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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on behavior. The Wakefield Doctrine is a context, which when properly employed, makes available an increased understanding of the people in our lives. The Wakefield Doctrine allows us to know more about a person that you really would expect to gain, given that you learned about it, (the Doctrine, not the person), on a blog that does not appear to have any endorsements, any learned and credentialed, (especially credentialed), people attesting to it’s validity, efficacy or reliability.

So, what is a person to do? Well, to begin with you’re here….reading. At least you’re reading this Post, possibly other Posts, but definitely this Post. You’re intrigued, amused, interested, curious and are willing to stay a little longer. Fine. I’ll try to make it worth your while…

I normally would present the principles, the workings, if you would, of the Wakefield Doctrine and hope that the attractiveness of the facts would serve to persuade you to do the only thing that’s necessary to enjoy a benefit from this ‘personality theory’, and that thing is, ‘to allow for it to be true’. Of course, I haven’t, as of yet, presented anything in the way of information about this, ‘theory of clarks, scotts and rogers‘. Nevertheless, your investment of time and/or consideration remains the critical element. Why am I making this point?  No reason. Just thought that maybe acknowledging that there is a price, an investment necessary, might be a good way to start.  (I’m way too fond of Latin phrases, the more semi-obscure, the better, and in this case, what comes to mind is ‘sine qua non’, which, I choose to believe means: ‘without which not’. I’ll leave you, the Reader, to decide which of the two questions implicit in the previous sentence to be the more interesting.)

Lets say that we all live, to a certain extent, in what is best referred to as a ‘personal reality’. And, lets also say, that there are three characteristic styles of relating to the world )i.e. these personal realities). And, finally, lets allow that an understanding/appreciation of ‘how a person relates themselves to the world around them’, places us in a better position to know how, (and why), a person acts and reacts as they do, to the myriad of decisions and obstacles and problems and opportunity that make up our days. We call the characteristic way of relating to the world of a person,  their dominant worldview. There are three of them:

1. the reality of the Outsider (clarks)      clarks think  (somewhere there is knowledge or information that will allow them to feel like a real person)
2. the world of the Predator (scotts)         scotts act  ( ‘I scream therefore I am‘)
3. the life of the Herd Member (rogers)  rogers feel  (‘perfection is not a way to be, it is a feeling to share‘)

know each of these inside and out and you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

Guaranteed.

Any Questions?

Q. that subtitle?  it sounds familiar
A. It’s from the lyrics to the utterly classic Delta Blues songs, ‘Dust My Broom’  by Robert Johnson