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

This weekend’s Wakefield Doctrine call-in* was especially fun. In attendance: Denise, Cynthia and none other than (the Progenitor) roger.

As you would imagine, the topics were varied and diverse. They included:

• living at college in the 1970s and the 1990s (me and Cynthia respectively)
• the Wakefield Doctrine¹
• writing, in general and writing an idea for a time travel story
• it, courtesy of a dream involving friend of the Doctrine, Molly, The ‘hook’ of being awoken by the ringing of my cell phone (the aforementioned Molly calling to see what happened to me from the ‘previous evening’) and discovering that I was in my college dorm room in 1973. I could get calls from ‘the future’ but I was still in 1973 and, as we all know, cell phone batteries don’t last forever. (ed.note. “I’m still waiting for my skills to catch up to the idea. The plot is, like, amazing. But, as we all know, and was, in fact part of our discussion this Saturday past, ‘Ideas are easy, execution is the hard part’.
• the nature of the three predominant worldviews and the challenge of getting far enough into the reality of ‘the other two’ in order to better appreciate the differences
• …this appreciation being the foundation of the ultimate utility of our little personality theory, which is to develop all three aspects within ourselfs
• Doctrine branded clothing and such… the first thing we did, back in the before-time, was to have hats made (‘for your damn heads‘). This served two purposes: a) proudly display an affiliation with the greatest insight into personality and dealing with the world and the people who make it up and 2) to identify our predominate worldview (note in the photos, one of the three is stitched in red) then came tee shirts and the last item, (and personal favorite), a college sweatshirt.

Lets see some photation:

There are other examples, since this is a convenient, electronic blog, click on ‘THIS LINK’ and you can see examples of Doctrine clothing (and the people wearing it).

*  on the homepage…. upper right, is a phone number and basic instructions

1.  the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on personality, reality and the people who make up our lives. As a perspective, the Wakefield Doctrine is simply a tool, not an Answer. That being said, as a tool, it is useful, effective and a whole lot of fun.

The basics: we are, all of us, born with the capacity to experience the world in one of three characteristic ways. As an Outsider (clarks), a Predator (scotts) or a Herd Member (rogers). At an early age we ‘settle’ into one of these three ‘predominant worldviews’. We find ourselfs in the world of the Outsider, Predator or Herd Members and proceed to develop our personalities. Here the Doctrine diverts from the model of your everyday personality theories. Rather than fit you into a category on the basis of observed behavior and thereby assigning you a personality type, the Doctrine be sayin: Observe the other person (or yourself) which of the three worldviews is most…. congruent with the style of interaction?’ Is the person (or are you) ‘…Staying on the fringes, doing things way different, but out of the immediate spotlight?‘ ‘Does it look like that person (hey! are you) ‘…looking for a good time… impatiently watching for something to run away or charge you?’ or, how about, ‘Are they everywhere and giving off a friendly vibe and yet, not overly welcoming?’

That is how we do Sunday Supplement Personality Tests (Sunday Supplement Personality Tests motto: “Honey/Homey! Come here, you’ve got to take this test. It has you down to a ‘T‘”)

Enough for today.

Gonna try to write more on this topic in the coming days.

(Yes, everyone has one and only one predominant worldview. We do not lose the capacity to experience the world as ‘the other two’ but thats for a post on self-improving ourselfs.)