Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
Yes, we do ‘have the weekend off’ but you know how it is… a self-improvement system as unique and effective and fun as the Wakefield Doctrine, this stuff is not gonna type itself!
Speaking of ‘typing itself‘, most of the reason for today’s Post is the interesting effects on the Wakefield Doctrine being exerted by our newest FOTDs Molly and Claire. Both people who came to us just last year, (and as predicted) they are people with an exceptional level of flexible intelligence‘ so they grasped the basic principles (of our little Doctrine), straight off and have been making trouble ever since! But good trouble! By this we mean that they have questions, good questions, fun questions, aggravating questions, insightful questions and most of all, questions about aspects of the Wakefield Doctrine that we have not paid much attention to, at least up to now. To give you a better sense of what we mean by asking good, productive questions, consider the two topics raised, in the form of a well-intended question ( …”oh clark, you know how you wrote that the Doctrine indicates…welll I was just wondering”) …eeiyyeee!
Molly: ( during last week’s Saturday Night Drive ) …“Is is possible for a person to decide to change from one (predominant) type to another? Let’s say a person was a clark until they were about 12 or 13 and then decided to become a roger?”
Claire: (chatting on ‘the FaceBrick’) “..A quick – really quick – note on my part: this is probably the reason I bring my mini laptop at school when I know I have an hour recess and then write of what I observe (mostly the youngsters) and perhaps this might give us (at the doctrine) a thread to follow when it comes to these youngsters and others all over the world ”
Damn good questions! Fortunately for us DS#1 and Ms AKH and the roger are around to see that these questions are converted from, “What? What do you need to know that for?!” to “that would be a totally interesting aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine to (further) explore and develop, when can you start?”
…so look for Posts over at the girlie and Three Personalities (‘KH’s place) as well as at Claire and Molly’s sites.
In the meantime, the briefest of Overviews on the aforementioned Questions:
- the main line of inquiry for this Question was simply: what were the circumstances of the persons life surrounding the point of ‘switching’? The conversation (during the Drive) seemed to focus on trying to determine if this person was ‘a clark successfully acting like a roger’ or was this (now) ‘a roger who had spent their life up to that point as a clark?’ This question is central to one of the primary benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine, i.e. it’s use as a tool for self-development. Since we all retain the ‘capability’ to experience the world of the ‘other two’ personality types, the current thinking is that one should be able to have access to all of the strengths (and weaknesses!) of the two non-dominant personality types. This is, of course, the premier advantage of the Doctrine over most other systems for self development, i.e. to augment one’s personality as opposed to replacing one characteristic with another
- in the realm of identifying the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, Claire’s concern is quite useful in developing a higher level of skill (at this identification) than is required in day-to-day Doctrine uses. The ‘short list’ of characteristics by which you can infer the personality type of another person still applies: clarks: posture scotts: eyes and rogers: pronouns
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Adendendum to your last point about singular identification of clarks. I think posture is more prevalent in male clarks (Yes, yes I know. clarklike females share in the posture thing.) Now that I think of it, I had a whole bunch of parental nagging about my posture as a youngster. Huh…..ok – posture.
But in the spirit of helping any newcomers, just as a roger may be identified by the abundance of pronouns, so too a clark may be identified by their “advanced” resource of words. If you hear words that you don’t know the meaning of, they are most likely being spoken by a clark. The earliest I can remember being made of fun for using “big words” was the summer before 8th grade. But it doesn’t stop as you get older either. A clark will always still stand apart by their use of words. Even the simple 2 syllable ones.
agreed. It might even require that we consider the dreaded topic of gender (thanks a lot, Molly and Claire lol). But consider why a clark would have bad posture and see how posture my be expressed differently genderifically-speaking of course!
…damn, I just noticed the lead photo for the Post…. speaking of clarks and gender
Hey there Clark & friends ^_^
First of all… great picture of Tilda Swinton as Gabriel from the movie Constantine (loved that movie, it has this dark humour I am so fond of); second of all, great video choices especially the first one that I did not need to watch since… well Joey Tempest is easily recognizable from that period & well “Superstitious” is a pretty damn good song from that time… (Yes! I am a Europe fan :D)
Now, about the “posture” thing-y… I don’t remember having anyone around me correcting my posture or liking/noticing it; but that was not much of a concern where I grew up (as far as I can remember). So, in all seriousness, what kind of posture are we talking about? Because “posture” is kind of a vague / general term. I mean that everybody has a particular posture as they sit or walk or just stand… (even rogers and scotts) so, what is the particularity of a clark’s posture…?
PS: I read the beginning of this post to my husband (“have been making trouble ever since”) to which he laughed and said: “So you are a trouble maker everywhere!” Now that should tell us at least something about female clarks… or? I thought it was funny so I shared ^_^
Gotta go wake up now!
‘ello Claire
(…am the ‘first one up’, over on this side of the planet) so a quick Reply and perhaps others will jump in as the day progresses.
The ‘posture thing’!
As with much of what we are dealing with, in our efforts to build a form of a Wakefield Doctrine that everyone can immediately read…grasp…use…and benefit from, this concept is a bit subjective. I am using the word ‘posture’ in the sense (of), ‘how does (the person) appear to physically relate to the world at large?‘
More broad a term than ‘body language’, even more general than what is implied by, ‘non-verbal communication’, I am suggesting that our perception of the world around us, (the goal of this aspect of the Doctrine is to learn to observe the other person and correctly infer the ‘character’ of their personal reality/worldview) is reflected in, to use an old term, how we carry ourselves.
‘Poor posture’, here refers to a tendency to ‘hunch the shoulders’, maybe slouch a little, perhaps be more relaxed when sitting (watch yourself in class, Claire! after the novelty wears off, when you are beginning to get annoyed by the pointless interruptions of the younger ( OMG, will you kids please let me listen to the Teacher!) students at certain point, check to see if you are not siting a little more comfortably in your seat, perhaps less upright?)
In any event, clarks by virtue of being ‘outsiders’ and very often we are ‘on guard’, tend to exhibit a posture that can be interpreted as ‘defensive’ ‘guarded’ and yet ‘casual'( relative to say, a scott or a roger).
(It may be more on my gender side of the fence, but I think of my characteristic posture as, “trying to be ready for the next spitball coming from the back of the class“)
Another quicky… I do not think the posture has anything to do with gender… the posture of a clark being simultaneously upright/guarded and casual is indeed something I can relate to because it is precisely how I am “carry” myself… that was what I was after when I asked ^_^ Very helpful indeed!
Thanks and have a great Sunday!