallpaper for a small room we were finishing in order to celebrate the Trumpian taste. I put in my veto: We can't afford to transform our house into a joke. A bit more boring is better.
2. If I get your post right, the key to not being boring is having diverse interests and adapt to the person one is talking to. Or am I over-interpreting things as usual? Like, the least boring person would talk houses and furniture with your mother-in-law, stamps with a stamp collector and math with a mathematician?
Having rooms with different character actually has upsides. When we moved into our house, one of the rooms was painted an ugly pale golden green. It has the TV in it, and it's sort of a living room, or family room, or room with kitty litter, or something - but everyone calls it the green room, and it's virtually the only room in the entire house that can be spoken of unambiguously because of that.
The many keys to not being boring, according to me and my sort-of extensive research:
1. Having diverse interests and adapting to the person you are talking to, so that you talk houses and furniture with your mother-in-law, stamps with a stamp collector, and math with a mathematician,
2. Being part of a conversational give-and-take, listening and responding actively to conversational partners and being willing to disclose stories about yourself,
3. Having interesting hobbies (psychokinesis or ninjutsu, not birdwatching or sleeping),
4. Having an interesting job (acting or performing, not data entry),
5. Being extraverted and lively - but if you aren't, don't try,
6. Being smart, unless you're on TV, in which case being an addle-brained Anna Nicole Smith can also work, and
7. Being funny - but if you aren't, don't try.
Failure to resist being a colossal bore means people will avoid you, will think of you as cold and inept, and will add your blog to their list of disrecommended publications, which they will label with a grumpy cat face.
Kind of: Be interested - be interesting.