Ignore Your Differences For A Moment

To get started with developing tolerance, take a certain amount of time and ignore your differences in others. Make up your mind that you will take a break from focusing on the differences between you and others not like you. 

This won't solve your problems but it will give you an opportunity to start with a clean slate.

When differences arise in conversations, change the subject.

Most of all, hold your judgements. 

Ask For An Explanation

If you are talking to someone and they say something that you find hard to accept, ask for an explanation. Try to figure out the other person's perspective without being intolerant or aggressive. 

Tolerance doesn't necessarily mean acceptance, it means that you understand the other person's point of view. It may take many questions from you to get that feeling of understanding, but take every opportunity to get clarification. 

Try To Empathize

Once you understand what's being communicated, then put yourself in their shoes. Seeing things from their perspective is a good step to empathizing with them. 

You may have very different experiences or backgrounds to draw on, so what seems obvious to you might seem strange or foreign to someone else. 

Value The Differences

Learn to appreciate and value the difference in people rather than viewing them as a negative. 

As you value diversity, you become more tolerant and less stressed by ambiguity and uncertainty. The world becomes more than just black and white. 

In some situations, you may not understand someone completely, and that's OK. You don't have to know everything that someone else knows. 

Allow them to be different and be fine with the differences. That's how you develop a more tolerant outlook on life. 

Accept Uncertainty

Uncertainty is something our brains have a hard time accepting. We want answers for everything that's happening around us. 

When people are less tolerant of others, it's usually because they think their way is the only way that makes sense. 

Ask 100 people a question and you will get 100 different answers. That means that you may not see all sides of a situation the same way. 

When you accept that there are other points of view you may not see yet, you allow yourself to be more tolerant of other perspectives. 

Learn About Other People and Their Cultures

Many times I see a lack of tolerance displayed simply because people don't understand the culture and belief systems that are different from theirs. 

Educate yourself more deeply if you feel uncertain or alienated about what other people do or say. 

Once you get exposed to the rationale behind the things people do, your eyes of understanding become open to greater possibilities. 

Analyze Your Intolerant Feelings

To help you understand yourself better, and figure out the root cause for why you feel the way you do about a certain group of people, analyze your intolerant feelings.

Think about who you have been judgmental towards, and then diagnose why you feel that way.

Were you raised to believe that a certain people are inferior to you? Have you had negative experiences with certain people?

Deeply analyze these experiences to determine if you have been mislead in your beliefs. Ignorance and misunderstands can cost you dearly and limit your ability to enjoy more of your environment.  

Foster Your Own Self Esteem

Sometimes people who don't feel happy with themselves are most likely to be intolerant of others. They may have a low or negative self-esteem.

Foster your own self-esteem until you feel more secure and confident in yourself. Then you may find that you are more open-minded and tolerant of other people. 

Think A Different Thought

It is a natural thing to flee from or avoid dealing with difficult thoughts of intolerance. 

One interesting way to work on this is to practice dealing with your most difficult thoughts regularly. Instead of avoiding these thoughts, determine that you will spend more and more time hashing them out. 

Psychologists use this technique to help people learn to handle facing difficult situation head on. Do this on a regular basis and you will find yourself tackling all types of difficult situations. 

To start, try spending at least ten minutes each day thinking differently about your intolerable situation. 

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