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

Hey, ho.

Despite enjoying, (or enduring), a certain reputation for making the understanding, appreciation and application of the principles of our little ‘personality theory’ a bit on the stodgy side, we will be indulging in a bit of the cultural canard of New Year’s Resolutions.

Right there! There’s a hint at both the _subtext and ^supertext of our first post of the New Year. As always we will leave it to you, the Reader, to decided what we meant*.

Since apparently we’re starting this ‘New’ year quoting famous dead guys, (hey, you think being perceived as standoffish, aloof and ever-so-slightly condescending comes without effort?! ). What say we surpass¹ on the usually misquoted Shakespeare riff about brevity and intelligence and, ‘What say we go back to the beginning-time and see how it feels to write posts in the 300 to 666 word range‘.

awright! at the semi-halfway

For our New Readers: some of the old admonitions and maybe some music and call it a wrap.

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

the Doctrine is an easy-to-use perspective on the world around us, and the people who make it up.

We are, all of us, experiencing the world at this moment as: a clark(Outsider), scotts(Predator) or roger(Herd Member). What makes us any, (and, by the way, only) one of these three is the world we grew up and developed in; our ‘personality type’ is perfect. Our way of getting through life is informed by the world as we experience it.

The basis of all this, on a practical level, is (that) by applying the Wakefield Doctrine in our interactions with others, we enhance our ability to see the world as the other person is experiencing it,

the three:

1. clarks(Outsiders) those who live on the fringe avoiding scrutiny, a clark is creative to a fault, funny, (when heard or in a bad mood…lol) and, while abhorring the spotlight, on matters of value to them, will not tolerate being ignored
2. scotts(Predators) the personality type we all, at one time or another, wish we were and, with the wisdom of maturity, are thankful we are not…lol scotts live in the here-and-now, experiencing the world as directly as possible. The result is they make to-the-death friends and fearsome enemies.
3. rogers(Herd Members) the one, (of the three), that accounts for civilization and enduring culture. rogers, are the reason trains run on time and science is coaxed into being useful to the rest of us. rogers know there is a Right Way to do things (and get through Life) and never surrender their right to help others accept that.

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

* of course, as is the way of the Wakefield Doctrine, the notion of ‘discerning what the speaker/writer means’ is the first of the survival insights that students of the Doctrine exhibit. (Another Hint: it requires the verb ‘manifest’ to be, in any way, useful.)

1) easy one: New Readers go to the section on rogers and look up ‘rogerian expressions’. This one, the ‘surpass’, is the first of the most characteristic traits of the personality type: Herd Member