Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
Lets start with the Title of today’s Post. Regular Readers of the Doctrine will immediately spot that ‘three thing’ that is so pervasive around this blog. While it certainly doesn’t hurt, there was in this case, and in most, but not all other instances, no deliberate effort to come up with three contrasting, complementary and/or worldview-appropriate examples.
But, this being Monday, we will set aside the intriguing inferences and simply ideal with the issues at hand:
- what is this Doctrine thing
- what good does it do me, the first time Reader
- ….and hey! Doctrine dudes, watcha got in mind for this here coming week here?
a) the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on behavior, a way to categorize personality types and most importantly, it is a way to better understand how we all, as individuals, relate ourselves to the world around us. Using the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool, you will be better able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. What you will find is that what many label, ‘personality type’, is simply the appropriate response to a world that may (or may not) be the same as the one you are experiencing. the Wakefield Doctrine will help you through this moment of frisson, that stomach-touching realization that maybe, just maybe, the world itself is…to a certain degree, an individual affair. Once you have gotten through that moment (and, if you are still reading it, then you have), the Wakefield Doctrine will say to you: “cool. you believe that it is possible that reality itself is a personal thing. don’t worry about it being chaotic or out of control, everyone living in a different world and such! we got ya covered. this being an issue of individual reality, we will step up and say, ‘not to worry! there are only three characteristic worldviews that will account for the people in your life. and no, we will not be trapping you in an infinitely self-nesting quote loop’…”).
Here you go: clarks are the people who grew up learning about the world as Outsiders. they are kind and fearful, creative and overly private, and they dress funny and mumble; scotts are the personality type you get if you totally focus on the coping skills of a person who lives life as a Predator would, they are action-oriented and totally impulsive, they are quick to act and slow to think, they are great friends and will hit on anything with a pulse, they dress hot and talk loud; rogers are who you would want to be if you could imagine the world as being a quantifiable place, with common sense being real and impulsivity being anathema, they are the reason you have a computer to read this on and they are the reason that when you go to work today, you probably will not tell everyone what you read here, they are warm and they will burn you at a convenient, well-constructed stake…if necessary.
b) nothing today… check back here tonight. If you do, then the work can begin. Provided you remember to come back here and leave a Comment. Then, then the fun begins. Only if you don’t pass this off as ‘man! that was odd’, then after the Comment you can begin to learn the really cool stuff and then it will be almost too late to stop. If that is a concern, write yourself a note right now and tell yourself that what you think you read here wasn’t really what you thought you read….
c) blogtalk radio on Friday…sometime, maybe. TMT Tuesday here tomorrow. More of this kinda stuff
y’all come back now, yeah?
About clarkscottroger
FIrst comment during the week is definitely an anticlimactic affair. Was just checking in to see what the plan for life as one clark knows it is for the day… Have a good one…Z
ps… I am all of those things but I do not mumble …anymore.
zoe
mumbling has totally been unfairly smeared and bum-rap(ped) too! It is for the Commentationers…not so for those of us reading (and writing) this here blog here.
(I actually just read today’s Post* and I kinda like it!)
* yes, I did write it, but I usually don’t sit and read it (editing issues notwithstanding) until later in the day.
It WAS a good one… hey are those ruins of Chinese soldiers? I came back cuz I couldn’t figure out the pic before I had to get back to work.
zoe
yes, yes they are! (Given that my photo selection process, before starting or after writing, is totally beyond me… I suspect I would be wise not to try and figure what standards by mind is bring to bear in this, most critical/fun part of Post writing.)
