Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!  The only self-improvement Movement that is based on the fact that all people are born with the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic ways, as a clark or (as a) scott or (as a ) roger. 

(What do you mean, tomorrow’s guest  ‘is not lined up yet’? How can it be Thursday frickin morning and no guest arranged for Video Friday!!??)

The reason that we call the Wakefield Doctrine a ‘self-improvement Movement’  is that, despite the fact that we all settle into one of  three personality types (usually by the age of 4 or 5), we never lose the capacity to experience the world the way that the other two  types do!   
As  a self-improvement movement,  we believe that change and development can only come from the individual. Furthermore, it is our conviction that most conventional approaches, belief systems and treatment modalities such as  MBTA, Oscar, Meyers & Briggs, and colorgenics*,  totally miss the mark because they insist on a  focus predicated on what is wrong with the individual.  This is not inconsistent with the ‘disease model’ that dominates most sort of the disease model, ‘cept they are talking about your life, your actual reality that you live and breathe in every day. They want you to believe that it is you that is the problem, not ‘the world’ (or the people in it).

(Seriously…you are supposed to have at least a hint at who tomorrow’s Video interview guest was going to be!!  “We have the rest of today”…now what the hell is that supposed to mean?!) 

This is different!  Here at the Doctrine we say, ‘hey, it is not you! It’s the world that you are living in!!’ That’s right, you read that correctly. We maintain that most of the problems that people encounter, on a day-to-basis is a world that is a perfect reflection of their personality type. A clark will encounter a world that has everything they need to be healthy, yet perpetually dissatisfied outsiders; the scotts reading this will look up from their computers and see: prey and predators and a world of action and adventure and our rogerian friends will bask in the glow of knowing that they are the center of the universe and (because of this smug knowledge) will know that all is right with the world.

( So, what you are telling me is that we don’t have a guest lined up for tomorrow’s Video Friday??! I don’t care who you thought you had! No, we are not going to do a re-run! Get someone on the phone and set up the interview).

Sorry about the slightly contrived-sounding asides in today’s Post. The fact of the matter is that we have come to like the idea of interviewing people for Video Friday, but the person I thought I might get, I still have not made the connection with in order to do the interview.
Anyone of you Readers up for a telephone interview about the Wakefield Doctrine and it’s benefits? Write a quick comment (your email won’t show publicly, of course), I will follow-up and let you know how these interviews are done. Actually, no secret there; I get in my car, put the Wakefield Doctrine hat on my damn dashboard and dial your number. I ask questions about what you like about the Doctrine and how you explain it to people, we chat a little and thats it! All in about 8 minutes. So write me a Comment, already!

Well, lets put up a video and we will hope for the best. Hey, if tomorrow you have to sit through a video of a clark explaining about clarks, don’t blame us! 
Hey! did you know that Jimi Hendrix was a clark? Well he was!  Watch the following clip from Live at Monterey Pop and tell me he wasn’t. (at 5:00 into video, Hendrix says, ‘yeah, I know I missed a verse, don’t worry’)