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

Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi, has, in keeping with a long, non-deliberate tradition* become our current Meletus**.

So, last week in follow-up to Tuesday’s Post, Mimi said, in a comment, she said:

Leaving me to wonder (of course!) whether, because we can still choose to experience the world as “the other two” do, would the perfect personality blend be someone who chooses to use each 1/3 of the time? Of course not, but i think too much, naturally.

Good question.

I will say, in preface, there are still language issues in play, when it comes to describing and understanding the notion of predominant worldviews.

We know there are three predominant worldviews, those of:

1. clarks (the Outsider) those who live to learn new facts, acquire unfamiliar information and, in general, spend most of their waking hours (and sleeping dreams, (like there’s a huge difference for these guys, lol)), asking questions. Important to note, by virtue of being Outsiders, most of the questions are asked silently, however, the drive to discover the answers is unrelenting. Mostly manifested as reading and listening to everything that is said, sung, pronounced or otherwise manifested in their vicinity.
2. scotts (the Predator) these are the people who walk up to the abandoned package in the bus station and say, “Hey! Someone left me a present! Lets see what they got me.” As a people, they are naturally inquisitive, emphasis on the ‘natural’. They have virtually no need for reason, explanation, rationale or justification. If there is something that is all, in your face, unknown, scotts are the ones to walk up and say, “So what’s the deal?”
3. rogers (the Herd Members) if discovery is made and new knowledge is uncovered, then someone had better take it’s measurements so as to know what shelf or section of shelf is best suited for storing it. Information, both novel, (‘label it and store it!’), and consistent with other similar facts, figures and measures, is the mortar for the walls to be built and reinforced. The only good fact is the tried and true fact.

Predominant worldviews are a characterization of (a person’s) personal reality. Reality is personal. Not, ‘Look! In my world, I can turn my tongue inside out.‘ or ‘Us Herd Members know everyone in the world!’ (well, that’s actually true, in a rogerian sense), or even, ‘If my reality is personal I can do anything I want… lets get this baby up to a hundred and five and I’ll tell you my idea.‘ The thing of it is, there is a half-a-millimeter layer between me and the world around me. My experience of the world has to cross that teeny, tiny gap.

Here, an example from a common Doctrine scenario, and then back to Mimi’s question.

Imagine you and your scottian friend, along with one of your rogerian companions are standing on the sidewalk, across from a popular local restaurant. It’s the height of the noon rush hour. There’s a line of people out the door and up the sidewalk. Each of you ‘see’ something different. (New Reader? Consider this your first assignment: go read up on clarks, scotts and rogers; come back and tell us what you believe they see.) Or, a more useful phrasing: you and your friends are experiencing the sight of a crowded restaurant in a manner that is distinctly and characteristically, different.

The ideal personality, through means and methods not yet fully-understood, is a combination of the good qualities of each of the three hungry people standing on the less crowded side of the street, without the less-desirable qualities of the three impatient people waiting for lunch.

The area of understanding that is the focus of most our attention and is, as Mimi implies, the desired outcome of full utilization and realization of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, is how to bring our secondary and tertiary aspects into a working and balanced partnership with our predominant worldview.

(ed. note: Just re-read Mimi comment. lol yes, while doing the final edit. Where she be sayin’ ‘we can still choose to…’  and, to get all Strafford-on-Avon on you guys ‘ay, there’s the rub‘.¹)

Should be cool when we get there.

* its been our good fortune here, at the only personality theory that is both useful and fun, to always have at least one person who asks the questions that need asking. To paraphrase the old saying, “When the Teacher falters, the Student in the back of the room insists on one more clarification.”

** the guy who did most of the questioning of ‘So Crates’.***

*** yes, I did, in fact, enjoy the movie… more than I should’ve

1. free (future) Doc-tee to any Reader who can express the nature, (and for extra credit, the role it serves), of this peculiarly clarklike characteristic this erudite aside.

here is what is, possibly, the only Kiss song I might use here at the Doctrine: