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

Where were we?

oh, yeah

Thanks out to Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi for her Comment on yesterday’s Post:

It’s certainly helpful to keep in mind, we don’t all think alike.

This is a good reminder of an aspect of this thing of ours that all too ofter gets a lesser treatment: personal reality.

So lets talk about personal reality

New Readers: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

All you need to make the most of the Wakefield Doctrine is to keep the following  in mind:

In what land is the native language ‘Thought’? How about action, where in the world does ‘Action’ qualify you as a native speaker? If we asked you to show us on a map, better, on a globe, the country where all the signs on the highways and over the little shoppes are in ‘Emotion’?

Now the easy, hard part.

Imagine a reality grounded in these three ways of describing the world.

Allow us to take liberties with Alfred Korzybski’s famous admonition: The language is the territory.

Daunting? Sure

Doable? Damn straight.

Most useful takeaway from our short, little post? After accepting that what you experience (in the company of another person) is not necessarily quite the same for the two of you. Ask the question: What language are they speaking*

That is the secret to getting the most from our little personality theory.

*come on. everyone knows that you can recognize a foreign language without being able to speak it!