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

This particular Monday, let’s go look for two things: summertime and ‘the Everything Rule’

Couldn’t find an example of a post discussing summertime that we enjoyed all that much (most were focused on the end of summer.) We get that.

But! While we didn’t find a post that was the first mention of the Everything Rule, we did find a post that uses the terminology that preceded it!

lol

… no, now that I read this reprint (below), it’s clear that it doesn’t provide an example, explanation, illustration or music video that has all that much to do with the Everything Rule.

(In a touching example of faith in the Reader, here is the post from 2012 or something and beneath that, a slight discourse on ‘the Everything Rule’)

Before we get into this short Post with the  intriguing Title, a caveat to new Readers.
The Wakefield Doctrine is 2 parts art ( or as we say in the Wakefield part of the world, ‘ahht’)  and 1 part science. The ‘science part’ is pretty straight-forward:

we are all born with the capability of seeing the world/experiencing reality in three distinct and characteristic ways. At some point in early childhood we settle on one worldview and become what we call: clarks, scotts and rogers. Throughout our lives we experience the world with the biases, pre-conjecture and implications of this one view, we call this being a clark, acting like a scott and feeling like a roger. We all retain the capacity to see the world as the other two personality types do, if we try, if we have enough ‘flexible intelligence’, a strong enough clarklike side.  Everything in the Doctrinefollows from this. The Wakefield Doctrine, as it describes personality is gender and culture and age neutral. It is about the world that we perceive, not a list of genetic traits, parental training  that accounts for our behavior.  That is the science.

As to the art…

…the art (of the Doctrine) is found in the act of detecting small, characteristic expressions (physical, mental and emotional) of the other person.  …the art of the Doctrine is putting yourself in the other person’s shoes and trying to see the world as they see it.  …the art of the Doctrine is standing in their shoes, imagining you are a (clark or scott or a roger) and seeing if their behavior makes sense. …the art of the Doctrine is to do this with all three types in different situations until you see the world as the other person sees it.

…as to ‘the smile of the clark‘?  That is where the art creates the fun.  Ever see a person who smiles by compressing their lips and looks at you (either) through the corners of their eyes or ‘up through the top’ of their eyes?  Chances are you are looking at a clark.
…now look at that person’s posture.  Bad, is it?  Rounded shoulders,  slight hunch around the neck?,  a ‘looseness’ around the hips as if ready to make a run for it?  Chances are increasing that you are looking at a clark.
(now here is the fun part…the art part…) Look at the music video below at the bottom of this Post.  Albert Lee is the guy with the white/grey hair behind and to the right of Vince Gill. He is obviously having the time of his life, his smile… his whole face is smiling…
Albert is a clark.

(I know, I know)   “what the hell!! you said they are furtive and scared looking. You just told us clarks smile by compressing their lips and look like they are ready to run for it!! You said that, I have it in writing!!  

Thats the fun. The Wakefield Doctrine is like that.  There are guidelines and there are even rules, heck we even have Core Principles! But as a practitioner,

• you will be the one to observe the other person
• you will be the one to ‘try out’ the ways that the other person might be seeing the world
• you will be the one who gets ‘a feeling’ they might be a clark or a scott or a roger
• you will be the one who will tell another person, “hey look at this…does this seem rogerian or just a scott on an off day?”
• …and you will be the only one to decide, knowing that you cannot break the Doctrine and that the other person will still be the clark or the scott or the roger that they are, whether you ‘get it right’ or not

Like we said….this is fun!

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So. The Everything Rule is intended to remind beginner Doctoriaires that the three predominant worldviews (‘personality types’) are about the character of the relationship between the person and the world. A person may relate themselves to the world they encounter this Monday morning as implied by the relationship of:

1. Outsider(clark) who, and this is top of list for the solution to the question, ‘Which am I?’, considers the world, (and the people who make it up), as being ‘out there’ and therefore apart from, (by a gap small or stupendous), themselves.
2. Predator(scott) don’t have time for a consideration of the character of their Monday morning. The world is an adventure, a challenge, satisfying and if you’re not doing something to/with/at someone or something, then you’re asleep or dead. Which, for them, is kinda the same thing.
3. Herd Member(roger) the character of their relationship to the world around them is as the hub of the wheel. This exists in the realm of faith, does not require proof, evidence or verification. They are. The world is. How linked, (to them), everything is, is the point of life.

ok! enough for this morning.