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 A friend posted a question on LinkedIn: "What matters more, motivation or discipline?" For her, low motivation meant lack of discipline. So she was wondering which one influences the other? Let's try to understand the semantics first. The verb for discipline is "to discipline" and means to bring in line with a set of rules, to straighten out, to make consistent, usually referred to behaviour. The verb for motivation is "to motivate" and means to inspire, to push, to make excited, usually referred to doing things. I don't think these verbs are mutually exclusive. You need motivation to stay disciplined. and you need discipline to stay motivated. If discipline is your tea, motivation is your sugar. If discipline is your mayai, motivation is your chips. If discipline is the money, motivation is your life. 

Truth is increasingly shaped by media actors, therefore the ethical responsibility over Truth cannot only be left to media actors. It is inevitable, as long as everyone else seeks integrity in Truth, that everyone else needs to do more to think about, investigate, and share or not share media according to what information is most important to be consumed at that place and time.  "Most important" is relative and everyone will have a different compass for this, yes, but that is unavoidable. It may be regional, or chronological, or set in any other anchor, but we cannot afford to have more than one version of Truth in any one of these anchored times/places. 

Communications appears to be diverting from action.  Many ads promise the world, yet the companies cannot deliver. What, then, is the point of advertising?  If companies walked the talk they advertised, the world might actually have been better. The problem lies in what we envision for ourselves versus what we actually do about it.