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

Hey, you know that there is an on-going effort to both, ‘write the book on the Wakefield Doctrine‘ and to write a book about the Wakefield Doctrine, right? Cool.
…and. You know that the Comments here and the conversations that happen on our Saturday Night Drives make up the bulk of the ‘write the book on…’ effort?  v good.

Well here’s the thing. These on-going ‘conversations’ are not only important because they are:

• fun
• relaxing
• stimulating
• challenging
• aggravating

…but even more importantly because we have reached the point where we need to expand our understanding of how the Wakefield Doctrine works.  A better way of saying it is, we all know the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, the most important of which is that we all live our lives in one of three personal realities/worldviews, right?
And we all know that what other systems refer to as ‘personality types’ is simply the way that anyone would act if they lived in one of these three worldviews. Further, from the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all know that what we call the ‘worldview ‘of the clark is characterized as the life of the Outsider and that the ‘personality type’ that we refer to as scotts, well these are the people who are living in, responding and reacting to, a reality that is best described as the world of the predator and with rogers, we see how a person might choose to act provided that they are perceiving a reality in which the world is quantifiable and there are independent and abstract standards of behavior that all people are  subject to and only by following these Rules is a good life assured.
The thing is, we have recognized the basic things about the characteristics of these three personality types, for example, we all know:

• if you see a girl with a streak of purple in her hair, footwear with sufficient complexity to set off the airport metal detectors, then you are most likely looking a clark
• if you are forced to drive into the on-coming lane because there is a group of men riding bicycles while wearing clothing made of a material that was last seen in the 1980s and they are all decorated with corporate logos, then it’s a better than even chance you have just avoided running over a bunch of rogers (shame on you!)
• should you call across the street to your neighbor that you need your lawn mower back and he proceeds to finish his lawn and pushes it back to your house, without bothering to turn it off…and despite the gravel shooting out of the discharge vent, he doesn’t stop telling you the funniest joke he has ever heard, then you have met your first scott

Let me relate an example of this pushing the boundaries of the understanding of the three personality types. Today I was talking to an associate in my office and for reasons I forget the topic became phone conversations. (Now, this business associate, ‘S’*. is aware of the Wakefield Doctrine and has an understanding of the principles and the characteristics of the three personality types. She, in fact, is a clark with a strong secondary rogerian aspect. Her husband, it was established in earlier conversations, is a roger). In any event, at one point in the conversation today, I said, “hey I bet your husband hates to use the phone” And the answer was “Yes”. Obviously the rest of the conversation was about the Wakefield Doctrine and why it might be that rogers hate the phone!
This is the point of today’s Post, the pushing of the boundaries of understanding of the way that the Wakefield Doctrine is expressed in the lives of the three personality types.

So hurry the hell up and Comment and/or call us on a Saturday, we can use your help. The people who are currently adding to this understanding, people like Ms. AKH and Molly and DS#1 and Steve and them and even the Progenitor roger will totally welcome the additional help!

* I told ‘S’ that we are big on the right to choose your own name around here, so I would simply use the single letter, until she announces herself, either in a Comment or on a Call.