Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
There was a time, in the course of this record, that I wrote a post a day. Each was as different as the previous as they were foreshadowing those yet to be written. This was due to the topic of all posts at this blog, the Wakefield Doctrine.
Originally a chance observation of an interaction between two people, it grew into the unique perspective on life, the world and the people that make it up, entirely by the process of discovery, as opposed creation. In other words, the underlying view of reality was already there, the very first piece of the puzzle was genuine enough to allow only related facts, insights, suppositions and conclusions to be added. While you might find it amusing to take twenty-six boxes of jigsaw puzzles and dump them in a pile, when you were done fitting each curvio-trapezoidal chunk of cardboard and photo paper together, you would have twenty-six pictures, not twenty-one or nineteen.
And so it is with the Wakefield Doctrine. Once you have a certain, small, number of pieces, you are able to (re)-create the entire thing. That is testament to both the Doctrine and the person doing the assembly. One can only go to together one way, the other can assemble the parts only if they have a certain view of things, reality, if you will.
While we’ve arrived at a point where it might be tempting to assume that everything that might be said about the Wakefield Doctrine has been said, we all know better than that. Well, lets amend that last and say those of us with either a predominant clarklike* worldview or a significant secondary clarklike aspect can relax, with this qualifying sentence.
It seems to be that a certain requirement for those who would enjoy this little alternate personality types theory, this being whatever the name for the quality in people that permits (nay, requires) more than one perspective on the world. Because that, when all is said and done, is what the Wakefield Doctrine has to offer, one more perspective on life.
And, serially, who out there doesn’t know that more is better than less when it comes to perspective.
Thats all we have time for, this Monday morning.
y’all come back now, heah?
* in the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, personality types are referred to as ‘predominant worldviews’. This is a reflection of the belief that all of us, everyone, lives in a reality that is to a certain degree, personal. (Were we, Reader and Doctrine, to be standing on a corner** we might surely be seeing the same thing but, more than likely, what we are experiencing are two different things.)
**sure, we can make that Winslow, Arizona…
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“(Were we, Reader and Doctrine, to be standing on a corner** we might surely be seeing the same thing but, more than likely, what we are experiencing are two different things.)”
Hey, who doesn’t like to begin at the end?! Your quote up there. At the crux of the Doctrine.
How we relate ourselves to the world (clark/outsider, scott/predator/ and roger/herd member which in turn determines how a thing/event/experience manifests in our “world” (world view).
Question: could my last sentence be inverted and mean the same thing?
Perhaps as, the world experienced is the expression of reality based on, grounded in, the individual worldview. There is a world of the Outsider. There is a reality of a Predator and there is a life in concert with being a Herd Member. What makes me a clark is that (for reason not yet understood) I found myself in that world (as opposed to the other two) when I was quite young. I demonstrate the qualities and characteristics of the clarklike personality because those (qualities and characteristics) are appropriate to the world (of the Outsider).
We are clarks, scotts and rogers because we grew up and developed out personalities in the realities of Outsiders, Predators and Herd Members.
I suspect that is not the question you asked, but what the hell, every reminder is useful
Absolutely!
Perspective is like being able to put the pieces of the puzzle together?
As i always think when Sweetie says, “Enough said,” it is never enough said. He always has more to say about whatever it is. And yes, there is always more to say.
Even psychologists agree that siblings raised in the same house are not raised by the same parents. They’ve said that for years, so it makes perfect sense that each of us perceives the world differently even when the same thing is happening to us.
The trick (or the contribution from the Doctrine) is the awareness of the fact that realities are personal and a tool to aide in understanding the other person… in other words, one more perspective.