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30 the Wakefield Doctrine “…Thought there might be a follow up to my comment, seeing as how you are nearing the end.”

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

NAOMI WATTS and TOM HOLLAND star in THE IMPOSSIBLE

You know those ‘warnings’ that I thrown into Posts, almost as an aside, ‘hey! …thought you might want to know’? The most frequent is  ‘…once you get to the point of knowing the Wakefield Doctrine well enough to recognize,  the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life, you will not be able to not recognize them’? Let me add a new warning:

‘at the point that you understand the Wakefield Doctrine well enough to correctly infer your own predominate worldview, you will realize that being aware, (of your predominate worldview),  diminishes some of the un-self-conscious spontaneity and fun, the simple joy and certain solace, the confidence and effectiveness that you once possessed, in how you related yourself to the world (and the people) around you.’

Take heart! The advantage of knowing the Wakefield Doctrine and being able to employ its perspective as an additional tool for life, far outweighs the disadvantage represented in the Comment from scottian FOTD, Christine,  “I need to think like a clark. Do you know how hard it is for me to think like a clark? Ugh.”
Ugh indeed! This, a scott seeing the world as a clark would experience it, is the most difficult thing in the world, (for a scott). It is as difficult a task as it is for a clark to feel like a roger  or a roger to act like a scott. But, for as difficult as it is, it is possible and the resulting perspective will allow you to know ‘the other person’ better than you have any right to know them. 

As we know (or we should know), while everyone is born with the capacity to experience the world as any of the three types and, although, everyone grows up and develops ‘their personality type’ in just one worldview (aka predominate worldview), we retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. But! it is not a math thing, there is no requirement that anyone have a significant secondary or tertiary aspect. I can simply be a clark. I can be all roger. I might be a scott.  The thing of it is, if you’re of one worldview, in other words, a predominate with no secondary or tertiary aspects, there is little likelihood you’d still be reading (and understanding) (and enjoying) this here Doctrine here. You, my Readers,  have that quality, a certain combination of curiosity and self-confidence that makes a thing like the Wakefield Doctrine: attractive (in a quirky way), interesting (in a way that some of your friends surely would not agree with), and useful (in ways that you are only beginning to suspect will be difficult).

None of you who are still reading this, are simply a clark or scott or roger, with no secondary or tertiary aspects.
Hey! want to hear something that will make the clarks say, ‘no! don’t! you’ve made such progress’! and get the scotts to laugh and look around  and cause some of the rogers to get mad?

‘every Reader of this blog has a significant secondary clarklike aspect, provided that they are not already a predominate worldview clark’

So enough with the Warning(s)!!!!!  lets do something useful.

Here in blockquotes is a common life-situation of a type that the Doctrine was meant to be helpful with:

“Habits being hard to break… (a)  a mid-teen “clark” to change some … bad habits.”

“He honestly thinks the choices he is making are the best ones at the time, even though they are completely counter to solving the actual problem. They solve the immediate one… but not the long-term one”

So…. lets imagine what it’s like to be a young clark…. (to be continued,  in yesterday’s Comment thread)

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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. zoebyrd says:

    “…diminishes some of the un-self-conscious spontaneity and fun, the simple joy and certain solace, the confidence and effectiveness that you once possessed, in how you related yourself to the world…”

    and this is why I resolve to never quite understand you or that enigma you call the Wakefield Doctrine… that said… 31 more days? Oct. is here.

  2. zoebyrd says:

    oh and frist of the last.

  3. I think right now I fit into the category “zombie”, way too tired for any rational thought or worldview :-) Off to bed now!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      lol… (we) know the feeling…. stop back soon, have no idea what the ‘theme’ for October will be, but I’m sure it will be …. interesting

  4. The WD…a daily topic of conversation at my house. ALWAYS.
    Most recently? I had a parent summit Monday evening. Holy crap, I was the facilitator of a group of parents, most of whom were rogers. So contrarian. Good grief. I had two fellow clarks there who were doodling and other wise looking beyond the group and thinking…thinking…thinking…

    Dang. This here doctrine has changed my life.

