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

So I was saying, just the other day, I said, ‘you know, the hardest thing about trying to write the Wakefield Doctrine book is that, despite the fact that it, (the Doctrine), can be applied to unlimited life situations (for insight or laughter-based purposes), when I get to a section where I need to say, ‘for example, in this common life situation, one might apply the Doctrine as follows’  I draw a total blank!’.  The other person laughed and said, ‘hey! sucks to be you!’  In any event, I had two experiences this weekend that I would like to offer as examples of the Wakefield Doctrine proving itself useful.

Situation 1: Maps, Directions and clarks

Part of my work involves working with another clark. (Another) part of my work involves inspecting properties. This weekend I needed to ‘cover’ the inspections that normally, my associate clark would do. There were 5 houses in a nearby city. I had the list and was beginning to check the google map (for best route) and my associate said, ‘here start with this property and then….’ and proceeded to give me directions…

Wakefield Doctrine Principle: clarks are good at couple of things: a) having a sense of direction 2) visualizing

… so, not only was I not needing directions, I was enjoying the prospect of mapping out the perfect route*. However,  I was pressed for time and left with the suggested sequence of houses on a piece of paper. (I should stop at this point and remind the Reader that clarks sometimes think that they are in sole possession of ‘the correct answer’ and, if someone else were to offer an alternative, well, by definition, it couldn’t be ‘the correct answer’ now could it?) This weekend I got myself reacting that way and, remembering my Wakefield Doctrine Principles,  thought, “well, he is a clark, so his route should be the same as I would have come up with”. And so, I followed his route and found my self both appreciating and approving of the choices (mostly in the sequence of the path)…. I could see that there was only one best route and he had picked it, pretty much, exactly as I would have. Like worldviews result in like decisions.

Situation 2: ”dodging bullets’

So, this weekend,  I had a certain task, I missed a step and there was about to be a situation where things might get very, very ugly. The moment came and, as it turned out, everything would be alright. As I left the room, I thought, “well Clark, you’ve dodged another bullet” and the second thing ( I thought)  was, “so what does the Wakefield Doctrine have to offer?”

Wakefield Doctrine Principle: the ‘everything Rule’ states that it is not that there are clarklike things that happen or scottian jobs or, even, rogerian interests and hobbies** rather than try to discern whether something is exclusively of one (of the three worldviews), (it isn’t),  we should focus on how a thing (or a job or an interest or hobby) manifests in the worldview of the other person. Take an easy example: upcoming event during which you are required to speak before an audience. It is not that one of the three might be better or worse at this, it is each of the three personality types experience this ‘speaking before an audience’ as a different thing. That is what we mean by ‘manifest’. Remember, one of the goals of applying the Principles of the Wakefield Doctrine is to be in a position to ‘see the world as the other person is experiencing it’.

So I thought, ‘well situations and circumstances like this are not that un-common and surely down through the ages clarks and scotts and rogers have survived this type of live/die, on/off, win/lose, lady/tiger life events, I wonder how ‘the other two’ would experience ‘dodging another bullet‘”

1. clarks:  ‘Well, I guess I successfully dodged a bullet, this time’
2. scotts: ‘I dodged that one!! Who wants to take another shot?!!! come on!!! it’s fun!!!’
3. rogers: ‘Who the hell is shooting at me and why would they want to?’

Musical humor:

* ‘the perfect route’ is one that there is no wasted  driving, one path naturally leading to the next, without any, god forbid, doubling back… the mark of a poor route, indeed!

** there are, but that’s not what we’re talking about here