"For me what makes a person boring is living a sedentary life without variety," Warwick says. "Diverse experiences improve one's conversation for those weekends when you do go down the pub.

Some people are just downright, outright boring, and there's no two ways ... but by the end of the conversation, you're nonetheless ready to open a vein just to feel something.

1. Boring people have unbalanced conversations. Instead of finding a rhythm between talking and listening, boring people are on either conversational extreme. Quora user Jack Bennett calls it an ...