Is Playing Winning Tournament Poker Boring??

I play a lot of MTTs (at least one a day), and I find that most of the times that I reach the final table or late stages of the tourney, I'm actually getting kind of bored.

Most of the times I make it to late stages/final table, I've probably folded 80% to 90% of my hands up to that point: definitely at least up until the bubble. I only try to play premium hands (pocket pairs, suited connectors) and muck all other garbage. I'm not going to say that my chip stack moves in a linear upward trend line (there are a few times when I hold premium cards raise 3xBB but flop jack and forced to take a small loss), but most of the times I get involved in a hand I tend to come out ahead. Seems to me that this strategy is very effective but it's also pretty boring. Nobody wants to keep folding, but is that the best way to make it to final stages?

On the flip side, every time I look at my chip stack and compare it to my opponents' and I see the blinds increase exponentially, I get antsy and that's where I start making mistakes.

Does anyone else experience this? If so, how do you deal with it?

I note your comment about the hands you play and it might be slightly low. Most of the recognised advice on this is that you should be playing 12% to 15% of your hands. However you have to take that over a long period and not just over 1 tourney. I have seen tourneys where my stats show 20% of hands played an others that show less than 10%. Poker stats have to be looked at over thousands if not hundreds of thousands of hands and not just over one tourney which might have a couple of hundred hands.

oh of course it is somewhat boring... but the payouts are always nicer then going all in on the first hand

I think it's Chris Ferguson, whose FTilt commercial says, "Poker is a game of patience and carefully timed agression. It's those bursts of agression that spell the boredom.

I find I'm playing the best poker I can play at 20% of hands(free looks in blinds help). Thats me and my style. Find whats best for you. If you're bored, do something about it, as boredom can lead to bad decisions in the game.