# Compare and Contrast - Discipline and Focus
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• Discipline®(纪律): People who are especially talented in the Discipline theme enjoy routine and structure. Their world is best described by the order they create.
--> Spatial Discipline - "A place for everything, and everything in its place.". Desks and home are organized impeccably and they never waste time hunting for an object.
--> Thought-Process Discipline - tend to have an internal calendar in which they mentally log their appointments and to-dos, and easily and quickly create color-coded spreadsheets to give visual organization to their thinking.
• Focus®(专注): People exceptionally talented in the Focus theme can take a direction, follow through and make the corrections necessary to stay on track. They prioritize, then act.
Discipline and Focus are CliftonStrengths themes in the Executing Domain (purple).
🔆 - - - Similarities - - - 🔆
Both Discipline and Focus are about:
• Ways to get things done
• Efficiency
• Clarity
Both these themes intensify each other.
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• Discipline - prioritizes personal efficiency, eliminating anything that disrupts the process.
• Focus - prioritizes goal achievement efficiency, removing distractions that hinder progress.
• Discipline - has clarity about routines and structure.
• Focus - has clarity about goals and what to concentrate on.
• Discipline - Discipline creates the most effective routine to accomplish tasks for the goal.
• Focus - works tirelessly to achieve a goal.