{"id":101776,"date":"2009-12-17T07:03:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T12:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justaguything.com\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2009-12-17T07:03:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T12:03:26","slug":"how-to-tell-if-you%e2%80%99re-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101776","title":{"rendered":"How To Tell If You\u2019re Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justaguything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/3EA9AC34-551C-4176-A4C0-2D4DD030ED09.jpg\" alt=\"3EA9AC34-551C-4176-A4C0-2D4DD030ED09.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how many people have no idea how utterly boring they are.  Don&#8217;t be one of these people.  If you&#8217;re boring, at least realize it and try to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>But how, you ask?  The folks at <span id=\"more-5542\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-happiness-project\/200912\/eight-tips-know-if-youre-being-boring\">Psychology Today<\/a> have a helpful checklist to know if you are being boring in a social situation.  You can go and read the full article, but here are a few tips to help you out:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Oh really?&#8221; <\/strong> The dreaded &#8220;oh really&#8221;!  If the person you are taking to keeps saying this over and over, it means you are boring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not being interrupted. <\/strong> If you are droning on and on and no one else is attempting to interrupt, it means you are boring.  Interruption actually signals interest in the conversation, so no interruptions means someone is being bored out of their mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look out for body position.<\/strong>  If someone is interested in what you are saying, they will usually turn to face you.  Conversely, if the person you are talking to is partially turned away, chances are they are not engaged in what you are saying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are <em>you<\/em> bored?<\/strong>  Chances are if you&#8217;re bored with someone&#8217;s conversation, they are bored with yours as well.  Time to find someone else to talk to.<\/p>\n<p><small>photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scragz\/\">scragz<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justaguything.com\/?ak_action=api_record_view&#038;id=5542&#038;type=feed\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.justaguything.com\/find-out-if-a-woman-likes-you-look-at-her-feet\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Find Out if a Woman Likes You: Look at Her Feet'>Find Out if a Woman Likes You: Look at Her Feet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.justaguything.com\/7-tips-to-become-the-ultimate-cyber-flirt\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 7 Tips to Become the Ultimate Cyber Flirt'>7 Tips to Become the Ultimate Cyber Flirt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.justaguything.com\/three-online-dating-red-flags\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Three Online Dating Red Flags'>Three Online Dating Red Flags<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?a=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?i=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?a=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?i=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?a=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?i=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?a=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?i=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?a=qNDLIYKbJiA:NXE9cjElzF8:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/justaguything?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/justaguything\/~4\/qNDLIYKbJiA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how many people have no idea how utterly boring they are. Don&#8217;t be one of these people. If you&#8217;re boring, at least realize it and try to do something about it. But how, you ask? The folks at Psychology Today have a helpful checklist to know if you are being boring in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}