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

Sure, there’s a good reason for constantly posting old posts.

Good question.

Answer: creativity appears to function, on a certain level, like exercise. In two aspects:

1. the more you do, the more you can
2. there is, apparently, a limit to sustaining (an) effort

Intriguing enough?

But…. b..but! we have learned a thing or two about sharing the principles of everyone’s favorite personality theory. The foremost of which is to keep it simple(st). What it is and who they are.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It is predicated on the notion that to a small, but quite real extent, reality is personal. Further, the Doctrine is based on the idea that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience the world from the perspective of one of three characteristic ‘relationships’. For reasons not yet understood, at the earliest of ages, we settle into one of these three realities and develop our strategies for interacting/surviving/thriving in this particular world. The personal reality we settle into is referred to as our predominant worldview. The style and manner, strategies and personal adaptions are what others might call personality types. Funny thing, though. From the view of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all have the best possible personality type. Because it represents our best effort to contend with the world around us, (and the people who make it up), as we experience it.

There is only one predominant worldview. We do, however, retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. Sometimes it can happen that a person has a significant secondary aspect or, even tertiary aspect. This does not entail becoming a different personality type. It presents, usually in situations of duress, as an uncharacteristic personal quality. Usually to the benefit of the individual under duress. However, it recedes into the background once the ’emergency’ passes.

(Remember the thing we said about developing our strategies for interacting with the world around us? Yeah, from babyhood, through childhood, into adulthood. Practice. Example: We’re an example of a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. We’ll totally talk to a stranger, hell, we’ll do our damnedest to charm them… but were still a clark. The world, for us, is that of the Outsider. Not a Predator. Hey, ‘cellent segue no?)

The three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine:

• clarks(the Outsider) you know who you are, keep in mind, we tell the world about how we would interact with it, everyone does that* what we need to remember is that it’s a live series not a movie. scripts and even characters can change as quickly as is supported by a reasonable-to-the-audiance story logic. Oh, yeah… wear odd (often soon-to-be-fashionable) clothing, mumble, creative and solid friends
• scotts(the Predator) hey!! (lol) the logo (in all senses of the word) of the scott… they live for the present…no, wait! that was a mistranslation** (from Outsider to Predator realities) they live in the present. (Appreciate the difference and you’re way down the road to making this thing useful in the ‘real’ world.
• rogers(the Herd Member) man! this predominant worldview is as important to appreciate as their natural drive to make the world appreciate them! Whole post need here… but, thanks to the rogerian worldview we have computers and the internet to learn about ’em

* concept lifted from memory fragments of grad school, TA theory, I believe

** the primary value of this here Doctrine here? the concept of translating between predominant worldviews… huge undertaking…way worth it