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

So we were reading the Six Sentence Stories this week and, here on the Monday of a new year, was taken by Reena’s Six. While she writes most knowledgeably on matters of business and sundry issues like ethics at the intersection of Success and Survival in the business world, her Six this week resonated with a common theme here at the Doctrine.

The Past (good god! hunh! What is it good for? lol*)

While we are reminded by the Everything Rule that all three personality types manifest ‘The Past’ differently:

• clarks (the Outsider) ayiieee! Quick! What is a thing that embodies a combination of self-destructive temptation with a promise of redemption through the willingness to admit mistakes while insisting on a single version of events? lol clarks keep their Past like a grease-stained, dog-eared, over-sized issue of an out-of-date Chilton’s Repair Manual (and…and! more often than not, skim the instructions with a speed to make Evelyn Wood throw her book across the room.)
• scotts (the Predator) meh… the past? they don’t need no steeken past… but, if pressed (and the scott being questioned has a sufficiently strong secondary clarklike aspect) they might allow that their skills were born and honed in the past (aka Practice). In fact, we have it on good authority from a scott, namely, Glenn who, asked if he re-read or re-watched movies he enjoyed, said. ‘Why the fuck would I do that?’ Being creatures of the present, ‘Why the fuck indeed!’
• rogers (the Herd Members) ha! totally cool historical reference (not exactly Joe Pesci/Nicky Santoro in ‘Casino’ but close): “The past is prologue.” We will leave the Reader to do their own look-up.

so that should get us in the mood for a New year (or should that be a new Year?)

New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, specifically an additional perspective on life. The three personality types are a reflection (of one’s) relationship to the world around them and the people who make it up. So read and study and…. practice. The goal of the principles of this thing of ours is to be better able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

*there goes our last chance at being mistaken for serious academia What the hell… Edwin! Edwins Starr! Please state our auxiliary thesis, if you please!