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

We’re needing a whole passel of words today, seeing how we’re in the last chapter(s) of our Serial Six, ‘…Of Heroes and the MisUnderstood’. With this in mind, we’ll ask your indulgence as we empty one metaphorical cardboard box into another.

Hey! There’s something the shiny, bright ain’t-good-enough-if-it’s-not-new 21st C kids are missing out on. Sure, if they have anything as archaic as a pile of hardcopy stuff.

Anyway, we’ll just say a quick prayer to St. Charles* and find us some homey-but-still-kinda-picaresque-around-the-edges old RePrint to get us started on this Tuesday.

(OK Full Disclosure: Back in the early days of this blog when we didn’t-know-that-we-didn’t-have-a-writing-style (aka the Grail of all beginner fiction writers, a ‘Voice’) we did a lot of the strings of words (connected-by-dashes-which-served-the-function-of-creating-the-sense-of-a-narrative-aside) ya know?) (here’s some extra parentheticals… we’ve never been all that good at making sure we close them…use ’em as you see fit) (thanks) )). ((

lol Fun days they was.

Anyway Check out the serial story “…Of Heroes and the MisUnderstood” that Tom and I are finishing up in the next week or so**

Here ya go. RePrint (dusty-from-the-attic)

“You see, you start out with a little bit of oil. Then you fry some garlic.” the Wakefield Doctrine (…a personality theory for all sorts of people and situations)

December 9, 2013

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

“Hey, come over here, kid, learn something. You never know, you might have to understand the behavior of 20 people someday.”

No, I don’t think it odd that I am starting today’s Post with a quote from a famous movie. (If you know, without googling, what movie these lines are from, I will send you an official Wakefield Doctrine docTee!*) Most of the Posts that we write start with some totally random item from the world, however this is entirely appropriate, given the nature of the Wakefield Doctrine as a personality theory.

You know that the Doctrine is not really a personality theory, right? We have not (yet) delved into the matter of how we come to settle on one (of the three worldviews) as our predominant worldview. We don’t know why some of us have significant secondary and tertiary aspects and some are simply clarks… or scotts or rogers. We don’t even know what influences in the family structure are important! Birth order is kind of intriguing, but the worldview of the parents have little bearing on who goes to which worldview and, while evidence exists that is highly suggestive of a component of childhood trauma (of any type) as ’cause’ of one worldview being selected over the other, there is nothing anywhere near definitive. So what do we know?

Well, for starters we know that:

• we all find our predominant worldview and we adapt to the nature of that world.  as Outsiders, clarks become creative, learn to camouflage ourselves among the ‘normal’ children and set out to leave no information un-examined…in the hopes of learning to become ‘part of’; finding themselves in the world of the Predator, scottsdo what comes naturally, run and play and search out their environment, they are the first to go into the abandoned building, first to kiss a boy and are comfortable in the principle’s office because they cannot walk away from a fight and finally, …the majority of children (between the ages of 1 and 4) look around and know that they belong, they are Herd members. not an easy gig by any stretch of the imagination. just as with any member of a team or a family or a congregation, they discover that there are Rules and not only must they be followed, they must be shown to others and that, for the rogers, the good of the many must be imposed on the few
• while we all are predominately one (of the three personality types), we all have the potential of the other two. for reasons not yet fully understood,  some clarks seem to come out of their shells at times, not at the behest of others, not because they want to, usually because there is a need to; scotts will often express a significant secondary aspect by demonstrating compassion to their prey, much to the confusion (of their prey) and chagrin to themselves, but they will ultimately over-come this by dispatching their victim or marrying them or setting out to right the injustices around them and rogers…poor rogers! a significant secondary aspect (of either sort) means nothing but dissatisfaction and dismay. they are in a world that should be ‘ordered and defined’, a world in which every one knows their place and worse, far worse, is that rogers (with a significant secondary aspect) have the misfortune to be able to see the sides of the box that is their perfect world
• if you learn the principles of the Doctrine and the characteristics of the three worldviews and (if you) correctly infer the worldview of the other person, you will be in a position to know more about them than they know about themselves
• if you practice inferring the worldview of the people around you, you will not only know why they behave the way that they do, but you will know what they will do, how they will respond to a situation or event that has not yet happened
• if you have the desire, the Wakefield Doctrine offers a tool for changing that part, that aspect, those habits that you have always wanted to change but have either had no luck doing so or, far worse, you have succeeded at changing only to discover that you have somehow slid back to where you managed to move yourself away from
• the Doctrine is fun…there are other people like you here, the cool thing is that you don’t have to risk guessing wrong who will ‘get you’

That’s enough for a Monday morning. Just remember this, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.  Unlike most of the personality quizzes and tests and free samples you see in magazines and on the internet, the Doctrine is not a mirror-shaped club. No matter how certain you are that the other person would benefit from this, it just doesn’t work that way.

..still a lot of fun, tho

 

For music, here’s Joe Cocker’s version of ‘The Letter’  (written by and a hit for the Boxtops)

* Dickens, of course, the Patron Saint of serial story-writing

** if the name Six Sentence Café and Bistro makes you sit up and say, “Oh yeah? What’s going on down there now?” Stay tuned.