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

A fair amount of items left un-checked on the yellow lined pad today’s beginning. Let’s get all bullet-point on this here post here.

• the Wakefield Doctrine
• the Saturday Night Drive (yeah, does kinda relate to Reader Question 1… damn! foreshadowing in a frickin bullet point list)
• Reader Question 1 Answer (for New Readers)
• Reader Question dos (tune in tomorrow!)

That’s enough of a ‘Hey! Welcome back, how was your weekend and there’s a list of stuff to do.’

The Wakefield Doctrine is one-half tool, one-third crib sheet and four-fifths alternate perspective. The Doctrine holds that we, all of us, are born with the potential to relate to the world around us in one of three distinct (yet not wholly disparate) ways. These relationships are:

1. Outsider (clark) never a part of. at least never to the extent that one can avoid: “Monday morning! Best get up and see what’s waiting in the world out there.”
2. Predator (scott) Monday ain’t nothin’ but a freshly-printed Menu. Somedays it’s all you can eat, others: “Be mindful of the… calories! Always hunt and eat/run and survive, seize the moment.”
3. Herd Member (roger) “A turn of the Wheel, another beginning. The better to feel the Herd in all things. The better to learn to appreciate the Rightness of the Herd.”

Good conversation on the weekly Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Call-in. Denise was on the call and at one point the topic was the importance of remembering the basics: learn the nature of the ‘other two’ predominant worldviews, practice and work on fluency. Fluency, in this context, means to cut down on the amount of unpleasant-time thinking: ‘Why would they say/do/forget something like that?’ and/or ‘Holy shit! That was pretty intense.’

The stated ambition of this blog is to help others to achieve a fluency in the three personality types to such point as to allow us: ‘To see the world as the other person is experiencing it.”

Reader (Misky) Question numero One:

Oh, and one more thing: Why is it called Wakefield?

Here is a parietal (lol) reprint from August 2013. There is, at least on old maps, an actual Wakefield, Rhode Island. Technically, it is a village in the Town of South Kingstown, RI. This is a historically semi-accurate depiction. We did often drive through Wakefield (and bordering Narragansett, RI) on a Saturday night discussing the meaning of life and other topics common to our demographic. [ed. Cast notes: Glenn is a scott with a significant secondary clarklike aspect; Clark went on to accept the position of Curator, donning the plubistically-monastic 3rd person pronouns)

INT.      LATE MODEL GERMAN LUXURY CAR –      NIGHT

Clark and Glenn are in animated discussion, it is clear that the topic is one they are both very, very familiar with and they are covering old ground

CLARK

Blah, blah blah…I know and you know and I know that the theory is valid and way, way more useful than most of the crap that you use for your trainings. When are you gonna incorporate it into one of your modules?

GLENN

Hey, I know its useful I been in this car listening to you for the last 15 years, haven’t I?

CLARK

So what’s it gonna take to do something with this thing…what do you need to take it on the road? Hell, I know you are already stealing parts of it in your presentations

GLENN

Credibility. Thats what it needs…If I go out there in front of my Board of Directors and say, ‘this new module is based on ‘the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’ they will laugh…

CLARK

Yeah, but…it works… it is useful…

GLENN

…And it sounds like it came out of a dorm room…from the 70s. I work in a corporate environment…credibility, empirical…metrics…you hearin this?

CLARK

I get it, I get it…fine! then I’ll change the name…you want credibility?…from now on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is…the…Doctrine, the Wakefield Doctrine!

GLENN

Fuckin yeah!

 

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