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

Being a clark (and therefore reasonable, time-proven approaches to exercise falling on totally deaf ears) lets get to the Question of the Day:

Do we wake up each morning a totally new person with a set of memories to allow for seemingly natural living?

or

Are we the same person we have always been, despite the fact that we seem to forget some things that we deem important and remember (far too many) things that are trivial, inconsequential in light of the day before us?

Let us know your thoughts.

(A clear sign of being out-of-practice in post-writing when, just a moment ago, I hit ‘Publish’ rather than ‘Preview’)

New Readers?

the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) is a perspective on life, the world and the people who make it up. We are all born with the potential to experience the world from one of three perspectives:

1. as an Outsider (clarks those who see the world as being ‘out there/apart from’, they are creative and bold with a calculated helpless air about them. funny as hell, great friends, hopeless romantics)
2. a Predator (scotts the life of the party, the roaring beast (saving themselves for the pack), they are those who have no time to waste on the past and are too busy in the present to be concerned with the future.)
3. a Herd Member (rogers those who provide the world with stability and predictability, convenience and persecution. without these people: planes would fall from the air, ships would sink (’cause they’re fricken made of steel for cryin out loud) and two plus two always equals four… and (without which the world would lack: fire departments, tax law and the Salem Witch Trials)

At a very early age we settle into one (and only one) for these three. We proceed to grow and learn about life and the people and things and all…as they are manifested in the reality of the above three worldviews.

We never lose the potential to experience the world (and the things and the people in it) from the perspective of the ‘other two’. That being said, contrary to the more mainstream (and therefore rogerian (and therefore kinda unimaginative)) approaches to personalty types in which a person is examined and perhaps asked to take a multiple choice test, the results of which are tabulated, analyzed and dramatized, the Wakefield Doctrine says:

‘Consider how the other person (or yourself) is (are) relating to the world and the people and the situation at hand. Which is the most consistent description of that relationship? Is the person remaining at a distance, vague and noncommittal, clearly with an eye on the exit (or the bathroom)? Might the person you are watching (or the reflection in the nearby mirror) seem at home anywhere there is activity, motion, change, threat and the promise of triumph? (Since you’re asking)…consider the person (or yourself, even though last in this series, you haven’t been forgotten)…do they seem to be at home, confident in the solidity of the earth beneath their feet, the sky above their heads or the bond they have with most of the world?’

Answer those questions and you have the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool to self-improve yourself.

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