- Everyone has the potential to be interesting — and boring.
- Common qualities of extremely boring individuals include poor improv and storytelling skills.
- Boring people enjoy watching TV, work with numbers and also tend to lack original opinions.
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In one recent study, people told researchers they'd have to be paid to spend time with a boring person.
Don't let this be you.
Putting together academic research and crowdsourced responses from a classic Quora thread, Insider has identified 16 classics traits, the hobbies and jobs held by boring people.
Read on for the social behaviors to avoid at all costs and you'll be on your way to life-of-the-party status.
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Mike Nudelman and Drake Baer contributed to earlier versions of this article.
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