Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Full Disclosure: Went looking in the blog anchovies for a ‘Labor Day’ post, preferably from the really, early days. No luck. Went up to 2015 and gave up. I did, however, find one of my earliest Sixes and it kinda foreshadowed my current writing, before acquiring the jones rhetorique, cool. But not a post that said, ‘Happy Labor Day from the Wakefield Doctrine’). Interesting.
…or not.
I grabbed the following as the memory mechanism got all wavy-lines on my reality.
Trust you’ll enjoy.
(Hey, scotts… sure, this is, perhaps after Fourth of July, one of your holidays. Try not to explode the Weber or end up in the emergency room. (Sure, you can take a handful of potato salad and fashion a reasonable facsimile of a softball, but no one will laugh, (unless there’s a clark, standing on the sidelines of the makeshift first base).
Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Some good-for-you, possibly-good-for-the-other-person things you can do with this here Doctrine here’.September 21, 2015
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Only requirement to benefit from the application of the Wakefield Doctrine: be willing and able to allow that, Reality is, to a small but totally certain extent, personal.
So what are the things that you can use the Wakefield Doctrine for, in the course of your day today?
- (better) Understand the people in your life.
- ( better) Understand yourself
- (have a lot better chance of success to) Change the things about yourself that you’ve wanted to change, but have never managed to quite achieve.
- (pretty much, totally) Prevent other people from changing things about yourself that they want to change, but you suspect is not in your best interest.
- (in the way of your people) Have fun.
- (promise not to tell them, at least until you get more grounded in this here personality theory, but you will so) Know more about the people you encounter in the course of the day than you have any business knowing, maybe even, more than they know about themselves. cool, eh?
oh, yeah… there is, of course, a certain degree of reading and learning and, most of all, practice required to be a position to realize the above benefits. I will, however, guarantee them, (the benefits stated in easy-to-read-point-points* above). Remember that all the descriptions and examples of the three worldviews are simply clues and imagery to aid you in answering the essential Question the Wakefield Doctrine would have us ask:
‘how does that person relate themselves to the world around them’
…as does a(n):
- Outsider (clark) i.e. (for you), the world and all the people are ‘out there’, you know that only knowing will allow you to know that you are known to those you know as being a ‘real person’ (that being said, if you’re a clark, you’re totally fricken creative (not just reassemble the same old parts into a new-looking thing, but (the) bring into the world something that has never existed kind of creative), and you’re a great listener (clinically and certifiably tolerant… to the point of self-destructively so) and you’re funny (but only when you think (or don’t care if) anyone is listening) and you thinking in parentheseses
- Predator (scott) alive and not given to introspection, at least not the type of introspection that your clarklikefriend does (and you do have a clarklike friend, because… well because you can’t figure them out!! most of the time they, (your clarklike friend), acts like prey (you know, rogers) and that’s ok, if not a little, well, boring, but every now and then, maybe during one of those times that you play a little too rough (hey, you got to have your fun too, we know! we know!) anyway, every now and then they rear up and knock you … ass-over-teacup** and you’re like, ‘Alright!! lol” ...that friend. In the meantime, you live your life and it unfolds… ’cause, even though you can’t be bothered wasting time thinking about it, you know that today is everything….
- Herd Member (roger) today is not just the only day (as it is for scotts), nor is it the day before the real day, (as it is for clarks), today, well today is perfect. Your only concern is to be able to live up to it. There are a million ways your day can go today and some are good and some not so good, but there is only one correct way. You know that the world and reality, (the things you know, the places you’ve been, well, everything but the people that you encounter), are knowable and quantifiable, given the effort on your part. It’s not that success is the only thing that matters today, what is important to you is that you not ‘fail improperly’ today.
that’s enough for today. come back tomorrow, or better yet, ask us questions in the comments.
*Friend of the Doctrine, Christine informs us that the term ‘bullet points’ is frowned upon in today’s phobic-philic culture
**What an archaically amusing expression!
“…today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. “
Fortunate for us your “memory mechanism got all wavy-lines”.
Jeff. How I love that man’s expression.
Will go off now to read that Six of old.
Back from the past – cool Six!
Always a pleasure to see that the more things change, the more they stay the same.