Answer #2- Be Interested

I almost said 'be interesting' but I think that if you are interested first then you become interesting. Otherwise you're just a pompous windbag who likes the sound of your own voice. (If you got an image of someone in your head just now it's not my fault.)

As Dorothy Parker once said: "Curiosity is the cure for boredom. There is no cure for curiosity." (and if you don't know who Dorothy Parker is, well then, the curious mind wants to know, and how can you not bother to know anything these days with Google and other search engines at your fingertips)
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dorothy_Parker

I know I harped on this topic a few months/blogs ago, but gosh and gee whiz, learning should be fun. And if that got snuffed out along the way maybe we're teaching children wrong. Or should that be wrongly? (Mind whirring, flashback to 5th grade English, adverb describing how, modifying action verb 'teaching'....uh yeah, I'll stick by that.)

Anyway, rather than be an 'insufferable know-it-all" (please say that in Alan Rickman's voice) I present a quickie course in being interested, courtesy of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. Or technically, from the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I give you Sherlock Holmes' Five Principles of Deduction. To make your experience more pleasant I have accompanied them by my most recent project-in-process, Stones From the River:

1) Nothing is Insignificant.

2) Notice What You See

3) Beware the Deceptiveness of the Ordinary

4) The bizarre is not necessarily mysterious

Ha! just seeing if you were paying attention. Yes, it's a real fish head, and yes my daughter brought it home from United one day to do a painting for an art class.

5) Presume Nothing

Every day is the first day of school. Lots of stuff to still learn. 
What is String Theory? Where did the word 'flummoxed' come from? Why do male Hassidic Jews wear ringlets? Did dinosaurs really have feathers? Why do leaves change colours in Autumn? Can thinking about time travel too much cause a migraine? When I click on a website is it magic fairy dust that makes it appear?  (aha, a clue.....the game is afoot)
http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/