Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Talk about very little time to write!
Way behind.
So, here the basics:
Three personality types:
- clarks (the Outsider)
- scotts (the Predator)
- rogers (the Herd Member)
We all, at a very early age, ‘become’ one of these three. By ‘become’ we mean, through a mechanism not yet understood, a young child begins yo assume a certain bias towards for how she/he relates themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up. Strategies, and styles are practiced until the successful ones are ingrained so much so that the personal reality of the individual becomes clarklike, scottian or rogerian in nature and character.
This is why we say, ‘Everyone has the perfect personality’. (Our unsaid condition: for the world they are experiencing.)
A clark seeks knowledge and information (clarks think), the scott lives the life active, seeking prey and escaping larger predators (scotts act), the roger connects and forms emotional bonds with as many people (and places and things) as possible, the better to represent the Right way of living(rogers feel).
So when you’re out there today and you have the time, (between sentences in your head), observe the others. Are some immediately attractive with a certain unabashed enthusiasm? You will surely notice some people who offer a warm welcome, a sincere interest in what you are there for and, more of a challenge, who is it that, although seemingly busy at work in the background, appears aware of you?
Sorta grad-level People Watching.
…. and don’t forget! ‘The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.
So…as a clark, while I do love the occasional road trip, I find myself sooooo content with the home life. A whole world in which there exists all-things-clark (music, art, literature, learning, pets, exercise and even the weekly close-by journey to natural surroundings). I wonder that I don’t want to travel to the ends of the earth all the time like different friends of mine do. But now that I think about it, dang, they’re all rogers! Are there many clarks who are vagabonds?
yes.
(thanks, as always, for commenting/contributing to the conversation. I took the liberty of using this comment for a starting point of today’s post)
I’d love to travel, as long as I’m home in time for tea. Or if I can visit friends who are as odd as I am. Or go learn things. Or go places which are familiar.
But I’d still like to be home in time for tea.