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

In the course of this week’s TToT ‘hop, I read a reference by a participant to the fun of personality theories, at least the part where we apply the categories to the people who make up the world around us. It reminded me of two things: 1) the fun of such systems and B) how much I used to write posts, strictly in the service of promulgating our favorite personality theory.

Welll!

The fun can take care of itself.

The promulgation… we got ya covered.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. The basis of the Doctrine’s utility and fun is centered on determining the nature of the relationship between the person and the world. There are three characterisitic relationships:

1. that of the Outsider (clarks): aloof but sentimental
2. the world of the Predator (scotts): dynamic but caring (one-to-one)
3. the life of the Herd Member (rogers): fastidious but hopeful

Once we’ve determined the relationship, (between us or the girl at the Seven Eleven who is, like, totally weird, interesting to a fault and, clearly, if last Friday night is any indication, way too tolerant of jerks), and the world we’re in, which we refer to as one’s predominant worldview, we are in a position to know way more about the other person than we really out to be. ya know?

Well, no, obviously, if you’re new to this blog, you probably don’t. Unless you’re a clark (or a scott or a roger with a signicant secondary clarklike aspect), in which case you’re already jumping ahead. The fun here, for you, if that we’ve got a system of making sense of people and, this system is not an end-all-be-all.

The Wakefield Doctrine is one more perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

More is better than less, when it comes to making sense of the world.

Now, I just read my description of the three predominant worldviews… suitable for regular Readers, not so much for new Readers. So, this being a Reprint Monday, the following:

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):

1. 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
2. Predator (scott) alive and not given to introspection, at least not the type of introspection that your clarklike friend 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….
3. 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!

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(some music if’n I come across any)