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special holiday Post, the Wakefield Doctrine says… leave your grammar and syntax and such at the door, read it and weep, Mrs. Kennedy!

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

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the Wakefield Doctrine is easy to learn and fun to use.

with the Wakefield Doctrine you can:

  • better understand the behavior of the people in your life
  • better understand your bad habits and why you have them
  • start to see a way to change the things about yourself that you have always wanted to change
  • work with others
  • not fight as much with others, unless you really, really want to and then you will be better at fighting
  • know more about the other person than they know about themselves

Sound too good to be true? Well, there is one…little thing that may not be  quite as simple as say, …having that second bowl of ice cream, saying yes when the boy you crushed on through Junior High School asks you out, the cigarette after making love (provided you are living in the 1960’s or 1970’s*), the feeling of satisfaction that comes when you put the parts back into the lawn mower and it actually starts, the happiness to see a volume of the Hardy Boys (or Tom Swift) on the library  shelf that you hadn’t seen (and didn’t know existed), watching your daughter graduate from high school, watching your son look for his friends on the school bus, instead of looking back at the house, seeing the blog dashboard showing 5 new Comments. No, not quite as simple. But not that difficult.

…here’s the thing. the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that we all experience life on a somewhat….personal basis. The world that you experience is, to a certain is different for you than it is for the person sitting in their car ahead of you as you wait at the traffic light. We all have personal realities. Now this personal reality is nothing too weird or mystical, there are no secret lands where crock pots have built a civilization or horses are 24 feet tall or Columbus discovered Europe in 1492!  It’s just that as we go through our day there are some things that are for us and (maybe) not for others.  the Wakefield Doctrine refers to this notion of personal realities as worldviews and says that there are three distinctly different worldviews and we all grow up and develop and live our lives in one of (them).

the three worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine are:

  1. the Outsider (clarks) we get along with the rest of the world pretty good…most of the time…as long as we remember to pay attention and we (clarks) know that someday we will understand what it is that the other two personality types seem to know… we will learn (we know we can) to be real people
  2. the Predator (scotts) it’s pretty simple and not complicated, the world is exciting and challenging and there are people and things and everything and it’s good enough to be alive and there’s so much to do and who the hell has time to get bogged down in all that theory and crap… hey! you’re alive…come on out and live!
  3. the Herd Member (rogers) there is not so much to life that you need to complicate it and there definitely not a need to try to invent a theory or a belief system, do your best, get along with people and everything will take care of itself…life is good and all you need do is do your part

So there are the three worldviews. Everyone has a predominate worldview (they are a clark or a scott or a roger) but everyone has the potential of the other two. That does not mean that you bounce in-between the three worldviews… everyone has one predominant reality, but sometimes and in some circumstance you will act like one of the other two might…we call this ‘your secondary aspect’. (for example: I am a clark. I know this because I have read the description of the worldview of all three and I identify most with the worldview of the Outsider, i.e. I think that the world is ‘out there’ apart from me, I have an insatiable curiosity and I am creative with a touch of anarchy. However!  I am writing this blog and if you try to make fun of anyone who enjoys the Wakefield Doctrine I will be all up in your shit.. So it would seem that I have a secondary scottian aspect. Get it?)

Thats all there is to it. Learn the characteristics of the three worldviews. Observe your subject and infer the reality that they are experiencing! Pretty simple, isn’t it?

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* after the 1960s and 1970s one of you would ruin it, (the cigarette, not the sex), for the other; before the 1960s or 1970s one of you would have ruined it, (the sex, not the cigarette), for the other

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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

Comments

  1. I missed this last week of not reading my daily few days’ dose of the Wakefield Doctrine :) Hope to catch up with a chat soon, but probably not this weekend as we are going away! First weekend away in 6 years, looooong overdue! Have a super day!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Melanie

      we’ll be here when you get back*…. needless to say, ‘take lots of photos’ have an excellent away weekend

      *until we get the Wakefield Doctrine phone app then we will be everywhere

  2. Slu says:

    Dude… You always crack me up. Always bring a smile. Looking forward to what you got on tap tonight/tomorrow.

    Have a great day, Slu

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Slu

      hey, we try to have fun over here at the Doctrine. What’s the theme this week, do ya know?

      hey..stop in on our Sunday Brunch… if the Doctrine is interesting (to you), then a few minutes live will save a bunch of time reading all them Posts and such

  3. I can be there. Count me! Count me!