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

Plenty of topics from the weekend to discuss. Everything from: Best Practices to determine a person’s predominant worldview (aka personality type), the role of secondary and tertiary aspects, to the question of seemingly multiple types. These are gratefully drawn from comments and observations from Pat and Mimi  in comments and, in our Saturday Night Call-in, Denise and Cynthia.

Before we get started, lets crank up the wayback* and see what we might have already written on these (and other) topics.

So, I’m here at the keyboard, feeling good about remembering my recent resolution to write more Doctrine posts, and the thought arrives, all paper-lunch-bag-frantic-bell-tolling as the yellow school bus, still half a suburban block in the distance, swallows it’s last passenger, and I think to myself, I think, ‘Hey, lets jump-start the post with a reprint, that always works‘.

In this weekend’s TToT, I thought to clever-up and devise a method to produce truly representative Grat Items** so I went and found a random time generator (‘Yeah, I wish***’). That experiment did not work, but the idea came to me this morning, ‘How about trying it with dates?” (Full Disclosure: up until now, when we’re in the mood for a reprint, our first strategy is to go back and find the same date, different year. Surprisingly (lol, ok, stop laughing, clarks) it doesn’t always work, all that well.)

In any event, I got me a random date generator and it produced three dates between January 2009 and October Now, 2020. The first two (12/22/2011 and 09/13/2019) did not yield a post, nothing written on that date. The third time was the charm.

So, from the Wakefield Doctrine on 10/03/2012 we present:

Wednesday Morning: (“…when I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide”) the Wakefield Doctrine 3 ways of relating to the world

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( a personality theory that gives life to the adage, ‘first walk a mile in their moccasins’ )

Me?  …” oh, not half-bad”… “well, you know, a little of this and a little of that”…”six of one, a half dozen of the other”… “fair-to-middlin”

Wednesday: the end of the first half, the beginning of the second half of the week, and therein lies our perspective for Today’s Post!
As we all know, the Wakefield Doctrine is all about inferring the ‘nature’ of the personal reality (worldview) of a person. We see a girl walking down a city street at lunch hour and (from a distance) we see: a tailored business suit, fashionably understated eyeglasses, LV handbag… but! when the distance between you decreases and she passes you by,  you notice a streak of purple in her hair, a silver and black bracelet with spikes and the unmistakable sound of Michael Schenker’s guitar leaking from her ear buds. …yes, she a most likely a clark! and her life is an open book. That’s why the Wakefield Doctrine is as useful as it is!

Wednesday? No, we have not forgotten about ‘whose day is Wednesday?’ it is important to remember that there are new people reading this blog every day and seeing how they come to these Posts first, it is incumbent upon us to try to help them get up to speed on this thing of ours… speaking of which… a lot of Readers are coming to us from ‘the Facebook’ these days so we need you to go there and ‘LIKE’ the Wakefield Doctrine page that we have there. So click on the following link:  ‘God yes! I truly ‘LIKE’ the Wakefield Doctrine and I might even someday work up the guts to write a Comment…just not today!’

(What do you mean almost out of time?!? 300 words already?!? damn!  no, totally critical to the narrative arc of this here story here… yeah, the video had better be great… ok to the point)

Screw this,  hey!  You people (not counting most of the DownSprings like DS#1 and Ms AKH and Molly ) have had a free ride for long enough… lets see you give something back for a change! You read these Posts and you listen to the videos and you scratch your heads while trying to figure out the reason for some of the photos… well here’s the thing. You need to offer your opinion of who’s ‘Day’ is Wednesday. (?…alright,  for the benefit of S. who is almost ready to write a Comment, a little help with deciding how to Vote)

Wednesday is for clark:

• a day to hope that something un-expected, (but good!) will happen to make up for the first half
• the end of the first part of the week, and therefore a success
• a very good day as the memory of the last weekend has faded enough for the expectations of the coming weekend to start to show

Wednesday is for a scott:

• another day
• if there have been no Warrants served by now, chances are there won’t be
• those frickin rogerian bosses are getting distracted and off the constant harping about doing better work

Wednesday is for a roger:

• another day to work and to learn and excel against the backdrop of those losers
• a new opportunity to show the Professor, the Supervisor, the Owner how much better you can do the job (than those others)
• a day to hope for a Quiz, ask for a Date, make fun of a geek or keep a secret from the spouse…what a Day of Promise!

Thats all ya get!  So Write a Comment and vote for which of the 3 personality types gets the most out of Wednesday!

So, as we can see, the Everything Rule was anticipated back then, in the early days of the Doctrine.

Refresher: ‘the Everything Rule’ states: “Everyone does everything, at one time or another.”

In a nutshell: all three worldviews are of common, there is nothing in the way of a job, hobby, occupation, avocation, predilection, inspiration, vocation or perversion that is the exclusive domain of one of the three to the exclusion of the other two. The key to illustration this principle is to ask, ‘How does the very scott-friendly occupation of cop manifest in the world of the clark and the roger‘, or ‘Those rogers are natural machine-operators, everyone knows the best accountants are rogers, but!! what does a clarklike accountant look like or, god-forbid, a scottian CPA (“You want a Profit Loss Statement?!!? I got yer Profit Loss Statement… right here!)

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* ‘Wayback Machine, from the cartoon ‘Mr. Peabody and Sherman’

** ‘Grat Items’ a term for the components of the list of things for which I am thankful for the TToT post (created by Friend of The Doctrine, Lizzi)

*** lol don’t get scared, New clarklike Readers, at our hearing your thoughts, this is, after all, the Wakefield Doctrine