10 SIMPLE STEPS TO BE MORE INTERESTING

26 Mar 2017

Did you ever feel bored with yourself or activities around you? Are there people who think you are not interesting or boring? Why should be interesting? Here are some tips and tricks that you use to express yourself and tell others that you’re fun to be around.

  1. Go exploring!

Explore ideas, places, and opinions. No one has come to all the places you’ve visited. Be refreshing. Get more out of life.

  1. Share what you discover!

All you have is precious. Know what you can do and tell them that you will do it. They will appreciate it. Be generous when you do. Not everybody went exploring with you. Let them live vicariously through your adventures.

  1. Do something! Anything.

Do what you can do. Dance. Talk. Build. Play. Help. Create. It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you’re doing it. More space for things that are interesting. But you can avoid things that are demoralizing and exhausting.

  1. Embrace your innate weirdness!

No one is normal. It’s not your fault for being different. Everyone has quirks and insights unique to themselves. Not everyone will understand and praise you. Just smile and go ahead!

  1. Have a cause!

If you don’t care about anything, no one will care about you. In every little thing, you’ll find the most important part.

  1. Minimize your swagger!

Egos get in the way of ideas. If your arrogance is more obvious than your expertise, you are someone other people avoid. In the end, arrogance will only make things worse.

  1. Give it a shot!

Try it out. If you never try, you’ll never know. Play around with a new idea. Talk with strangers. Leave the things that are useless.

  1. Hop off the bandwagon!

If everyone else is doing it, you’re already late to the party.  Do your own thing, and others will hop onto the spiffy wagon you built yourself. Expose yourself to ridicule, to risk, to wild ideas.

  1. Grow a pair!

You’re braver than you believe. Bravery is needed to have contrary opinions and to take unexpected paths. Be bold enough to defeat your fears.

  1. Ignore the scolds!

Boring is safe, and you will be told to behave yourself. Whatever you’re doing, enjoy it, embrace it, master it as well as you can. The scolds could have, would have, should have. But they didn’t. And they resent you for your adventures. 

Sources: Jessica Hagy. 2013. HOW TO BE INTERESTING: In 10 Simple Steps. United States: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.., New York.