My father was chief engineer with a tornado inside him.... lived to be 90
The wife's grandmother was a minister's wife and never did anything.... lived to be 103.

Looks like lifespan is invariant with boring.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps