Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an influential author, mathematical statistician, and former options trader. His best-selling books include Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile.

His most recent publication is Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. In today’s nugget, published on Taleb’s Incerto blog, we feature a chapter from this fascinating book.

In this chapter, Taleb explains how being intolerant can be surprisingly powerful — and dangerous. “An intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy,” he argues. “Actually, it will eventually destroy our world.”

Read on to learn more!