Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Let’s get all, practical-application, take-it-out-of-the-shipping-container, now what do I do with this thing, personality theory.
First thing: it’s about you, not them.
Second thing: everyone does everything, at one time or another
Third thing: there is no proper sequence, warm-up, don’t-hurt-yourself, sequence.
Read * Practice * Apply
(the perspective that is the Wakefield Doctrine is not an answer, it is (are) beneficial questions and, without quite constituting cheating, suggestions for alternative ways to experience the world and the people who make it up.)
And, as the old saying reminds us, “Eighty percent of success is just showing up.”
About clarkscottroger
Reminders, by someone else, or self, are never a bad thing. So thanks for the Tuesday Tips.
The reminder for me is that very thing “practice”.
Practice recognizing my first and instinctive reaction to another’s behavior (literal/conversational and what I may perceive as “negative” or not even) is such, as it is first filtered through my own lens (clark).
So. Go to still frame, apply the Doctrine. It offers me opportunity to ameliorate my initial reaction. Which is to say it affords me an alternative perspective which allows me to at least “make sense” of a situation that otherwise may have been “what the heck?” or even a “WTF!” or simply, “huh?”
‘Reminders’ are surely bookmarks…useful to return to a given starting place, understood to mark not only a different point in a story, but to a point in a story that has changed since last read.
Good to have, though
Very nice. Life should always have easy to apply instructions.
Excellent summary, easy to remember.
true dat