Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Great Drive/Call-in last night! DS#1, Ms. AKH and Molly called in and we had a spirited discussion focused on topics ranging from the role of the secondary aspect (relative to the predominant form) to the best strategy to employ when explaining the Wakefield Doctrine to a stranger on a train.
…now that we have cleared the room of:
- anyone under the age of 31
- anyone up this early on a Sunday who accidentally types in Wakefield Doctrine instead of ‘Hot Chicks and White Whine’
- scotts
- people from California and Tucson (really the same place when viewed from the East Coast), who were just about ready to weigh in with a Comment
- the judges from the ‘Type Something/Anything and Pretend it is a Blog Post Contest’ (I don’t think we made it to the sem-eye Finals)
- rogers, goaded by a clark, begrudgingly comes to the Doctrine saying (to the clark) “OK I really would like to see this site of yours, it sounds really cutting edge and original”
- people who work third shift
- clarks of the male persuasion, watching from the sidelines (i.e. from ‘the Facebook’) ready with their own Comparison Chart… get this far and click off…. now really pissed off
- and finally, the person staying with this thing out of that perverse need to find out the punchline, a condition/quality, often found in clarks that when viewed in a positive light looks like ‘never give up until successful‘ but really is, ‘give up already!’
The Wakefield Doctrine is a unique approach to understanding the behavior of the people in our lives.
The Wakefield Doctrine is a very easy to learn approach to figuring out personality types in the people who matter to us, our spouses and friends, girlfriends and co-workers, boyfriends and classmates
The Wakefield Doctrine is a useful tool that you can use to change the things about yourself that you have always wanted to change but have not been able to change (or keep changed)
So, if you are still ‘here’, read…..learn….ask questions.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain!
Come, clarks! you are not going to live forever and this is not a dress rehearsal for ‘tomorrow when it really matters’
Hey! scotts! hate to tell you, but if you are still reading this, there is something wrong with you and no amount of shouting or singing, yelling or swearing will change it… stay with us, we will give you an edge
rogers… whatever (tell you what, stay in the background until you see the ‘little r trademark symbol’ on this thing of ours, then you will know that lots of people already know about it and like it and then you will know that it is safe to use and enjoy…. too bad, every herd needs someone to steer the herd…
About clarkscottroger
It was Popeye, was it not, to spew the famous words “I am what I am and that’s all that I am” or at least that is the “translation”.
But what would Popeye be saying if he knew about the Wakefield Doctrine? Huh?
There has been much talk lately about secondary aspects. Each of us has a predominant self, and secondary is, well, second. Not to deny it’s importance as it relates to our interacting with the world, but it is afterall an afterthought for some who are not actively trying to change something in life. It seems the challenge of late is to recognize cues that magnifiy the fact that perhaps what we think we are “hearing” is being filtered by our own predominant self brains irrespective of what the other person may actually be expressing. How can you know what the proper interpretation of what someone is saying?
I seem to have a ramble on concerning rhetrospective recognition. “Maybe you got it wrong”. Maybe you got the interpretation of what the another person was really expressing….wrong.
(above comment resulting from lingering effects of severe food poisoning….can’t wait to read this when I am not delerious!) LOL
P.S. But at least I left a comment. Aaagh…..have to run……………………………
hey in there!! good Comment! no rush…
Since what we are trying to accomplish is find a way for people who live in three distinct realities to understand each other, I think it is not un-reasonable for a few Theasauri and dictionaries to get thrown. But you make an essential point, the Doctrine is predicated on the notion that what ‘personality types’ are more truly understood as the character of the individual’s worldview than it is a list of descriptions of behaviors.
Know the world (that of the outsider, the land of predators or the meadows of the herd) and you will, not only know the ‘personality type’, you will know the person.
This is true, your last statement. You will know someone quite well at the onset.
The challenge then becomes (clarks! lol) one of participating in the “emotional currency” (did you use this term last Sat. night Molly?) of another’s worldview. Participating as a clark, or a scott or a roger. On their terms. Within the framework that is the world of a clark, scott or roger.
(sounding more sane? the fish knives/hooks have stopped gutting me for the time being – that is until I stand up)
DS, I’ve been beaming healing auras and positive vibes, man, for hours now. Should be there any minute.
Food poisoning is truly the worst affliction ever.
I recall doing a gig somewhere out on the Cape, and having some fruit salad from a kiosk in the Mall. In the middle of the first set that night, had to race off the stage and pull a guy out of the way to get to the one bathroom stall. Good times. It’s only rock and roll.
Why thank you kind sir. After having been up every hour on the hour last night to relieve myself of more body parts (they say the spleen serves no purpose anyway), I find that today I am feeling a little less bad:)
Indeed, it is only rock and roll. I must say that your situation – wa-ay worse! To be expected to perform in a party atmosphere when bad fruit doesn’t want you to. Well, that is the pits. (bad pun intended LOL)