    Oh and one other quick thought: Teddy Roosevelt was a freakin scott. His brother (forget his name) was such a clark. We’re watching that PBS series on the Roosevelts and looking at the pictures are so mind boggling! They wear their worldviews!

    Okay…back to my crazy-ass life of the moment…

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Cyndi

      love the expression, ‘They wear their worldviews‘ very apt, yo

      we clark do have that…I think an old expression is ‘1,000 yard stare’….lol (not that that’s a bad thing! when a clark is seen with that expression, good chance he/she is working on their invisibility )

  5. zoebyrd says:

    So you doin this today or are ya gonna go the predictable route?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      z

      Not certain…. (I try to anticipate everything in my head so much, that I can never be sure if an experience is déjà vu or déjà extend )

      I will admit to what I fear may be indulging in a false pride, i.e. I am enjoying Cyndi’s Comment this morning, a part of me is loathe to publish a new Post, because….. well, ’cause then everyone won’t see how this thing really is of value to others….

      (hey! is this thing on?!!)

      or I could post in Comments….

      …I suspect I will return to normal, the trick is to find a away to return to a different normal, ya know?

      • zoebyrd says:

        so you post a ” best of ” post and include your favorite comments re how the Doctrine is put to use… youve done posts around comments before! No one will accuse you of false pride… We all know youre a narcissistic pr***. No worries my friend… do as you feel best said the secondary Roger and shrink.

        • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

          lol
          funny (for me) disturbing (for you) I was thinking along similar lines.
          to get some practical situations… or, and this is a little bit of a evolutionette going on with the business of how, for the people who are capable of getting the Doctrine, they will be looking to it to make up for what it has …diminished (of the effect their predominate worldview). (Hey it was yesterday’s Post, am I supposed to remember everything? lol but it makes me think that other than being in front of a lot of people, the Doctrine will attract those for whom the Doctrine is of value/use.
          ya know?

          • zoebyrd says:

            “…they will be looking to it to make up for what it has …diminished (of the effect their predominate worldview). ”

            i dont get what you mean here… really, no joking. Z~

            • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

              “…at the point that you understand the Wakefield Doctrine well enough to correctly infer your own predominate worldview, you will realize that being aware, (of your predominate worldview), diminishes some of the un-self-conscious spontaneity and fun, the simple joy and certain solace, the confidence and effectiveness that you once possessed, in how you related yourself to the world (and the people) around you.”
              from yesterday’s Post.
              in other words, it should not be necessary to have to ‘sell’ the benefits of the Doctrine, at least to those who have gotten to the point of understanding it enough to believe it… however, they will want to see the additional benefits made clear

              • zoebyrd says:

                Oh yeah, sorry, I remember that now…
                So that response (your last paragraph in the above reply) begs the question : Do you want the Doctrine to be open only to those who happen upon it or do you want to reach a wider audience? It implies the latter if you are relying upon only those with an understanding of it… that implies they have invested time in this here blog here and learned it… ie you dont have to sell it… but then again it becomes a very limited tool due to lack of exposure. (Not that a following of 117 isnt impressive but how many actually stick around on anyone’s blog? ie out of my 100 or so I think I have 3.)

                Maybe you await the Wakefield prophet who will appear and carry this here doctrine here to diversified and foreign audiences who quest only for an understanding of the creator of said Doctrine? Or not… dunno… just wonderin’. I think your earlier prostletizing (Matthew 20:16: “So the last will be Frist, and the Frist will be seriously excited.”) got me all inquisitive and stuff…

                • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

                  point taken ( I think I not waiting for a Doctrine prophet…. I appreciate this as the reminder… this whole exercise is a proof of concept, I guess I gots to get up and pretend I’m starting for the start.)
                  Actually all of the business of the people who have come and understand the Doctrine on their own is a great example of what I think I’ll call…. reality relativism.

                  lol yeah! back to making up out and in rageous claims and statements and such!

                  But you are correct about the one long term thing that has stumped me, how to get in front of many more people and Readers… I know that the Doctrine is something people find: interesting, helpful and fun…. just gots to get the venue. Not that where I am right now is not as good as I have ever had, and I remain grateful to the extent that if I don’t get more Readers, there is still way more satisfaction and other benefits than I would have thought back when I started this here blog here.