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the Wakefield Doctrine: a tool for self-improvement, “…be of sin, the double cure”

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( normal behavior classified into 3 distinct, inter-related and fun personality types )

It’s Wednesday morning, (no, don’t worry, this is not going to be a ‘Days of the Week’ thing, we did that last week! ), and it is time to talk about something we have spent too little time on, i.e. how to get something from all this reading you have presumably been doing! If you are a frequent Reader, we will simply say, ‘we all live in a personal reality’ characterized as being:

  1. that of the Outsider a person who is able to wake up today and wonder if today is the day they succeed in ‘figuring it out’; this is your clarklike personality type, the only one of the three personality types who will think in terms of ‘the world out there‘. clarks will work harder than they need to on the fringes of life, driven by the need to understand…intellectually…what is it that makes them different
  2. that of the Predator, who being in a seemingly black-and-white world where it is ‘kill-or-be-killed’, are driven by their appetites, motivated by their need know where they stand among others, always an instant from deciding: fight or flight; scotts live a simple, exuberant life…they tend to be ‘curious without a need to reflect’, courageous without sentimentality, all the while living to act and living through their actions.
  3. the life of the Herd Member which is not as mundane or un-imaginative as it may sound; rogers are the people who know there is a Right way and a Wrong way, they know that (if) 2 + 2 = 4 today, it will equal 4 tomorrow and next week and in the year 2525, rogers look to the world with the certainty of seeing the way we are all meant to be, they protect tradition, maintain order and insist on civility, even if they have to kill (nearly) everyone to achieve it

There, everyone up to speed? Don’t forget, the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that while we all live in one of the three worldviews, we never lose the inherent capacity to experience the world as the other two personality types. Though you may be a roger, you have the innate capacity to live and act as a clark or a scott1 And it is this inherent capacity to experience more than one personal reality that distinguishes the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improvement.
While most other self-improvement systems require you to take assessment of what you think are bad habits/traits and then impose a regime to slowly learn a different way to act in a given situation, (all the while you are trying to repress your own need to act a certain way), in order to ‘improve yourself’, the Doctrine takes a way different approach.  For us, it is not a matter of eliminating a bad habit and learning a new response, it is simply a matter of reaching within yourself and adding to what you already are, as a person.

…lets say you fear public speaking… no, lets say you are so self-conscious that you don’t like to talk in front of more than 1 person (if they are strangers, you know like at the employment office or maybe a new class in school). That’s a fairly common situation that causes people to go looking up self-improvement systems to get help.
Wellll, allow us to boast, the Wakefield Doctrine‘s approach to self-improvement  is rather a little more simple than that,  in terms of what you need to do,2 which is find your scottian aspect and let that part of you speak in front of the group. The advantage is that, if you are successful, then not only will you (in your scottian aspect) do a great job, but you will have fun doing it. It won’t be a “oh man! I barely got through that…what do you mean I have to practice??! I’ll never be able to get up the nerve to do that again!”  It will be more, “damn! that was fun… where’s the next bunch of strangers?”

Alright I am out of time here…too many words… go back to the Comments on Monday’s Post if you want to start reading about ‘how’ to use your ‘other two’ personality types to improve your life.

 

 

1) it is a given that anyone reading this blog more than once (on purpose) is probably a clark or, if a scott or a roger, you will have what we currently call ‘a strong secondary aspect that is clarklike‘  but seeing how I am trying to get this Post written in less than 500 words, I will save the discussion of secondary aspects for another day

2) remember rogersscotts we say ‘simple’  we did not say ‘easy’

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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