Cyndi | the Wakefield Doctrine

Being a clark has its perks: you’re creative! This is a photo of tiny budding leaves from a red Rhode Island rose bush in my yard.

I want to thank Clark for giving me an opportunity to guest-post.

I enjoy being a Friend of the Wakefield Doctrine and always look forward to reading all Wakefield Doctrine posts. They afford me the opportunity to learn more about clarks, scotts and rogers and increase my understanding of the world around me.

From the moment I discovered the Wakefield Doctrine, I was hooked. I figured out I was a clark almost immediately . Being a clark is precisely why I enjoy reading the Wakefield Doctrine so much.

So what’s it like being a clark according to the Wakefield Doctrine?

It’s validating. According to the Wakefield Doctrine, I’m supposed to daydream.

It’s full of great information. For the clark personality type, they like learning for learning’s sake. That’s great because I need an entire room to house all my books and files in my house. Let’s not talk about all the bookmarks I have on my browser for sites that feed me more information that I ever thought was possible.

I “think” all the time. I can’t help it. At the Wakefield Doctrine, I’m in good company. I’ve met so many other clarks who need to think, too, and can’t turn off that voice in the head.

Being an outsider is normal. With every new post, I realize that it’s completely acceptable for a clark to be not part of the herd. For once, I belong.

It makes me comfortable in my own skin. Don’t people like that make you slightly crazy? How they can be so comfortable with the likes of themselves? Maybe it’s age and not the Wakefield Doctrine at all, but since becoming a regular reader, I understand that when I deal with certain people, they’re going to be emotional (the rogers) and prone to doing things – action – (the scotts) and I can just sit on the sofa in the corner and get lost in my thoughts.

The scotts and rogers may think of clarks as slightly strange, but knowing that it’s who I am, that I can’t change and must keep thinking, I’m more comfortable with the idea that people don’t have to “get me” for me to be myself.

To be sure, the part about “being myself” got easier after I digested information from the Wakefield Doctrine. Before, I would try harder to fit in (okay not really…I’d just pretend). I’d have an internal dialogue going on in my head: don’t say that, act quiet, you’re talking too much, you’re too stoical, you’re being weird. That dialogue would get rather difficult to keep up with such that in my attempts to turn it off, I’d really look like I was talking to myself. Somehow, the Wakefield Doctrine – which is naturally very appealing to clarks – affirms that there is a whole segment (though a minority) of society that is like-minded in the same way. How refreshing.

The thing about the Wakefield Doctrine, though, is that you always have the potential to learn something new.

In fact, I participated in the last Saturday night call-in and up until that phone call, I thought I was a clark-roger as opposed to a clark-scott for the secondary perspective of my personality. I thought I could be part of a herd mentality if I wanted to, right? But then I found out that the fact that I’m aware that I don’t conform – having a blueberry colored house with a pink porch might be a giveaway – is a dead ringer for not being a roger. And since I have a scottian secondary aspect, if I am ever backed into a corner, the scottian perspective comes out and it’s not pretty. Reaction (a hallmark for scotts) takes over.

That’s kind of funny, too, because those rare times when I lose my temper really grab people’s attention. It happens once every few years – at least for me. I have a lot of patience, but when my frustration builds up, watch out!

Who knew that that is a clark–scott personality trait?

And I’m definitely not wired to be one of the herd.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a great place for scotts and rogers, too. It stands to reason that we all can benefit because it helps us to relate ourselves to the world around out there – not how we relate to the world, as Clark would say.

Now that I’ve shared so much about the inner-workings of my thought-process (yet another clark-like characteristic), I will graciously close this post with:

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

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