Discipline is a theme that I'm not personally
very familiar with. It's kind of
on the bottom part of my profile
but it's obviously...I love all 34 themes or at least I'm in the
in the process of doing that so I'm excited and anxious to
to kind of talk about this. So let me kind of launch into my
theme overture here and I'll give you just a brief
definition and then kind of try to unpack that a little bit.
People who have Discipline as one of their Signature Themes are people who are
often very good at
what I would say managing limited personal resources
by creating a plan and following it. These are people who
bring order to chaos
and it's really about personal efficiency. People who
get things done by
creating structure and order to kind of support what it is that they do and so
it's in the Executing Domain. That's where it falls. It really helps
it's one of the things that helps people accomplish things to
be productive. In terms of some nouns
that kind of...relate to this particular theme
I've already used the word. They're organizers.
They kind of create...bring some order to their world.
They're often planners. They have a plan. Here's what I'm going to do and
when I'm going to do it. That kind of structure helps.
I think this is...these are people who are I think are
probably more self controlled.
They...Control is not a bad word. It's a good word
to people who have this. I also use the word architect.
When you create structure, when you create
plan, you are kind of architects of building something bigger
and to some degree could be building a better
life, so I like that word architect.
And then just structure is another word. Adjectives
Predictability...predictable...
Predictable is not a bad thing.
It's a good thing.
...so knowing ahead of time of what I'm going to do.
Thinking ahead about what I'm going to do is
the planning aspect.
They also have a detail orientation to them.
I mean, sometimes we think about big picture. There are themes that have big
picture...This is more the micro picture.
It's the detail. You...Ryan,
before the show, noticed
that I have a little bit of Greek yogurt on my lip.
I was kind of having my lunch here and he's got...
He notices details
and that can be a very valuable thing. It was for me, I didn't want to have
Greek Yogert on my face. It's also people who can be kind of meticulous.
You know, and that may be [laughs]
part of why he didn't want Greek yogurt
on my face as well.
structured, neat, orderly, timely
perfection...perfectionistic. I mean,
I could say that about several themes but this is one of the themes that
contributes to people
doing thing in a very...in a very perfectionistic way
in a positive sense of that. Rehearsed,
planned, exact. Kind of exacting. So those are all
words that kind of go into this.
When I think about this in it's raw form,
When I think about what raw Discipline might look like kind of
unseasoned...uninformed in its rawest form
it might sound a little bit like this:
"If my world is out of order, I'm a mess."
When people with Discipline
and that might be one of the things that
they...they're uncomfortable
when there is chaos around them. That's...
and obviously when it's more mature it brings order to chaos but I think it
begins, to some degree, with just a discomfort with disorder.
I think when it matures, it's...Here's how I
would describe mature: "When someone's
world is a mess,
I can help restore the order."
These are people who can bring order to chaos
and not only their own, but I think to some degree
others. I think there are other themes that can kind of help to
both intensify and modify
or moderate this particular theme.
For example, someone with Discipline might also have
Developer. So this theme might help you be
more patient with mistakes that come
from inexperience. To some degree, when people with Discipline
notice something that's out of order, they might be more patient
with people who are trying to find that order. I think Arranger is another theme
that could help to kind of complement
Discipline. Could help others appreciate your plan by incorporating greater
flexibility
when change is required. I think that's the thing that
...the vulnerability I think of Discipline is that
it has...it really relies on a plan and
it may not be willing to change the plan.
It may, you know,hang onto the plan when things change
around them. So change
can sometimes be an issue when people have
high Discipline. Adaptability
could be a great partner when the unpredictable mounts a surprise attack on
the predictable. So Discipline and Adaptability
are themes that I often see
kind of widely separated on someone's profile. Doesn't mean it's impossible
but if you like the predictable
that's Discipline. Adaptability is more people who like
the spontaneous, the unpredictable. I like a surprise.
So that would be kind of the difference there.
In terms of the theme that is most likely paired
with Discipline, it's Responsibility. I really think those two
themes have a lot in common.
One is Discipline is more of an internal
kind of order, whereas Responsibility is more external,
but those two kind of go together quite a bit.
If you've got one you might have the
other one.
It's at like 30, .36
kind of the ratio of the way those things fit together.
The theme that is least likely paired with Discipline is Ideation.
And I'm not exactly sure...I think part of that is
Ideation usually means change. [laughs]
We're gonna do something different. It's something new.
It's a change. So there's some logic why if you have one of these you
probably won't have the other one.
...just in terms of how you see the world and
how you view the world, but,
again,there's probably the rare person out there that is a
a very creative planner or an organized inventor. [laughs]
maybe...might be a bit.
Discipline used to be the least frequent of all
34 themes in our database. When were at about a million or two million or
three million
Discipline was on the bottom of the list. It was the least frequent.
As the database has grown, it has moved up but not far.
It is still one of the least frequent themes.