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

This Monday morning is one of the justifications for using RePrint posts. Lots of words written through the end of last week, i.e. three Six Sentence Story posts. We will return to the topic, ‘What’s the Deal with getting Tired of Writing?’ in a little bit.

First our Post-from-the-Past. (It’s got Doctrine ‘splanations and a music vid and ever thang.)

{Before we hit Publish, a note. What we found interesting about posting this post, (yeah, we do read them first, despite, you know, having written them), is our reactions). Our initial reaction was: ‘err, kinda early in the Doctrine process, maybe we should get something a little more on book?’ And, courtesy of whatever forces were part of the whole original Eureka! experience, we almost immediately were, ‘Nah. That was what the Doctrine was back then, in the second full year. Sure, it’s a little rough (lol) and the focus might be a touch blurry.’ But the beauty part is that the second intent prevailed. That gives us hope. Because we all know that dealing with the world around us and the people who make it up is all about habit and routine. Usually, oldest habits trump younger ones. Which helps explain why, when we try to self-improve-ourselfs, all too often, we backslide. When, and this next is way more than we have time for, change is integrated into our lives properly, it lasts. Very much like an organ transplant. Except for it being energy rather than blood. What is critical to assure the new liver/habit has a healthy, normal supply of…}

Ask us again, when it’s not so late on a Monday Morning.

“…of hats and hearts and minds”, correctly understood and properly applied, the Wakefield Doctrine will change your life!

December 8, 2011

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

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that all people…you, me and the roger who you think you want to show this blog to (but know instinctively that it would be a bad idea), are all born with the ability to experience the world in one of three ways.¹ The Wakefield Doctrine is totally based on the idea that, come a certain age (say 3 to 5 years old) all of us ( even that scottian friend who is so much fun to be with but is so exhausting ) settle on just one of these three ‘worldviews’ and we go on to live our lives as clarks or scotts or rogers.  Even though we ‘become’ one of these three personality types, we never lose the capacity to see the world the way the other two personality types see it.

…so there you have the three personality types : clarks, scotts and rogers

The Wakefield Doctrine is both gender neutral and culture neutral.  While limitations and conditions may be imposed by the fact of gender or the requirements of local culture, the drive will not change. a scott is aggressive, a roger is sociable and clarks are outsiders no matter what. Sometimes you have to look a little closer at what kind of world the other person seems to be living in.  What makes this a critical concept is that the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the idea that personality is not a collection of traits and impulses, interests and desires randomly scattered through the population of humans. The key to understanding and using the Wakefield Doctrine is the willingness to accept the idea that all of us have individual, slightly different but mostly the same realities and that it is the character of the reality we find ourselves in that drives our choices of behavior and therefore accounts for our personality. The advantage to this approach is quite simple, if I know which of the three realities you are in, I will know how you are likely to respond to any given situation.

But most of all the Wakefield Doctrine is fun! Fun to know about, fun to use in daily life, fun to share with certain friends².  And the cool thing we are finding is that  once you learn to recognise the clarks and the scotts and the rogers in your own world,  the rest of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will become apparent! Sort of on it’s own,  it lets you see the world in a different way. Really. We are totally serious about this. We are seeing this ‘self-learning’ effect with the new Readers every day. Now to be fair,  this is saying as much about (you) Readers as it does about the Doctrine.  Anyone who finds the personality theory of the Wakefield Doctrine interesting (and who doesn’t?) has the kind of mind that likes to play with ideas. And it is this kind of person who will find the uses of the Doctrine pretty much on their own.  A warning! Depending on which of the three you are, you may experience some initial difficulties getting past the initial, “well I get the three personality types, but how do I know which one I am“?
It’s all here in the Posts and the Pages. If you are inclined to do it all yourself then you will find all the information you will need. If you are not so inclined, then just ask one of us!  Write a Comment. If you are not feeling like being so…public in your learning phase, then contact one of the DownSprings or FOTDs ( Friends of the Doctrine ). I assure you that they will be more than happy to help, either by sharing their experiences (the clarks), giving you simple instructions (scotts) or happily taking the time to layout the Rules and Regulations of the Doctrine ( if you choose a roger as mentor)³.

(How to choose?… whichever sounds like what you are thinking):

• “…alright!! I get the Rules and the Principles but wheres the fun at!!!”  You so need to contact Ms AKH  or Alx
• “…well, this is all very interesting, and you seem quite sincere about this ‘theory’ of yours…”  your only real hope is to contact the Progenitor roger or maybe DownSpring Joanne, right now
• “what was the question”…”sorry, I was looking at”…. “what do you mean. ‘only one characteristic quote per personality type’”?”…”oh, I’m sorry, I really meant to follow the rules to the letter as I really think this Doctrine could be useful”  you are in luck!  Molly is there, as is DS#1 awaiting your question…

Alright. Enough for today. Got to come up with a Video Post for tomorrow…send in your suggestion for a topic and if we use your idea we will send you a (nearly free) Wakefield Doctrine hat (for your damn head)!  HTFU!

Big shout-outs to newer Readers!!  Debbie, yo… write us a Comment, already… Jasmine, Jasmine, Jasmine – come on baby, we are so totally waiting for your comment so we can send you a hat!! Anthea!! Don’t worry,  this is a fun place for us kind of people…really!!

1) when we say ‘see the world in one of three ways’ we are totally serious, as in the actual world is ‘different’ for each of the three types….not  “clarks choose only to see the (whatever) parts of life” or “scotts are active because they have so much energy”  no!  we mean the reality, the world itself is (slightly) different for the three personality types….thats why there are three personality types.

2) a word to clarks:  the first person you think ‘would enjoy this’ is a roger…the second person you think of is a scott and they are the ones you should tell about this thing.

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