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the Wakefield Doctrine lets start at the start

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

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the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding the behavior of the people in our lives, it is a perspective that we can employ that will show the world in a (slightly) different light. (like the cool photo above same galaxy different wave lengths).

Stop!

Please pardon the above, lame, clarklike effort at explaining the Wakefield Doctrine. In my defense, I will say, in the past week, I haven’t felt the drive to write Posts that has been behind nearly every other post you will find on these pages. Maybe it’s my recent foray into exercising, maybe it’s my insistence* that I have to write a book about the Wakefield Doctrine, maybe a lot of things. But there is one thing that has been with me since I became amazed at the way the Wakefield Doctrine blog drove me to write it… and that is the clarklike fear of the future. (which is pretty odd, you know, as clarks spend our lives in the future, hiding from the past). Specifically this fear is that if I don’t write frequently enough, I’ll forget how to do it. This statement is a lie, however. The real fear, not necessarily not the real reason, but the real fear is that if I don’t keep it going, I won’t feel the urge and the drive to write.  But the next worst thing to not writing a Post, in my secret estimation, is to write a ‘true confessions’ Post. The, ‘oh dear what a trial it is to be me here… does the world out there care? Please re-assure me that I am doing well, and in gratitude for your gesture (one that you would make regardless of my plea), I will feel bad about it.

(lol) yeah, seriously, in the emotional economy (of the subjective world of clarks**), to feel bad is to pay tribute. it is to pay for… the good things in our lives.

(It is 7:08 am… I promised myself that I would leave the house at 7:00 am so I will Post this and return by 11:00 am  to be cont’d)

 

(well,  not quite 11:00 but never the less)… the one thing I will say, without reservation about the Wakefield Doctrine is this: if you learn it enough to be able to use it, which is to say, be able to correctly infer the worldview of the other person, you cannot not benefit. I always learn, gain insight, perceive with a slightly different inference things about myself every single time I have ‘used’ the Wakefield Doctrine. The saying we have?  ‘the Doctrine is for you, not them’ is so very true. I look to understand the people in my life, through the perspective afforded by the Wakefield Doctrine and, in the process of understanding them, I see myself affected. So, my ‘knowledge/understanding/appreciation may be of the other person, but in a weird Heisenbergian way, I am tied into the process. The observer becomes one with the observed. Very fun. Very aggravating. Totally frustrating. Wouldn’t have it any other way.)

…back to work. thanks to Lizzi and Kristi’s well-intended thoughts

 

* one that I a feel strongly enough to continue (to feel) but not strongly enough (to do what needs to be done)

** as if there were any other quality

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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

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  1. frist! back later!

  2. lrconsiderer says:

    Well then, no commiserations. Anyway it’s like riding a bike.

    did you get my email?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Yes. Yes, I did. Thank you.

      (I have not read it yet…for a number of clarklike reasons. Reasons that I am sure you will divine, nothing to do with the email, more to do with the fun and the process of which it is concerned (yes, I am trying for a certain element of surprise….including, apparently, myself!)

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      true (the bicycle thing)… plus I have built-in motivation in the form of ‘burying a bad Post’ lol

  3. Kristi says:

    I think everyone gets in an writing funk every now and then. Take a break if you need to, or write a woe-is-me post, if that’s better, but there is no need to do penance. Readers will stick with you, even if you miss writing a post every so often.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Kristi

      I think that, a with most things in life (imo) that my difficulties are, to a some degree self-imposed/induced/started…but I am grateful for the thought

  4. jny_jeanpretty says:

    Here is what I conclude from what I just read: I seem to think that you don’t want me to tell you you are terrific because you will not believe me. clark man. who is writing this comment? would I be reading this is you are not terrific?
    write what you can when you can.you are a great writer. I mean it,
    jeny

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      lol (in a good way) thank you jenay.
      I don’t mind what anyone says here in these pages, as this is a part of the ‘contract with the readers’…or, at least how I interpret the agreement between writers of Wakefield Doctrine posts and Readers and participants in the Wakefield Doctrine blog and such.

  5. zoebyrd says:

    self-imposed limits are by far the most restricting. The question of course is what purpose are they serving for you? A question for which I’m sure you know the answer ….so when youre ready you will do as you will….whether within those restricted parameters or not. Of course this is the proverbial “you,” meaning “we all,” ie your not alone w this one…thought about that ghost writer yet?

  6. I could so not do that for clark, but I would! jeh

  7. the pretty exploding universe in the middle of that pic up there!

  8. Denise says:

    “if you learn it enough to be able to use it, which is to say, be able to correctly infer the worldview of the other person, you cannot not benefit.”

    “If you learn it enough”. This part is key as learning the Doctrine requires an investment. Of time. In and for oneself. I can attest first hand how fun and useful the Doctrine is. Like any valued tool, it requires frequent use to keep it in good working order. And…practice makes perfect.

    I agree wholeheartedly that if used correctly, there is tremendous benefit to be had from the Doctrine. And this is where it may be confusing for some people. In particular, the assumption of what is meant by “benefit”. What a clark, scott or roger identifies/perceives as a benefit will vary quite differently. As differently as the reasons each would have to learn the Doctrine.

    Being a clark, it’s about self-development/ evolution of self. It provides me an incredible vehicle by which to enlighten myself about myself and my relationships with others. One of the by- products of this is that it not only allows me to clearly see what is but what is not.
    You know what they say – “the Doctrine is for you, not them”. It is always for me. One of my biggest “revelations” had to do with really “seeing” a particular relationship. I suddenly realized that I had been projecting my values, my perception of what that relationship should be. The thing of it is, unless that other person was a clark, I got it all wrong! LOL

    I’m babbling at this point. And I indulged in it. If I wasn’t so tired I could have condensed those paragraphs down to a couple of scottian sentences. Maybe next time.

    P.S. “in the emotional economy (of the subjective world of clarks**), to feel bad is to pay tribute. it is to pay for… the good things in our lives.” Anyone up for graduate level Doctrine?