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

OK!

We just spent twenty-three minutes on yourtybe trying to find a song from 1974 for two reasons: 1) to flush an earworm* and b) to find a song from the same album but with a killer guitar hook… ’cause, Seventies!.

Just gotta test the ‘Start At’ function and we can proceed with this Monday’s Monday Doctrine Post (‘Did the Seventies Ever End?‘)

Fine.

Of late the topic of interest has been focused on the practical uses (and value) of the Wakefield Doctrine. We have, hopefully, made clear that the primary advantage of employing everyone’s favorite personality theory as a tool to self-improve oneself lies in the idea that while we become a ‘personality type’ by virtue of learning to exist, survive and thrive in a personal reality (one of three) we have, within, the qualities inherent in ‘the other two’. And, simply put, if you find yourself lacking in behavioral adaptations/strategies/’hey-this-is-easy!’ then one of the other two surely has the skills.

Of course, seeing how the Doctrine posits that our personality types are the result of a lifetime (more importantly an infancy and childhood) of developing and practicing a certain style of interaction, (you remember! clark/Outsider, scott/Predator and roger/Herd Member) so, it does us little good to sit and wish: “I claim my inner (one of the other two).”

That said, the key lies in the ‘inner’. You might have been a clark (and you’ve already read most of the posts with an excitement building from a sense of the increasing familiarity to this thing) or a scott (laughing and seeing nothing fleeing/attacking at the moment and so indulge in a rare moment of speculation) or a roger (looking around, seeing no little ‘r’s in circles or too many comments at the bottom, look for the hook in this system, knowing when it might come in handy sometime).

So with the Wakefield Doctrine you can dispense with one of the most fundamental (and therefore effective) mechanisms employed by ‘Society’ to achieve a certain degree of consistency among it’s constituents: “Sure they might do it, but you? That’s just not you!”

Yes. Yes it is.

ProTip: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral. It’s all about how you, the Reader relate yourself to the world around you and the people who make it up.

Good luck

*always works for those of us unfortunately grounded in a reality in which never mind, if you identify, that’s all thats important

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