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

And so we begin the Great and Astounding 30 Day Two Posts per……  (ha, ha.  a little blogging, ‘more-is-more’, humor to start us off this month).

Here’s the thing:

I still need the Wakefield Doctrine to be so clearly and compellingly presented, that anyone can be read, understood and use/enjoy it. For that matter, if the Wakefield Doctrine were read to you, you should understand the principles and premise immediately, get a good feel for the characteristics of the three worldviews and  start seeing the Outsiders, Predators and Herd Members in your own life. As a goal, isn’t  this is reasonable? Of course, there is a secret qualifier to this ambition. I need everyone to read, understand and use/enjoy our little personality theory.

So, whats with the conflicted and angsty-sounding reflection?

lol, that’s just me being a clark.
You want to know what, if I were given the chance to change just one thing for all clarks in the world, clarks of all ages and genders and walks of life and such,  that would be?  …the need for validation from the world that we believe is around us.  And I would too!  change it for all clarks, just like that, if someone would tell me how….( lol  yeah,  the  (something-latiny) -ey about this statement is not lost on me. Maybe there’s hope for me yet. Right?)

You know, this 30 Day Challenge actually did produce at least one unexpected insight:

“…at the point that you understand the Wakefield Doctrine well enough to correctly infer your own predominate worldview, you will realize that being aware, (of your predominate worldview), diminishes some of the un-self-conscious spontaneity and fun, the simple joy and certain solace, the confidence and effectiveness that you once possessed, in how you related yourself to the world (and the people) around you.” (…this from the Post on Monday that closed out the 30 Day Challenge, which also saw a good question asked by Christine, a very cool Comment left by Cyndi and an effective, heartfelt, lombardiastic (yet valued) suggestion from zoe )

 So, lets see what where this leads us, shall we? Tempus fugits yo

1) ‘reality relativism’ ?  that’s the concept that’s… well, maybe it’s two concepts (though, I would love to find out it’s really three concepts!   reality relativism is:

1. the fact that as change and development occurs, the prior history of that person gets adjusted for the people around them (and even for the person in question, but that’s a little more metaphysics than we have time for this morning), the result is, the appreciation of how much a person has changed is inversely proportional to how long the observer has know the person. “Hey guys! I’ve been using the Wakefield Doctrine on myself and it’s really changed me! It can work for you too!”  “Yeah, sure. You’ve got that gift for gab and you’re comfortable standing up in front of strangers and talking. I’m almost too shy to leave a Comment. I can’t identify with you”    (Watch any self-improvement speaker, seminar or guy-on-stage-with-a-button-front-sweater and the first thing they will do is get the audience to believe that he is as big a loser as they are (or, half the audience, seeing how 50% have been dragged to it by a spouse).)
2. in my world I’m an Outsider. The forces within me (the good and the incredibly toxic/destructive) are predicated on a universe of one. Me. Against a backdrop of real people in a real world.With the Wakefield Doctrine that becomes less effective a constraint. there are scotts out there who have sufficient secondary clarklike aspects that they are able to learn and enjoy the Doctrine… they have my sympathy. Predators flourish in like, in part, on their focus. They see the prey (or the dominant predator) and that is all that exists… unless they have ‘an inner clark’ wondering if they’re all that hungry or maybe ‘this ranking thing, doesn’t establishing rank once take care of it once and for all…why start that again?  rogers… well they probably fare best of all three. they say that rogers live at the center of a perfect world…. (which is true) and they (also) say,  if a roger doesn’t already know it, then that thing doesn’t exist…. but what really gives us an insight in this instance is the saying, ‘you can’t lead a roger to water, but you can trick them into believing that they had forgotten it up til now, but since they’re thirsty and standing next to some water, it’s alright to drink it….because it’s really been there all along…
3. …working on it