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

Before I get to this very quick, Cynthia’s Comments (which-almost-always-prompt-me-to-write-a-post), Post, a quick review:

the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world in one of three ways,

1. the world of the Outsider (clarks)
2. the reality of the Predator (scotts)
3. the life of the Herd Member (rogers)

…and, for the Doctrine, personality types are simply the label of the characteristic responses and strategies and all the things we learn in order to cope with the world, appropriate to the world we find ourselves in. Makes sense, right? You live in the reality of the Predator, betcha you don’t spend a lot of time mulling things over…. if you are living the life of the Herd Member, where all things are related, you know whatever it is you need to know (and if you don’t know it, it’s probably not necessary)… and clarks, well you know what it’s like out there.
Anyway, the point of this review is that while we all settle in and live in one of these three worldviews (our ‘predominant worldview’ aka our personality type), we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. In fact, some of us have a ‘secondary aspect’ thats a little more than ‘potential’. This explains why, sometimes people will come and learn the principles and immediately say, “hey, sometimes I’m one of the three, but then, at times, it seems I must be one of the others! What am I doing wrong?!” Absolutely nothing. That’s simply the presence of a secondary (or tertiary) aspect.

That said, you live in only one of the three worldviews. Another approach is to ask yourself the question, “how do I relate myself to the world around me? As would an Outsider or a Predator or a Herd Member? The answer will be the one in which the world makes the most consistent sense (when viewed through the perspective of each of the three worldviews).

Capiche?

Promised reprint:

This ‘theory of personality’ owes it’s existence to the fact that all clarks think and believe that there is an answer, that there is information to be found/understood/discovered that will make sense of the world as they (the clark) see it.

clarks believe that if they think enough they will understand why they are not a part of the world and can then become a part of the world, no longer different.

another … description of clarks would be:

curious, easily bored, interested in anything that poses a question, insatiable people-watcher, friendly when not feeling threaten, confident when discussing ideas, totally tropistic for any information, however useless and obscure that they (the clarks) believe will give them insight into how they should feel, aggressive when dealing with ideas, passive when dealing with real people, (except friends…who they value more than anything), fearful, un-afraid (not the contradiction it would appear to be), the hard workers you could ever under-pay and self-less to an extreme, egotistical beyond imagining and willing to do anything for a chance to be accepted, except be-themselves.

If you are a clark, you have by now come up with some (mental) construct to manipulate the knowledge that you have been acquiring since before you can remember; be it based on astrology or religion, philosophy or mythology, you have a system.

Try this:

clarks live inside their own heads because it’s all much better in there
clarks are the only (one of the three personality types) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else
clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant
clarks work very hard at whatever they do but, since they are so easily bored, do not do well at jobs that involve repetitive tasks
clarks are the creative one(s) of the three personality types
clarks share with others, to a fault
clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different
clarks maintain, at a very high cost, that ‘knowledge is power’
It can be said that clarks can believe anything and therefore believe in nothing. (If you know what that means, you are a clark).