Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )

With the start of the Fall season ( September should be considered the moral end of Summer, if not the actual end of the Summer season), it was our intent to take stock of the outreach efforts here at the Wakefield Doctrine blog. As with most endeavors, our efforts have resulted in a mix of unexpected successes leavened with the occasional disappointments. The best example of the positive side of this equation is the welcome addition of 3 new Friends of the Doctrine, on the other end, is the difficult challenge of sucessfully creating a comprehensive explanation of the tenets of the Doctrine, one sufficient to ignite the imagination of the causal Reader. I suspect that this  is a fair description of the state of most self-improvement/personality theory oriented blogs. Many of the ‘more-successful’ blogs that we read seem to combine a core of insight wrapped in a coating of fresh and inviting discourse maintained by well-educated and eloquent people. I set out to survey the recent Posts of our blog in the hope of finding some evidence of our own success in this area…instead, I found the following video, (lol)!  Taped just last weekend on the eve of the first  Hurricane in our area in many a year… lofty discourse? sublime persuasion?…er  maybe a little later.

There actually was a forklift by the side of the road last Saturday Night! It was the night before the hurricane and spirits were running high during the week’s  Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive (our Live Phone-In Show).  You know how sometimes people will say things like, “Did I hear really hear someone laughing on your Video Friday episode?”  and they’re all like, “I can’t believe how much you sounded like you were having fun!” 
If the truth be known, I get that a lot and am aware of how, in the effort to present the Wakefield Doctrine in a written format, we sometimes come across all serious and lecturey and well…clarklike.  The truth of the matter is, the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory and the blog) are fun and if we don’t always get that across, then you need to watch the videos more. Those (videos) are mostly not scripted and therefore closer to the experience of hanging out with the Progenitors and DownSprings.

Speaking of DownSprings, by now everyone knows Claire and Molly (and eventually) Nell.  These three not only represent a nearly doubling of the number of people participating to one degree or another, but more importantly, our newest FOTDs are providing us with  fresh perspective(s) on how the Wakefield Doctrine should be explained and presented.  Nell and Claire (and especially Molly)  asking the most challenging (and annoying) questions. This is as it must be if the Doctrine is to grow. It is a fun time and, while not always pleasant, we are forced to look at the ‘tried and true’  ways we have utilized to reach out to new Readers.  It’s amazing how the path to improvement becomes clear when there is a fresh perspective.
But if there is anything that the Wakefield Doctrine does better than any other ‘system or theory of self-development’  is that it makes the process of change and self-improvement pay off! 

If  you are a new Reader, let us just say this:

 the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique and useful and fun way to understand the behavior of the people in your life. Some might call it a theory of personality, others might refer to it as an effective guide to self-development, still others might just find it fun to read about the adventures of a small group of people from all over the globe and what they do with their (rather facile) minds.

• we all begin life with the capacity to experience the world(‘reality’) in three characteristic ways
• at an early age, we all settle on one (of these three) ways to live our lives which we call being a clark or being a scott or living as a roger
• even though we are predominately one type, all of us retain the capability of seeing the world as the other two (this explains why most people, when trying to decide which of the three types they are will invariably proclaim, “Most of the time I am a roger but sometimes I am clearly a scott…I must be some special 4th type”*
• the Wakefield Doctrine and the worldviews that it describes transcends cultures and politics and age and even gender…a clark is a clark is a clark (god help you)
• the Wakefield Doctrine, when properly applied will allow you to know more about another person’s behavior and underlying rationale than the person knows about themselves
• as a guide and a tool to effect change on one’s personality, the Wakefield Doctrine is nonpariel

So as we begin the next phase of  this thing of ours,  we invite you to join us!

* no you’re not….roger