‘Avoid Boring People’

He is aware there is a second way to parse his title, with “boring” serving as a verb instead of an adjective: “Not boring others, of course, requires that you take pains not to become boring, as often happens when you begin to bore yourself.”

George Johnson’s eighth book, “The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments,” will be published next spring.--So You Want to Be a Nobelist

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First Chapter: ‘Avoid Boring People’ (November 25, 2007)

Times Topics: James D. Watson



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