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

Yes, hanging the wall in my office. Gift from zoe.

What the heck is it with clarks and Time?

No, not in the sense of our ability to socialize (“Hey! clark, its a party, lighten up and have a good…”)

It is not even, the sense of appropriateness  (“I’d hardly be one to suggest it, but given how everyone else feels about the situation, this is not the…”)

I mean, the ability or capability, to keep track of (the passage of) Time.

New Readers: one thing before we start. a) the Wakefield Doctrine holds that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience our lives from one of three characteristic perspectives:

1. as an Outsider(clark) which is a reality poetically described as ‘looking on from apart, to see the world as interconnected and spend a lifetime searching for a common point’.
2. as would a Predator(scott) for whom the world is a live/death struggle characterized by a here and now where the rewards are as fleeting as the threats, and the only way to live is dynamically and spontaneously.
3. Herd Member(roger) really, life is quite simple and uncomplicated, as it comes with a set of rules and instructions (and the distinction is lost only on the other two), emotion is the landscape and the Herd is the wind that never ends, lending a sense of togetherness and an awareness of the Right Way.

…and at a certain point in our early life we settle into one and only one of these, which we refer to as our predominant worldviews. What others call a personality type, is merely our best effort, as tiny babies who would drive cars and raise families, to develop strategies to make the best of the world we find ourselves in. But! We never completely lose the ability to perceive the world as do ‘the other two, the ways of experiencing the world that were not selected’. That’s why sometimes, despite knowing our predominant worldview, we’re tempted to say, “Hey! Thats like one of those… that’s not like me at all.” Not to worry. Those are secondary (and tertiary) aspects. You are still living in the same reality you started out in. You’ve just been given a glimpse of the potential for self-improving yourself that the Wakefield Doctrine offers.

and 2) we have something called, ‘the Everything Rule’ which states (and, if you do your reading, we won’t have to explain) “Everyone does everything at one time or another.”

… almost out of Time!

(ha ol)

Example: when I go out to the woods to work and, thereby get some exercise. I often set a timer on my phone. At the end of the period, it plays very catchy, (in a repetitive sort of way), music. More often than not, despite never taking out my phone to check the time remaining, I will stop just before the alarm sounds.

If you were to say, “Tell me when twenty-three minutes have elapsed” or “Wake me up at 6:59” I will. Because I can. Without the use of a timepiece.

Just thought I’d mention it. Seems to be a clarklike talent*.

* full lol …. of course it would be. Seeing how, “I will read the instructions and assemble this 2,398 piece mantle clock. It will work and keep perfect time.” or “Hey! That one, at the end of the buffet line? Kinda cute!…Gimme five minutes. Nah, don’t wait up.”  were already assigned to ‘the other two’.