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

(‘…well, because there’s a clark and a scott and (such) a roger in this movie!’)

…. as mentioned in yesterday’s Post

(…the other thing to come out of this weekend was a re-appreciation of), ‘the everything Rule’. This is, of course, the Rule that states:  ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’.

Just what the hell does this Rule say and why do we insist it is critical to the use and appreciation of this here Doctrine here?  As the books on writing are always saying, ‘show, don’t tell’ …(in yesterday’s Post’s Comments, Lizzi provided an illustration of science and the three personality types:

clarks – get the mad new ideas and create ways around things
rogers – ensure best lab practice and policies and measurability and reliability
scotts – sell the ideas to others

which came from Joe (her rogerian husband)….   well done! joe!                              … now, I read that I immediately thought, ” ‘scientists!’  what about the ‘real’ scientists throughout history…who was who?”  coming as no surprise to everyone,  I dashed off a list:

Madame Curie- clark (this
Isaac Newton – roger (‘how can you do this to me?! that hurt!)
Leonardo da Vinci – clark
Albert Einstein – roger
Alfred Noble – scott (hey!! come ‘ere!! pull my finger!)

soon thereafter we heard from Cyndi:

…I love Madame Curie – her story is fascinating. She was a clark but had such singular focus. If only I should be so lucky. :P
Einstein was a roger?!? How the hell, so? I always thought he was so stuck in his own head he didn’t even comb his hair.
Newton? A roger?
And Alfred Noble – of the Noble gases? A scott? Actually, periodic-table-speaking-wise, I could see it. The noble gases like Helium are perfectly in control with their electron configurations. <– I just wanted to be asinine and pretend like I know what the hell I’m talking about. ;)

which added to the fun….  (“…no, Cyndi  if you had her focus, you’d be buried in a lead-lined coffin somewhere in the Pyrex Mountains!”)

and then, I’m** all:

sure Einstein was all absent-mindy but he is reported to have said, ‘god doesn’t play dice with the universe’ and he liked to play the violin and (less reliably reported) he got really pissed off when Heisenberg started suggesting that maybe everything was not quantifiable… (from a Review by Publishers Weekly cited by amazon.com in their book selling section:

“…As Lindley so well explains it, the concept of uncertainty shook the philosophical underpinnings of science. It was Heisenberg’s work that, to a great extent, kept Einstein from accepting quantum mechanics as a full explanation for physical reality. Similarly, it was the Uncertainty Principle that demonstrated the limits of scientific investigation: if Heisenberg is correct there are some aspects of the physical universe that are to remain beyond the reach of scientists.“)

So what does this have to do with the ‘everything Rule’?

simply this:  despite the words ‘everyone does everything‘  the Wakefield Doctrine Rule/Guide known as the ‘everything Rule’ but actually states: ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’  is not about the fact that people share qualities and interests, strengths and weaknesses, passion and ennui. They do/ we all do! This because,  even though we all live our lives in one (of the three) worldviews, we all retain the potential of ‘the other two‘ worldviews).  (Whenever we hear from a Reader saying, ‘I’m pretty sure that I’ve identified my predominate worldview as a clark, but sometimes I totally act like a scott. What am I doing wrong?‘ the correct response is, ‘absolutely nothing! you are simply witnessing your secondary aspect exerting itself, no doubt prompted by some threat or excitement’.)  But the commonality between all three personality types is not what the ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’ Rule is about.

It is about: we all experience life, our jobs, reality, the family at dinner, our boss on a bad day, the girl we really hope likes us, the guy who doesn’t seem to care if we know he is unfaithful, the hospital we go to when we fall out of a tree and cry until we laugh and the hospital we go to when we give birth and laugh until we cry and the hospital we are taken to and we’re quiet because we know we will never leave…. we share these experiences, we do all of these.  the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the idea that there are three versions/editions/manifestations of this common world/these common experiences: the world of the Outsider(clarks) and the life of the Predator(scotts) and the reality of the Herd Member(rogers) and each and everything (in our lives) is manifested according to our worldview.

so pick a thing! anything!  occupations  interests  qualities hopes and fears …everything that makes up our lives manifests in a slightly (or not so slightly) different way for each of the three personality types.

The key to the value of the ‘everything’ Rule, lies in the words we use to frame the question.  Rather than say, ‘I wonder what stage fright is like for a clark (or a scott) or a roger?’… say, instead:

“…stage fright is very common, I wonder how it manifests in the world of the Outsider (clarks) or for scotts (those who develop in the reality of the Predator) or even what it is for rogers”

I will now ask for some Reader participation. Suggest a ‘thing’ and we will, together as a group, look at how it is manifested.

stage fright:

1. clarks: unpleasant experience, made understandable by knowing that everyone experiences it, made tolerable by talking about it (prior to performance)…the pressure, the force it manifests is focused on judgement… of (what they are about to do) by (everyone) and reflecting on the totality of the clark’s life
2. scotts: (from an actual scott) it’s the spice it’s the accentuation of the thrill… not necessarily pleasant, but a an accepted part of the process
3. rogers: a prompt… a reminder of the value of practice and therefore an affirmation (of the life properly lead)… one roger I knew would get all serious and OCDish on the day of a performance …treating all around him as an annoyance and/or a threat…after the performance totally relaxed, if not playful… practice pays off

anyone else?

* ‘that’ being forcing a block quote into the Title  ha ha

** when, that is, I’m not cutting up, in the back of the metaphorical classroom, with zoe and Jean… lol