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

Since few will be waxing nostalgic for the previous year, it’s an easy bet that, at least for today, traditional resolutions will, by and large be down to earth, i.e. ‘Don’t succumb to pandemic’, ‘Continue to appreciate what one has’ and ‘Carpe the day’

In the interest of perspective, let’s survey past New Year’s posts. Of course, by ‘survey’, we mean, copying their respective titles into a list. Surely nothing that strikes more to the heart of a blog post than its title.

And, in case we have any New Readers (this is, after all, New Year’s Day) we will grapple directly with a common challenge: “You claim this personality theory is a tool for self-improving oneself? Prove it!”

Two words: each of the twelve citations below are linked to their original, unabashed edition*. What clark out there (or roger or scott… well, what roger) is ever inclined to say, “Sure lets get out my old efforts-at-fiction/high-school-yearbook/baby-pictures/break-up-letters and read ’em aloud to the group?”

January 1, 2010: ‘questa cosa di il nostro’  (translation: ‘This thing of ours’)

January 1, 2011: ‘one, two, three, four. Can I have a little more?‘ (posted on January 2nd)

January 1, 2012: ‘the View from a chair and a bed… the Wakefield Doctrine, suffering and the impetus to change.’

January 1, 2013: ‘2013: ‘Goals and Ambitions’ the Wakefield Doctrine (a) Year of Exploration, Illustration and Demonstration‘

January 1, 2014: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)‘

January 1, 2015: ‘…in with the <del>few</del>, <del>the blue</del> the new!!! that’s it! -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘rise and find, binyons!”

January 1, 2016: ‘TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘well, seeing how it starts on a <em>Friday</em>, 2016 may just turn out to be cool 12 months” (posted on the 2nd)

January 1, 2017: ‘Tuesday Post -the Wakefield Doctrine- “because Tuesday is the most innocuous day of the week” (Again with January 2nd… musta been a heckuva Eve)

January 1, 2018: ‘January 1, 2018 -the Wakefield Doctrine-‘

January 1, 2019: ‘9.5 years later…. -the Wakefield Doctrine-‘

January 1, 2020: ‘Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-‘

January 1, 2021: ‘Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘as old is new, so past is future”

* ‘unabashed edition’ a rogerian expression