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

Remember in school, in the review period before the big exam, there would come a moment when the Teacher would actually relax and act like a regular person? Everyone would be all, “is …. going to be on the exam”? or “..should I of memorized the periodic table!!?”  or even  “…only have a No 3 pencil will that keep my answers from being recognized?”  and in a lull, someone would ask a question like, “so when you went to school did they….” and the teacher would hesitate (still in teacher mode) but then come around and sit on the front of their desk/or even the lab bench and answer like they were anywhere else but in a classroom?  the odd thing, the one who asked the question would, more than likely, be a clark.

Speaking of interesting…

the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, to help those so inclined, to better understand the people in their lives. the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective that, directed inwards or outwards, allows us to see the things we do in a slightly different light and, by doing that, lets us gain an additional insight into why people act and say and think and feel the way that they do. the Wakefield Doctrine, used correctly, will cut down on the number of times you find yourself saying: “now why on earth would they go and say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better than that!”

hey! you all know the difference between what each of the three worldviews represent in the use of the Wakefield Doctrine and what they may mean to us as individuals, right? We talk about scotts and clarks and rogers and it’s only natural that we are thinking about a person: we know, have been married to for 32 years, work for, got into a fight in the 3rd grade, went to boarding school with, lost our virginity to, got divorced from, and sometimes still dream about, right? That’s part of the cool thing about the Doctrine!* The way we can see the people in our lives through this lens.

But the three worldviews also represent broader and less personal aspects of life. The spirit of the Explorer opening new lands can be seen as a manifestation of the scottian aspect. The discovery of radically new insights that eventually become improvements to life, shows us the clarklike capacity to see what has never been, the civility of civilization, rules to protect as well as rules that restrain, is an example of the human experience at it’s most rogerian. The Wakefield Doctrine, it’s three worldviews, can be seen as manifesting in all aspects of life and human history and sociological forces and inner drives and politics and fads and fashions and pretty much anything you might care to apply it to. This is a clunky way of saying that, in principle, there are no good worldviews and no bad worldviews. None is inferior to, nor superior to any of the others. Collectively they account for all that we experience.

Just thought I would remind us that, we all have the potential of all three within, we all have the capacity to appreciate the world from the perspective of any of ‘the other two’ (other than) our predominate worldview. Totally difficult to do this, we are only beginning to scratch the surface of the use of the Doctrine as a way to self improve ourselves, but it is all there…contained among the three worldviews.

*Warning!! Warning!! New Readers!! there’s still time!! Unless you are prepared to see the clarks and the scotts and the rogers in your own, personal, private lives, you might want to put down the Doctrine. The simple fact is, once you understand this thing, the people around you will totally start acting like the three personality types so much, that you will find yourself thinking, ‘what the hell! they’re messin with me…they already learned this Doctrine thing’.  and the worst part is, you may not be able to stop seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers!…