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

Let’s start with an overview of current bloghops we participate in…*

Wait just a minute.

We interrupt the casual tone of one starting the day with zero pressure, negative stress. Like the theme to ‘Leave it to Beaver’ (of song by the Platters), soft, melodious and resonating with the message, ‘Don’t worry, Everything is as it should be’.

nuh uh

This is the Wakefield Doctrine. A perspective on the world around, (all of), us and the people who make it up. The Wakefield Doctrine offers that, given a certain degree of flexible intelligence and confident curiosity we can, (all of us), see the world as the other person is experiencing it. By allowing ourselfs the additional perspective of the three personality types (aka predominant worldviews), we can know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

These three predominant worldviews are:

1. clarks (Outsiders)
2. scotts (Predators)
3. rogers (Herd Members)

And while each are quite distinct and distinguishable in terms of characteristic responses to everyday situations, they are all grounded in the notion that our relationship with the world, (established at a very early age), is the basis for our personality types. To put that more simply: We are, all of us, born with the potential to see the world as: Outsiders, Predators or Herd Members. It is this initial choice that informs our development of personality, the style of our social strategies and such.

Imagine waking up as a two or three year old in one of theses three realities. You don’t know that it is one of three ways the world can appear. It’s simply the reality. (After all, you are kinda young in our scenario, probably lacking in a lot of language skills. Ya know?) But the fact is:

1. everyone one else appear to know something about each other (and the world) that you cannot for the life of you see or understand. you know that you are a part of the others, the family, whatever group forms your immediate environment, but you don’t have the assuredness of the others in your family. you suspect you’re not really completely like them and rather than ask why that might be, you keep it to yourself. since you don’t remember missing whatever lesson of life the others evidence, a part of you urges caution. maybe there’s a reason you’re different. a not-good reason. you practice the strategies of appearing to be a part of, while constantly exploring the world (pretty much in your mind, via your imagination) in the hope of finding out why you’re the Outsider
2. man! the world is an exciting place. you know you’re a part of the group around you, the family, but there’s so much to do and so little time to do it. you get comfortable with your social environment but, inside, every waking moment, there’s an urgency to move, to do, to chase. some who you meet, you recognize and immediately establish a relative standing… a ranking. others? they seem to want to be chased, pursued and dominated. everyday something new, something to chase. fun isn’t quite the word, but when someone does something near you, more often than not you’re off and running. Predators do not live by waiting for the world to come to them.
3. huh. the people around you are …fine. they know you and you know them. everything is perfect. except when it is not. then you must earn your place in the group. without doubt there are ways to do things. live, interact with others that are…. well, basically, perfect. if you’re a part of a group, and you know this without knowing why or how you should, then clearly your responsibility to the others is to develop and practice this ‘better way’ and then, by demonstrating it to others, you will be valued. except for those who are different, those not a Herd Member.

* referring, of course, to Denise’s Six Sentence Story; jenne and ceayr’s Unicorn Challenge and the TToT. you should stop in at one (or all of ’em) Tell whoever asks that the Doctrine sent ya

Late in the day to post. Music to ameliorate