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

Have pretty much decided to do that ’12 to 4 Blog Challenge’ in the coming month of April. The theme will, of course, be the Doctrine and the unifying viewpoint is best expressed as  ‘the ABCs of the Wakefield Doctrine’. So the real work is to find the best word(s) for each letter of the alphabet. My hope is that the result will be a comprehensive explanation of the Doctrine (on April 31st, that is).

So we’ll be accepting suggestions and donations of words in this week before the start of the Challenge. (I don’t believe that there’s anything in the Rules prohibiting  prep work on the Posts, in my case, finding the right words for each letter.  Naturally I’ll  wait until the morning of each day to actually write the Post. I’d love to have the writing skills to be able to pre-write and hone and polish each post, well in advance, but if I did, I be a roger and this would not be the Wakefield Doctrine). If any of you Readers have any favorite letters or better yet! a  lingering question about the Doctrine that starts with a….wait, they all start with a letter! Never mind. Here’s what I have so far:

A is for Apple  (yeah, I know…gotta go with the classics to start. figure to talk about the theory of Adam and Eve and the fruit of Knowledge.. (Spoiler Alert!!!!  Eve was so a clark))

H is for… Hostinae  (?!?!   …that apparently is all I have at this point  not worried…. I know words!! I know a bunch a words, not.worried )

so other than C and S and R   and W

C is for clark

S is for scott

R is for roger

W is for Wakefield Doctrine

E is for (the) everything Rule….  ok, I think I can believe I’ll have the words I need

I is for Identification…

so,  18 or 19 more words and I’ll be all set!

The above is an example of a clarklike approach to problem solving. Now, if anyone out there is thinking, “Excuse me, but if you’re going to say that a clark will approach a problem by breaking it down into component parts to be dealt with individually, I hate to disappoint you, but that is clearly the rogerian approach to problem solving.”
Allow me to retort,  “yes, you are right” (rogers tend to always be right…repetitiously, meticulously and aggravatingly always right with the answers to questions….as they define the question.) However, this is an interesting example of the surface similarities of the three worldviews, more precisely, it’s an example of how, as we go through our day, we interpret the actions and behavior of the people around us, in terms of our own worldview. This is entirely natural, of course, but we can do so much more with the Wakefield Doctrine as an (additional) perspective on the world. What we try to do is imagine how the interaction is being experienced in the worldview/personal reality of the other person.

a roger would, in fact, break a problem into it’s component parts.

a clark would attempt to understand the question.

a roger seeks the definition of the problem, knowing (in their personal reality) that all is definable and quantifiable, everything is knowable, if not necessarily immediately identifiable. This is why you will see an inordinate number of rogers in the field of engineering and the other hard sciences.

the drive for a clark to understand the question is twofold and, at its heart the same thing: fear  fear of being exposed (by poor, or insufficient performance) as the Outsider. and so, when we do things like the ’30 Day Me and Thee Blog Challenge’ the first thing we try to do is defuse the open-ended parts of the activity, understand it enough to believe that we can perform just like everyone else… only then do we believe that we can enjoy ourselves. (here’s a fun contradiction seen in clarks:  we anticipate  …we try to imagine what a future activity will be, so intensely… imagining every possible variation… ‘if I do this, then she might say that..’ on and on…. so much so that, when we get to the actual, real event,  we appear detached and un-interested.  lol  not the case! it’s just that we’ve lived through the experience so many fricken times in our heads (all in the name of eliminating fear and risk) that we’re just going through the motions…. phoning it in, as they say.