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

Two things today: a) reminder for the Frid Vid tomorrow evening at 8:00 pm EST  (we use google hangout for the vid connection, let us know that you plan to attend and I will send an invitation, which should show in your google+ once we’re live)  2) continuation of the explication of the implication of the application of the principles of the Doctrine for the purpose of self-developing oneself.

hey Reader!  you do realize that this ‘Wakefield Doctrine as self-improvement tool’ ain’t gonna be easy, right?  no, I’m quite serious. It is probably the most challenging thing a person can undertake to do. Now, since I am admittedly out to try to get everyone on the planet to learn and use and enjoy the perspective that our little personality theory has to offer, I will say that I am not overly optimistic. The reason I say this is that as I look around at many of the popular ‘personality theory(s)’, I see ways to approach improving our lot in life that are presented as relatively simple to use and apply, requiring only that the user persist in their efforts. I suspect that…. no! make that, I am certain that to achieve popularity and wide appeal, a program for self-improvement needs to be simple to understand and use.

…about this here Doctrine, here.

I will lay claim to ‘simple’. As far as  ‘easy to understand and use’  I gots a feeling I’m gonna have to surpass on that.*

The Wakefield Doctrine is simple enough. Three characteristic worldviews, the individual’s lifelong efforts to cope (with their respective realities) result in what we here are calling their ‘personality type’, i.e. clarks (of the reality of the Outsider), scotts (those who thrive in the world of the Predator) and rogers (the majority of the people you will encounter today, that know life as a Herd Member). Three types. Pretty simple. We have descriptions of typical behavior exhibited by members of these three groups (videos even!) that can be memorized. That part is all pretty straightforward. The thing is, the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated, (yeah, I know…shit! he’s starting to talk funny), on the idea that these worldviews are real. as in real ity… and worse, in order to use the Wakefield Doctrine, to get the benefits that we offer, such as ‘knowing the other person better than they know themselves’? well, you need to put yourself inside the other person’s head.  or, as we say, ‘to see the world as the other person experiences it’. Right there!  that’s where you’ll find the ‘catch’ to this Doctrine thing.  We don’t say, ‘see the world as the other person sees it’, we say ‘…as they experience it’. And the reason for that wording is to bring home our point, that the world is a personal affair. That, even though we are both standing on a sidewalk in Singapore and both looking at the same restaurant down the street from Michelle’s house, the reality available to you and the reality available to me, might not be exactly the same. Hell, it might be barely the same.

ya know?

and,  ….and!  that’s not the hard part about the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-development! OK, it’s not the easy part, we lose most Readers simply because the intellectual flexibility, the enjoyment of new ideas just isn’t there.

No, the hard part of using the Doctrine is that we all exist, right now, in one of the three realities. The other two are available to us. But they are different realities.  Different.  as in,  not just that you like doing mathematics and watching Ken Burns documentaries… but in your world (rogers), there is such a thing as a right way and a wrong way. That does not exist in the world of clarks or the world of scotts (yeah, scotts living with  actual values of right and wrong…lol). Or different in the way of clarks, who live as a person apart from everyone and everything…not being shy, not being introvert, not being afraid to speak up …. apart from.  That’s the hard part of what is, if applied correctly, possibly the most effective tool of self-development anywhere to be found.

…but!  someone out there said,  “but! you said challenging,  not hard or difficult. I distinctly heard you say ‘challenging‘ ”  yes, yes I did. Trouble is, I’m out of time. Got to go to work. If you want to know what I meant when I said ‘challenging’ I guess you better join us tommorow evening on the Frid Vid   (plan on having trouble connecting on the first try… I’ll be on early and on the Facebook   ( ‘clark scottroger’)  hit me up if you are running into a problem.)  8pm EST

* a famous statement by the progenitor roger, actually the first noted/recorded instance of a rogerian expression. read about it here on the page for rogers (at the bottom of the page)