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

Not a lot of time, let’s just find a quick, little post.

..wait …just a darn minute!!

New Readers? Head out to the school yard for a little bit… maybe you can spend the time comparing notes on this, your first impression. What? Sure you can cut up those grocery bags, they’ll make excellent book-covers. There you go now…

Advanced SOtD*? We meant it when we said time was at a minimum this morning. And we found one. And it’s sitting in the clipboard. But before we click paste, remember how the Doctrine maintains that clarks live for the future (…and scotts the present and rogers the past… thank you Mimi. yes, most excellent referencing. please nudge Cynthia and and Alex and Molly, they seem to have fallen asleep.) Well, as we’re scanning past posts, the thought ticker-taped past my attention, ‘Good thing these posts are so varied, even with development of our understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, they are still quite useful.’

And then it hit us: We are benefitting from the clarklike predilection for putting an inordinate value on the future! Holy Shit!

But, hold that thought. No time this morning (for reals). Remind us to return to this insight.

From a February day in 2015:

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

ok  quick and short little Post.  the asterix in the subtitle? (ahem)

‘the Wakefield Doctrine is both gender and culture neutral. the personality types are simply the best effort on the part of (an) individual to contend with a personal reality’ that is (best) characterized as:

1. the worldview of ‘the Outsider’ (clarks): the predominate feature of this individual’s reality is the, ‘apart from’ that imbues the life of the clark. often confused (willfully or not) with being different, odd, introverted, shy, anti-social or  funny-like-that, apartness is them, not us. (of the three personality types), only clarks know that ‘they are here and the world is out there’.  it is a common misperception (when encountering a clark) to mistake being (their) ‘apart from’ as  ‘being different, shy, antisocial, artistic, eccentric, just-don’t-want-to-be-like-everyone-else’
2. the world of the ‘the Predator’ (scotts) immediately identifiable by their presence, scotts have the quality of certainty and decisiveness that make them most likely picked as the leader. they have simply learned the advantage of impatience…. the most common mistake people make about scotts is that ‘they should slow down just a little and maybe people will understand them and they won’t keep getting into trouble with (the principle, the shift manager, the cops, the parish priest or their best friend’s mother)’
3. the life of ‘the Herd Member’ (rogers) they’re everywhere, the majority of (any given) population.  the most common error people make about rogers is that they are ‘taking things personally, when they are taking things personally’… they are, (one of the most tried and true tests to determine a rogerian personality type is to count the personal pronouns in their speech,) but that’s not the point! rogers,live in an chronological world, where B always follows A … unless there was a time when A followed B and then, depending on the current situation, that may be the way it’s always been.

… so, the point of our bullet-pointed insight: as you go through your day today, observe the other person, infer ‘how they are relating themselves to the world around them’, you will then know their predominant worldview and will be in a position to (be able) to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Why? Why go through all this? Because it is (for many of us) better to know than to not know, because everyone’s life has people in it…important people/loved one/barely-tolerated-co-workers/necessary people/obligatory people… they (or rather our interaction with them) is what makes up our day. Now if you are a person who always: gets along with everyone/never has a problem dealing with people/likes and respects everyone… then you can skip this section and go down and listen to our bonus music video …there you go, just click on the red arrow (from an album that disappeared from the shelves before you were born)

… everyone/anyone else?  back to the title. stress:  it happens, it is the fear that we will not meet the demands of the world around us, (as best we understand it… the world and the demands!) and, yet, when you look closer at this fear, it reflects a desire, a hope, a need within to be in harmony with our surroundings… not to submit to a greater force,  as much as to find the common measure in those we interact with…

damn! look at the time!! got to go find the common measure out there

 

(yeah, a bit of a throwback to early blog days, I really enjoyed this song, so here ya go)

 

 

* Students Of the Doctrine, of course, what else could it mean?!