Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Only requirement to benefit from the application of the Wakefield Doctrine: be willing and able to allow that, Reality is, to a small but totally certain extent, personal.
So what are the things that you can use the Wakefield Doctrine for, in the course of your day today?
- (better) Understand the people in your life.
- ( better) Understand yourself
- (have a lot better chance of success to) Change the things about yourself that you’ve wanted to change, but have never managed to quite achieve.
- (pretty much, totally) Prevent other people from changing things about yourself that they want to change, but you suspect is not in your best interest.
- (in the way of your people) Have fun.
- (promise not to tell them, at least until you get more grounded in this here personality theory, but you will so) Know more about the people you encounter in the course of the day than you have any business knowing, maybe even, more than they know about themselves. cool, eh?
oh, yeah… there is, of course, a certain degree of reading and learning and, most of all, practice required to be a position to realize the above benefits. I will, however, guarantee them, (the benefits stated in easy-to-read-point-points* above). Remember that all the descriptions and examples of the three worldviews are simply clues and imagery to aid you in answering the essential Question the Wakefield Doctrine would have us ask:
‘how does that person relate themselves to the world around them’
…as does a(n):
- Outsider (clark) i.e. (for you), the world and all the people are ‘out there’, you know that only knowing will allow you to know that you are known to those you know as being a ‘real person’ (that being said, if you’re a clark, you’re totally fricken creative (not just reassemble the same old parts into a new-looking thing, but (the) bring into the world something that has never existed kind of creative), and you’re a great listener (clinically and certifiably tolerant… to the point of self-destructively so) and you’re funny (but only when you think (or don’t care if) anyone is listening) and you thinking in parentheseses
- Predator (scott) alive and not given to introspection, at least not the type of introspection that your clarklike friend does (and you do have a clarklike friend, because… well because you can’t figure them out!! most of the time they, (your clarklike friend), acts like prey (you know, rogers) and that’s ok, if not a little, well, boring, but every now and then, maybe during one of those times that you play a little too rough (hey, you got to have your fun too, we know! we know!) anyway, every now and then they rear up and knock you … ass-over-teacup** and you’re like, ‘Alright!! lol” ...that friend. In the meantime, you live your life and it unfolds… ’cause, even though you can’t be bothered wasting time thinking about it, you know that today is everything….
- Herd Member (roger) today is not just the only day (as it is for scotts), nor is it the day before the real day, (as it is for clarks), today, well today is perfect. Your only concern is to be able to live up to it. There are a million ways your day can go today and some are good and some not so good, but there is only one correct way. You know that the world and reality, (the things you know, the places you’ve been, well, everything but the people that you encounter), are knowable and quantifiable, given the effort on your part. It’s not that success is the only thing that matters today, what is important to you is that you not ‘fail improperly’ today.
that’s enough for today. come back tomorrow, or better yet, ask us questions in the comments.
*Friend of the Doctrine, Christine informs us that the term ‘bullet points’ is frowned upon in today’s phobic-philic culture
**What an archaically amusing expression!
About clarkscottroger
Good reading for the new reader of the Doctrine. Oh, Clark phobic-phillic? I like the bullets.
maybe not as directly philic as I might seem to imply, but fear is a primary defining characteristic of clarks sad to say (note: I use the word fear, I am not saying that clarks are afraid of anything)
how about “Ballistic point,” or “projectile point” , or “cap point”, or … no huh… how about “point,” or “that little black dot thingy.” Really, what else are those called? There is another name that I just can’t think of right?
… what’s in a word. I like the bullet point that’s what they were originally called! but nowadays the newthink lexicon would have it be something else.
Really? Bullet points? Huh. Tucker’s anti-fever meds are suppositories. We call them butt bullets. That seemed relevant.
lol… makes sense to me.*
* not applicable in the case of real, discerning or otherwise (fairly) mature people reading this exchange
It’s a continual process, this learning how people relate themselves to the world. I’ve learned much but I’ve got a ways before I think in Doctrine!
I enjoy conversing with people (I don’t know well) and hearing them say things to me like “yeah, that’s exactly what he/she is like” or “totally, you nailed that one” or “we are so alike!” (when in fact we most likely aren’t. It’s just that I know “what” they are (clark, scott or roger). It gives me an upper hand and helps me better relate to them and their personal reality :)
My favorite workplace accomplishment: the ability to tailor my e-mails based on the personal reality of the recipient. The advantages are huge. I can be confident they (e-mails) are clear, being interpreted properly or, in the case of rogers, not misinterpreted!! Tell me that’s not cool!