Really? So you just choose your pics all willy nilly? Like that cool noir thing on your home page for this post… don’t you have to search for something? Do you have some sort of photo library with a random generator?
zoe
not so willy (or nilly) I will go to ‘the google’ and type in word or a phrase or sometimes something as innocent as checking the definition of a term and then hit ‘images’ And I look and stare as long as it takes before the ‘right photo’ jumps out at me. I love the Pulp covers, popular magazine covers (especially the 40s and early 50s)… I’m sure I’ve said this before, there have been times when I will get a phrase in my head and search the images resulting until something speaks to me.
pulp that’s the term I was looking for, pulp. Wow using that method I could see where you wouldn’t want to necessarily explore your process.
lol
I wonder what would happen if you ever changed the personality type order in your list and began with rogers or scotts…do you think the whole post would come out differently?
Lizzi
Interesting thought, not certain what you mean. (lol that is by a clark)
Hey!! Great idea!…I loved to hear more…tell what you mean you have really great eyes ( nah…too easy)
He’s clearly afraid to do that, he thinks we don’t know that it’s just him, telling us about something that we already know. You can see how right I am, can’t you? ( rogers…)
:p
Something I wonder sometimes.. Could the Doctrine be more than just how we see the world. The more I learn about it, the more I wonder whether I am a Calrk who wants to be a Roger so badly. Any thoughts?
Stephanie
You are where most people who (end up) ‘getting it’ are at this stage of the learning curve, very cool.
I will say that the Doctrine is, as you suggest, more than how we see the world… it is (a description) of the nature of the world that we experience. This aspect is tough to convey, the reality of the worldviews that the Doctrine suggests. That you are a clark would totally be consistent with wanting to be a roger… (that can be used as a primary characteristic of that worldview, the tolerance of the idea that we think we might be better off being someone else.)
The best thing about the Doctrine is, as we say, the fact that ‘you can’t get it wrong’ and… ‘you can’t break it’. As you become more and more comfortable with the nature and character of the three worldviews, try them out. Imagine how whatever the situation you are in at the moment, would appear to a clark or a scott or roger. (Keep in mind: we all have a predominant worldview, aka ‘the reality we wake up to’ and that is our context, but we never lose the potential/access to the ‘other two’. There will be times when you totally feel like a roger or a scott. Perfectly normal. As a matter of fact, we rely quite a bit on a person’s secondary and tertiary aspects to get us from: this is ‘the type’ to ‘this is Lizzi or this is Zoe or Cyndi‘. But don’t bother so much with the secondary aspects for now, rather continue exploring the worldview of what you are pretty sure you are (a clark) until you start to spot other clarks in the world around you.
btw we know what kinds of footwear you have on the floor of your closet! lol
hey! let me give you one other handy hint: when you think about rogers and scotts and clarks (oh my!) the inclination is to think, this is a rogerian situation or a scottian one. We have a saying: ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’ and that’s meant to remind us that the Doctrine offers us a perspective, a way to see through the eyes of another and while rogers excel at the profession of firefighters, there are clark and scotts in the field and teaching… all three are found in that field and even to situations: getting fired, getting hired, asking a person on a date, anything: the question the Doctrine is intended to answer is: ‘how does that(fill in the blank) ‘manifest’ for the roger or the scott or the clark…what does it represent in their worldview, how do they feel about it/think about it/react to it…. (nothing like a quick little pointer lol)
So I was in class this evening and I kept thinking, roger, roger, roger, clark. Scott, roger, roger, roger.
Then we went to see a Cuban poet as part of our class. Classic clark. Though he was 73 and didn’t give a damn that what he said might offend someone. HAHAHA. He was great to hear. :)
And the fact that I go walking around mumbling clark, scott, roger…well, either I’m sick, or I have been utterly assimilated by the Doctrine. Resistance was futile.
Cyndi
(yeah, do you think I should make the warning a little stronger for the new Readers? “Once you start seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, you will never not see them” ?)
actually I am glad to hear that… it is the process of becoming fluent in Doctrine… you will not have to translate in your head, you will know, ‘watch that one with the quick eyes and fidgeting… does he spot the clarklike cashier or should I shout a warning…spook the prey and risk having an angry scott on my case’ you know, normal days