# Compare and Contrast - Discipline and Focus 🔆 - - - Gallup's definition: - - - 🔆 • 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. 🔆 - - - Differences - - - 🔆 • 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.