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

So, we’re in the midst of wrestling with the issue of how to approach the big Six Sentence Café & Bistro ‘Poetry Slam’ that will be happening at the Six Sentence Story bloghop the day after tomorrow.

You’re all invited to stop by and watch (aka ‘read’) the fun. Or, if you’re so inclined, participate. (We’ll drop a ton ‘o links at the bottom of this post to better spread the word.)

For anyone not familiar with the context of the venue, the Six Sentence Café & Bistro is a virtual …err Café & Bistro? Don’t want to say, ‘metaphorical’ because, while that was the basis of it’s creation and earliest iterations, it has, by virtue of the same magic that, (were you a certain age), and you were driving in your car and saw a sign on a roadside restaurant that read ‘Arnold’s’ or (switching to a more urban setting) ‘Cheers’ (with steps down from a Boston sidewalk) or in the middle of rural america and and came upon ‘the Double Deuce’ you’d know what the inside looked like before you got out of your car.

That, through the mgic of ‘repetition’ in the virtual world is what we have with the SSC&B

It’s a place to go where you can count on it being the same anytime you visit.

But that’s not the original theme of today’s post. (That said, if you need directions or interior descriptions don’t hesitate to feel free to ask: Denise or Mimi or Tom or Nick or Ford or Chris or Jenne for descriptions of the ‘physical’ setting.

but, it’s a short-post morning, so we need to be brief.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It proposes that, instead of a menu of characteristics and typical behavior and tropisms that, when assessed will result in a score that puts a person into (a) personality type, the Doctrine relies entirely on the nature of (a) person’s relationship to the world. We have three ‘personality types’: clarks(Outsider), scotts(Predator) and rogers(Herd Members). The parenthetical is the hint as to the relationship, the names are the fun part.

Anyway. We’re born with the three, settle into one, but retain the potential of ‘the other two’. (Still with me?)

The beauty part of the Doctrine is, accepting that a child can perceive themselves as one half of the three relationships, it’s not a stretch to imagine that, when I was growing up an Outsider, the behaviors for interacting with the world would reflect that perception. As a result, one can say, I have the best personality given the nature of the reality I grew up in. (New Readers? That’s where the quality within yourself comes to the fore. If you’re still reading, then one of your traits is to enjoy playing with ideas, imagining things for the fun of it and simple intellectual flexibility. Welcome to the Doctrine. Your friends on the out-wave of the swinging exit door? Don’t worry about them. They’ve already forgotten or decided this was stupid. We’ll just keep with ourselfs, ok?

damn! Still didn’t get to the topic!

The topic was to have been: the role and effect of secondary and tertiary aspects as manifested in the Wakefield Doctrine.

While we said that everyone has one and only one predominant worldview (clark, scott or roger) we retain the capacity to experience the world from the perspective of ‘the other two worldviews’. It is a potential, not necessarily an actual. Some people are all predominant worldview, others a predominant with a significant secondary or tertiary (worldview).

In the interest of time and the fading hope of tying this to the intended topic, in the context of the preceding, I’m a clark (predominant worldview) with a significant secondary aspect (scott) and a weak tertiary aspect (roger).

I’ll be participating in the online ‘Poetry Slam’. And enjoying it.

That is an example of how secondary aspects manifest, when using the additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

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