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Hey! where are the videos?! today’s Friday….where are the videos? the Wakefield Doctrine (sort of a good Friday!)

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

I spoke to the progenitor roger about Thursday’s Post and he actually, (well, maybe accidentally) complimented us on the writing!
Well…what I actually said was, “hey, that Post, did it sound at all rogerian to you” and he said, “no, not in the slightest”.
We talked a bit about the object of the Post, i.e. my effort to write from the perspective of my rogerian aspect. And in all fairness, I did state that even though we all have the capacity to see the world as ‘the other two would’*, the fact of the matter is that he (roger) has spent a lifetime practicing being a roger, while even though I have access to the worldview of a roger,  I simply haven’t had the chance to practice. (being a roger).  At this point the compliment appeared, where roger said,  “well, I have to admit that when I first read the Post I thought it was a guest Writer or something”.

We will choose to view this as an indication that we are using the Wakefield Doctrine as an effective tool for personal self-development.

Any….way, we were talking about the pre-pre-pre-production plans for the movie  ‘the Wakefield Doctrinethe early years‘ and roger said, in effect, that he was getting tired of seeing James Spader  held up as an example of a roger.
To which, I replied, ‘well, we can go get William Hurt (back when he had hair) or Alex Baldwin (when he wasn’t fat) or even….” I was interrupted by roger trying to say,  “hey that’s all not valid, those are actors”

Back in the early days of this blog,  the question of actors and actresses and the personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine was addressed. It was clear to us that the best way to illustrate what we meant by a scottian personality or a rogerian personality,  was to find examples of the personality types in public figures.  In other words, a person that everyone will either know already or can look up easily.
And so we did. Not only did we identify famous people that were clearly clarks, scotts and rogers, we found examples of people acting like clarks and scotts and rogers in movie roles. And we used these clips to show people acting so much like the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, that  you would think the scriptwriter read our blog!
The examples we have found to post are so good that we will put them below here (you have to go into the Post and play the vids) …

a scott and a clark   (Robert DeNiro and David Caruso)

a scott and a roger  (Jack Nicholson and James Spader)

Cool, eh?

But the question still should be answered, the question that the Progenitor roger almost got to ask…”that’s not the person, that’s the role!”  To which we reply, maybe one role one time, but follow an actor’s career and the roles they play and you will see a clark or a scott or a roger playing a role that would appear to be a clark or a scott or a roger. Look at the actors in interviews… the personality type is there.  Case-in-point, Robert DeNiro in two of the above film clips… do you think the Director said, “Alright, Bob gimme something with self-effacement and retiring, yet still be able to maintain a long-term friendship  with a raging lunatic”.  No, I think it is safe to say that if you met Mr. DeNiro in a restaurant you would think, ‘jeez, what a clark!’

 

Following is a music video that took me hours to identify, because it was stuck in my head this morning and all I ‘had’ was that it was Stevie Wonder  and there was a line about ‘bet your something something ‘  ( ended up  listening to every cut on  Talking Book and Songs of Life)

 

 

* for any new Readers, this statement about ‘the other two’? It refers to a basic tenet of the Wakefield Doctrine, that is, we are all born with the capacity, the potential, the capability of experiencing the world around us in one of three characteristic ways: the  world of the clark, the worldview of the scott and the reality of the roger. At an early age, we all settle for one of these three and that becomes our ‘predominant’ worldview… ‘personality type’.  But we always have the other two as potentials.
Look at it this way, my predominant worldview is that of a clark, so I say ‘I am a clark‘ (but) I can also experience the world as a scott or a roger. We sometimes refer to these other two as ‘aspects’… so you might say, for example,  hey! you’re a clark with a secondary scottian aspect and a tertiary rogerian aspect.  And the person next to you might say, “What the hell are you talking about?”(and that, is your opening…good luck!)

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Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one