the Wakefield Doctrine

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

You know the (secretly) most difficult aspect of self-improving oneself?

Accepting the: change/improvement/’this is how I would be as a person’ that result.

Doesn’t matter what it is, if you have a certain ambition to become: more/better/’like-that’. Unless, that is, you’re a scott or a roger with a seriously deficient clarklike aspect, you probably have things (about your ownself) that you wish was…different.

The Wakefield Doctrine excels in its capacity to serve as a tool in the effort to improve one’s experience. Wanna be assertive? Study the scott. Think that the assured sociability of a roger is desirable? Have at it. (god knows there ain’t no small supply of them!)

Question for clarks reading along, lol*.

Why is it you try to ‘ne more like…’ and forget five seconds into the first interaction of your day?

What? oh yeah, the question at the start of the post!

The most difficult aspect of self-improvement efforts…in a word: acceptance.**

**trick answer!  ‘ja ja‘ (as Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia once wrote). The concept of acceptance is one of those jinn-in-the-bottle situations that, curiously enough, most cultures down through history make a point of warning people about, (well, mostly children as the warning is usually disguised as a fairy tale, fable or whatever). It’s a total lynch pin to the whole process.  But let’s stay in our context here. The stated value of the Wakefield Doctrine is to aid in one’s effort to:

“…improve how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.”

Secret key: “how we relate ourselves to…’

That is where acceptance becomes … a thing, To know oneself is the starting point. We, all of us, have multiple versions/editions/’you’re gonna love this book, just you see’ of our ownselfs. Accepting all of them is a starting point. (Did not say: approve of/hate/deny/’you got a problem with that’?.

Acceptance. First square. Big-ass game board.

Will stop now.

HEy! Mark your calendars, schedule your Muse, stock up on pharmaceuticals for the Six Sentence Story  bloghop’s  Poetry Slam! Next Thursday the 27th  Hosted by the Six Sentence Café and Bistro.  Slots remain open for written, audio’d …hell, video’d poem readage on the Stage at the Bistro. Way-open format, provided it conforms to Rule of Six. (Lat. poetae Sextiteria)

Check in with the Proprietors with questions and such: Chris or Mimi or Denise . They’ll totally hook you up.

* like there’d be a scott or a roger still reading.

Speaking of Posters!

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

the matter of secondary and tertiary aspects, briefly, hopefully succinctly and therefore, for the typical* Wakefield Doctrine Reader, useful

First:

Predominant worldviews, aka personality types:

• clarks (the Outsider) the person who relates to the world around them as would one who suspects they are different and, human nature being what it is, becomes wary of letting other know of this deficiency.
• scotts (the Predator) the ‘most natural’ of the three; pronounced prey drive, minimal need for introspection, lives to act with an emphasis on motion and aggression
• rogers (the Herd Member) the reason we have: culture (don’t judge, it’s a way relative accomplishment), technology because 2 + 2 is four with more certainty even than that which they ascribe to the ideal of the Right Way

Secondary aspects: since one has a predominant worldview, (and only one), that is a manifestation of the individual’s relationship with reality, the ‘other two’ remain, to a varying degree, an influence on a person’s perception of reality. Usually a secondary aspect is noticed in times of duress. If it offers a value that the individual can appreciate, it tends to be cultivated. A secondary or tertiary aspect cannot supplant or replace or otherwise have co-equal effect with the predominant aspect.

know why?

Because! Because this Doctrine system is not an assessment of self-reported inclinations, likes or dislikes. The Wakefield Doctrine is not a schema of observed preferences, tropisms or ‘rather do this than that’ in terms of an individual’s behavior.

The ‘personality type’ in the context of the Doctrine is simply a label identifying the social strategies, systemic behavioral adaptations based on the reality into which an infant finds themselfs at a very early age. In a sense, it is more accurate (but less fun) to say one is a mature, developed native to the reality of Outsiders, Predators and Herd Members. And, as such, act appropriately to the reality they experience on a personal, day-to-day basis.

This is why the likelihood of: “Hey! I got a strong secondary scottian aspect. I’ve seen me in action. I’m gonna practice all day/every day acting on impulse, pursuing prey and living in the here and now!! Then I’ll become a scott. Or, at very least some kind of hybrid.

No. No you won’t.

You will still wake up to a personal reality described (by this Wakefield Doctrine system) as that of: the Outsider/the Predator/the Herd Member.

You (dear Reader) currently have the perfect personality type.

…for the reality in which you grew up and developed and matured.

ya know?

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

so we’re about at the end of Summer, which can only mean one thing: school shirts.

As with most of this blog, we place less value on the certainty that what we write makes sense to any random Reader and all of it (value) on those who get it.

Unlike the vast majority of popular of general and special interest blogs, we rely on a certain quality of Reader.

Of course, from all reports, the blogosphere is not what it was back in 2009 when we wrote our first post.

It was a glorious time. A time of ideas and acceptance and the rogerian bloggers covered the landscape, as far as the eye could read.

but, we digress

in the earliest of Doctrine posts we spoke of people with a certain quality, call it intellectual adventurism. A self-confidence that encourages experimentation and embraces the odd and unusual.

As with most things Doctrine, (and implicitly one’s efforts to become fluent in the perceptual dialect of the world as experienced by three predominant worldviews (aka clarks/Outsiders, scotts/Predators and rogers/Herd Members), the more one learns, the more there is to see/experience.

But today the magic word is ‘school shirt’.

not for nothin’ but the Wakefield Doctrine is, when you cut out the fun (like who would want to do that?!?) is simply a metaphor, albeit a behavioral metaphor.

And god know, your Curator do loves them metaphors.

To the shirts (new) and you’ll be free to wander the earth (for today).

So the weather becomes humid. But the morning sky is a deep blue. The search for fun becomes increasingly desperate. Unspoken is the challenge: What Did You Do this Summer?

…and then the school shirt. Smelling of plastic, tissue paper rustling dryly and glinting, the pins. If you are too young, the command arrives, “Try one on. Let’s sit if if fits.”

The smell of industrial starch in the perfectly smooth fabric is part of the plan to distract you from that one last pin. As much as you shake out the shirt, the primary creases remain, the hidden serrated edge waiting for your second-of-the-Summer burn to come into range.

… next stop: grocery bags to be cut up into book covers.