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

The Wakefield Doctrine is not only a way to understand the people in our lives, it is also a way to understand ourselves. It follows (around here) that if you are capable¹ of genuine  self-assessment, you are capable of self-improvement.

For the last couple of years we have spent a million man-hours writing Posts meant to illustrate the Principles of the Wakefield Doctrine. This has been necessary  because what makes the Wakefield Doctrine so effective  is that it is premised on the idea that there are such things as personal realities (which are the world of a clark, the worldview of a scott and the life of a roger) and that it is only when we understand the world that the other person is living in (and reacting to), can we truly understand their behavior. That plus we have a fun way of describing the ‘three personality types’. All of this allows you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. But that is not the topic of today’s Post.
No, it is not.

The Topic of today’s Post is: “OK, Mr. and/or Mrs(or if you prefer Ms.) Wakefield Doctrine. Show us! We are from a large, midwestern State the name of which is often mis-pronounced, however we are reputed to required empirical fact, not a lot of hearsay and such!”
In the coming days we will describe a real life² situation where a person would benefit by ‘borrowing’ traits and characteristics of the other two personality types. The first step will be to describe ‘the problem’, then we will propose a ‘solution’ (utilizing the Wakefield Doctrine, of course!) and finally will follow our subject through the actual process of applying the Wakefield Doctrine to the real world!

Sound like fun?  ( …what are you a frickin scott??! fun??) But we will do this thing over the course of the next 3 weeks.

Given how people seem to love sensational headlines dealing with everything from car crashes to natural disasters (Storm Of The Century!, 3 Kittens Rushed to The Hospital, details at 11!!!) , let’s have a Contest!!!  The Name the Upcoming Series Contest!

The rules are simple: send us a Title for the upcoming series on applying the Wakefield Doctrine to a problem in the real world with a real person and if your Title is judged the Best, we will send you a Wakefield Doctrine (modeled-by-Mel) Tee Shirt!!  A decision will be made by the end of this week.

(The rest of the description of our little project? Hey, we have learned some things from this Doctrine thing! To wit, don’t give it away on the first date! Make ’em earn it!  You will hear more about the ‘Un-named Project’ later this Week.)

1) pre-supposes you are a clark or a scott or roger with a strong secondary clarklike aspect; run-of-the-mill rogers and mongrel scotts simply cannot get outside of themselves sufficiently to pull it off

2)  as ‘real’ as real life ever gets for a clark, at any rate