the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Let’s get started.

Full Disclosure: that should be ‘Let’s get re-started’.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. As a perspective, the only requirement is to be able (and willing) to accept that the world being experienced by a another person is, in all likelihood ,to a small, but quite real degree…different.

At the heart of our little personality theory is the relationship between the world and the individual.

And, seeing how you, the Reader, are obviously possessed of a certain flexible intellect, to this description we will elaborate: the perspective afforded by the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how a person relates themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up’.

There we go! Simple(st) of descriptions of the Wakefield Doctrine.

Seeing how we’re on such a roll and the keys on the keyboard are rising to meet our fingers. (lol … Old Irish blessing originated during the Great alphabet Famine of 1654), lets look at the three perspectives (relationships) of the Wakefield Doctrine:

1. the Outsider (clarks)
2. the Predator (scotts)
3. the Herd Members (rogers)

We are, all of us, born with the potential to relate to the world as one (and only one) of these three. However, we never lose the capability to relate to the world as do ‘the other two’. These potentials are referred to as secondary and tertiary aspects. If significant enough, it will make a scott appear rogerian, (at times, in certain circumstances) or, in our case, a clark act like a scott (at times and in certain circumstances).

This, (the effect of a significant secondary aspect), often leads to confusion among New Readers. Maybe they catch a roger sounding thoughtful to the point of empathizing or a clark being… pushy and in-any-available-face).

The cool thing about the Doctrine, especially for New Readers who are often overly-concerned with 1) ‘getting it right’ in the ‘which of the three are they’ challenge or b) determining their own predominant worldview, is that you can’t get this thing wrong.

Serially.

If you study the principles and learn the characteristics of each of the three, you will always, eventually, come back to the ‘true’ worldview. Thats because these personality types? They’re relationships not an aggregate of descriptions, total points on a questionnaire, the sum of an objective assessment that places a person (or you) in a category. One of three personality types indicated.

It, as we said at the top of this post, (for you speed-reading aka skimming-texts clarks out there), is all about: thinking how a person might deal with any situation/ what the person’s actions would likely be in response to/or how it feel to be….

(Our favorite ