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

…back now.

Was wandering up and down the aisles, corridors and rows of the Archives. (Well, thirty-three hundred posts do gotta take up some room!)

Funny, one of the genuinely astounding effects of the Wakefield Doctrine on us has been the eliminating, (or severely reducing) the crippling self-consciousness that most clarks endure as we go through our lifes being on the alert for unexpected scrutiny from the world around us. As Curator, we suppose it is tempting to minimize this miracle by dismissing it as, ‘Well, no one said you had to start a blog. And the people who do frequent it are there by choice. What’s the big deal?”

(Did we mention that our tertiary aspect is rogerian? lol)

Seeing how cai who frequently comments here, is the leading member of the newest (aka most recent) generation of Readers, allow us to review the concept referenced in parenthetical above.

We, all of us have a predominant worldview. Others call this (one’s) personality type. The Doctrine says it is one of three ways to relate to the world: as an Outsider (clark), a Predator (scott) or a Herd Member (roger).

A person has one predominant world. Everyone, being born with the potential of the three, has a secondary aspect and a tertiary aspect.

Example: We, the Curator, are:  (predominant worldview) clark with a significant secondary scottian and a weak tertiary rogerian aspect.

Listen now: this is about layers and levels, potentials and talents. In the Wakefield Doctrine perspective, a person is not a clark but sometimes becomes a scott. There is no fourth personality type, a roger-clark-scott.

You know about talents and gifts, right?

Warning: lots of better words and allegory and analogies in the serious theories and books. One of the distinguishing characteristics of this here personality theory here is that it is meant to be fun. That applies to language and logic and such. Lots of acclaimed studies and documented theories borne on the backs of countless studies and credible stats. Libraries (and the internet) chock full of em.

this is the Wakefield Doctrine

…where were we?

oh yeah. take musical talent… more specifically, the idea of ‘having an ear for music’ Some have a great ear others not so much. Only shows when you walk into the house and they’re upstairs singing in the shower.

secondary and tertiary aspects? Only shows …sometimes. Usually under duress but often during a transient episode of ‘silliness’ (technical term).

Back to your Curator.

Under duress or heightened enthusiasm* our scottian aspect shows. An edge, a fearlessness, a noticeable lack of fear. Take this blog. (…please! bar-rum-bump!) We write with a seeming lack of concern for logic, spelling, syntax, sense and any fear that a Reader might criticize the content. (Hint: scottian, all day long). We stated that our tertiary aspect is rogerian. It is a shame that it manifests only in a weakly, sporadic manner. Had we a significant secondary rogerian aspect, this blog would be way more… popular(?)  read… or something.

oh well.

Hope this helps.

*to other clarks reading this lol ikr?