INTOLERANCE.

The fact of refusing to accept ideas, beliefs, or behaviour that are different from your own: lack of tolerance; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect opinions or beliefs contrary to one's own.     Unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect persons of a different social group, especially members of a minority group.

 Incapacity or indisposition to bear or endure:

The biggest problem in the world is intolerance of difference. It appears to be a causal factor in war, racism, sexism, child abuse, domestic violence, marital disputes, dysfunctional families, broken marriages, religious arguments, political debates, sexuality choices, and the beat goes on.

The secondary characteristics describe individuals who are intolerant to ambiguity as:

1.   authoritarian

2.   dogmatic

3.   rigid

4.   closed minded

5.   ethnically prejudiced

6.   uncreative

7.   anxious

8.   extra-punitive

9.     aggressive

What causes intolerance?

Why do some people lose their temper very easily?
Why are some people intolerant to others?
Why can the same person become impatient and intolerant to others during a certain period of his life?

In fact intolerant people are already near their boiling threshold all the time even when they are calm and that's why a tiny comment can make them boil!

Each person has a certain tolerance gauge that must be filled before he reaches his bursting point. Now the reason many people are intolerant is that their gauges are already more than half full!

The more unsolved problems the person has the less free brain resources he will have and the more intolerant he will become.

If you have three major unsolved problems in your life then your gauge will be almost full even if you were not thinking about them. Even while you are not thinking about your problems your subconscious mind will be doing its best to find solutions for them.

If you are not happy with your job, you are not satisfied with your love life and in the same time have a chronic health problem then you will become much less tolerant than if you didn't have these problems.

How to become more tolerant?

There is only one effective way to do this.
Find out what has filled your tolerance gauge then empty the gauge by taking actions.

Solve the problems that you have been accumulating behind your back. Only then you will become more tolerant and you won't lose your temper easily.