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

Just enough time for a short, quick little post.

(Gots to work on our Six Sentence Story(s). Yeah, we know! How the heck did that get pluralized?!! Will explain at the bottom of this post. First things first, y’know. The Doctrine being all, sine qua non and all.)

Damn! Could not find a short, quick little Doctrine post. Guess I’ll just have to write one from scratch.

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. This last half of the previous sentence? Big clue to getting the most out of the Doctrine. When we say, :…and the people who make it up”, we’re being pretty much literal. And, while how it can be that we’re literal, is beyond a quick, little post like this, suffice it to say, the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that all reality, to a small, but very real degree, is personal.

Yep, just what your inner roger is saying, “Oh, you’re telling me that we make all this up. That if I drop this anvil on my foot, it will be alright. That’s what you’re telling us? Prove it!”

First drop the anvil.

(ba rum bump!)

Seriously. There’s a saying here that came into use somewhere around the fourth or fifth year. It describes the goal/end product of utilizing the principles underlying this here personality theory here. The wording is quite deliberate and so necessary to the intent, that each time we reference it, we include the phrase, ‘Notice we did not say…’

The saying, describing the the practical application of the Doctrine? To help us appreciate and improve how we relate ourselves to the world around us. (Did italics rather than a ‘Notice…’ figure you’re all regular Readers if’n you’re still here.)

It is not enough to relate to the world, (and the family-unit and the-teacher-at-the-front-of-the-room and the-cashier-at-the-gas-station or the-priest-doing-their-best-to-help or the-b/gfriend-doing-their-worst-to-gain-the-upper-hand or the-voice-in-your-head-that-assures-you-it-has-nothing-but-your-best-interests-at-heart), we must/should relate ourselfs, as in, account for, accept responsibility for our roles.

(Well! That was refreshing… to get all old-school-Doctrine-post-with-the-connected… you know what we mean)

Any way.

Stop back any time.

What makes this work? The Doctrine is one more, additional perspective on what you’ll be encountering today. Try using it. It won’t make anything worse. It will, in all likelihood make things more interesting.