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

Back to class.  Pencils down. Close your test booklets. Seeing how this was an ‘open book’ exam, we will go right to a review of the Answers.

clarks:  Matt and Ellen and Megan!

scotts: Brad, Robert

rogers: Ben, Rhianna, Taylor

A quick Doctrine refresher before we review the correct answers.
We all have the potential to grow up and develop in one of three characteristic worldviews.¹ These three worldviews are that of: ‘the Outsider’ (clarks), the Predator (scotts) and the Herd Member (rogers). At an early age we all find ourselves with one predominant worldview, however, we never lose the capacity to experience the world as the ‘other two’ worldviews would. Some people, new to the Doctrine complain that they know they are one type, but sometimes they are another. Not to worry. You have one predominant worldview, but you can have a significant secondary (and even a) tertiary aspect. Totally normal, but outside the scope of this explanation.
The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, that allows us to infer the nature of the reality the other person is experiencing. Do this correctly and you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves. It’s all with the board of Education here at the Wakefield Doctrine. LOL (Learn the characteristics of the three worldviews. Observe the behavior of the people in our lives. Infer how the other person ‘relates themselves to the world around them‘.)

On to it now!  About our celebrities:

1. scotts? Easy! look at their eyes. Look for the focus, the alertness. As Predators, scotts will hardly ever be caught not paying attention to what is going on around them. It is what they do. They are socially aggressive and they are sociable, but you will sense that it (their interest, their charm, while focused on you isn’t really  …personal.) Temperament?  two words: mercurial.
2. clarks (also kinda easy) and again, the first thing to look for are the eyes, or to be more concise ‘where are they watching from‘ In the eyes of a clark will always be found 2 things (both or one, depends): fear and distance. Maybe that should be only one quality. a clark, if you pay close attention, is watching from afar. You will know it when you see it. clarks are not socially aggressive, but they are there and they won’t be leaving until they decide to… there is a saying ‘a clark is not comfortable as the center of attention, but will not tolerate being ignored’.
3. rogers can be tough and sometimes not so much. Consider our Guest Model Ben Affleck. Did you have any doubt at all that he is a roger?  Look at the face, the man is suspecting that there is something that …isn’t quite right going on around him! Now the rogerian women, were much more difficult to identify. (I went and found video interviews to help me decide if they were clarks or rogers). Ms. Swift was difficult. I knew she wasn’t a scott. And I couldn’t sense the distance found in clarks. Finally I looked at her through the lens of the rogerian worldview. There is a sense of competency and deliberateness to her, in interviews and in situations where not everything is choreographed. She knows what she is doing and knows that she knows it. And she appears friendly and enthusiastic and comfortable with people, another characteristic of her people.

Well, that’s all the time we have today. I trust everyone enjoyed this exercise.

(For any of  you feeling discouraged, feeling like you will never get this Doctrine thing, I will say, ‘knock it off!’ If you are reading this, then you have the qualities that are necessary to not only understand the Doctrine, but to use it and have fun with it. Most people don’t. I say this without false modesty or flattery, my presentation of the Wakefield Doctrine is a work in progress. I accept that it will someday be totally simple, the website will be organized and the examples will be plain as the hand on your face. But until then, I’m glad you people are out there. The Readers who enjoy playing with ideas, imagining different realities…you know curious and intellectually confident men and woman? And as soon as they show up, you’re all out of here.)

Music video as my reward for getting this Post done at a reasonable hour.

1)These worldviews/personal realities are real, as in, ‘you know what you see and hear and smell and sense and feel in your world today’. And it doesn’t matter if you are sitting in the back of the class, hoping not to be called on, not because you don’t know the lesson, but because you do know the lesson that the class is learning, it would just ruin your chance to have friends. It doesn’t matter if you are walking through the office, trying to look like you are competent at the job you were hired for, even though you don’t feel like you are doing the job competently, at least whenever your Manager calls you into their office for a little, ‘give and take, review of possible trouble-spots. It does not even mean a thing if you have prayed and deprived yourself and limited your need to get out and break something, you are determined to keep the family that you have, whether they believe you this time or not.  It is real and it is your reality.