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

Tomorrow is Thursday, which means a Guest Writer of a Guest Post on Guest Post Thursday’s Guest Post,  and…and! we have a scott coming to visit! Always fun. (aggravating and exhausting on occasion and, if the true be known, hard to keep up with often and if it weren’t for the ‘payoff’, none of us clarks would even consider trying… but that’s for another Post).
So be sure to tune in… in fact, let’s get all ‘Girl Scout cookie’ on tomorrow… (?!?) yeah,  find 3 people and get them to read and comment on tomorrow’s Post. (just so you don’t forget where you’re getting this idea),  of the three:

• 1 has to be a person who has never read a blog (it is allowable to print the post, if that’s even possible) and
• 1 has to be someone who reads blogs, but has never been to the Wakefield Doctrine,
• 1 has to be someone who has read the Doctrine blog, but ‘doesn’t have time for that crap!’ and
• the last person can be anyone who you are willing to bet will find it fascinating.*

The discussion this week has been very enjoyable and helpful and I have gained additional insight into the Wakefield Doctrine. (ed. note: you can expect the Wakefield Doctrine to provide you with an additional insight, show you something about the other person you hadn’t realized before, see a part of yourself in a different light (or, at very least from a slightly different perspective) and enjoy the process (of all this insight stuff**) I did want to add one thing to our discussion of the Rule of ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’:

…you know how we said that it’s not that clarks do things differently from scotts, but that things manifest differently for clarks (as they do for scotts and rogers). The list of examples is as long and as varied as you would care to make it. Occupations, avocations, interests and hobbies, sex symbols and revered icons, ambition and love, hate and reverence, wanting to look good and not caring how you appear….all of these ‘things’ are common to all of us (clarks and scotts and rogers) and all of these things ‘manifest’ differently in each of the three worldviews. The most important thing you can get from this Rule is that, for each of us, in our respective worldviews, these things are reality.
This might be one of the 3 most difficult concepts in the Wakefield Doctrine to understand. The world around you is real. The ‘common world’ that we all share (that one is easy) and the personal reality that you er…personally experience is real.  a clark is an Outsider and the scott, with their hair-trigger emotions, are experiencing the world where that is the best approach to life… after all, predators do not thrive and survive by being laid-back  and the roger who insists that there is a Right Way  and (other ways, not nearly as good as)… the world is quantifiable for them.

This understanding/appreciation will make your life so much more….  yours   and so much less…. forced by others.  and all you have to do is accept that there are three characteristic personal realities (worldviews) and if you know the one you live in and you identify the ones that the people around you live in, things will be better.

* astute Readers will immediately realize:

1. that the requirements will result in at very least, one of each of the three personality types
2. that they will have to write these directions down, as they are inexplicably difficult to follow

** yes, the Doctrine does provide insight and all, but that doesn’t mean that it’s all serious and solemn and learned and such, it’s fun to watch the scott at work perk up when a new person walks into the room, I mean, if they had a tail that wagged and ears the could stand up it wouldn’t be more fun… and the rogers, while they can be ….difficult, to know them is to be protected from their specialized form of spontaneous, heart-felt communication, aka ‘lashing-out’  and clarks!… you remember as a kid, there used to be a cartoon-like puzzle in the Sunday paper, usually the comics section, where there was a drawing and you were supposed to find the hidden: pilgrims….pirates…parrots…scary animals? and how you could be staring and staring and just when you were about to give up in disgust, suddenly a figure would appear out of the background…and then another and another??  (if you are not a clark), then the same kind of fun awaits you when you decide that you know enough about the characteristics of the worldview of the Outsider(clarks)…  they’re frickin everywhere!! (who do you think does the boring-yet-high-risk-to-career-path-yet-deemed-necessary-by-the-rogerian-middle-manager??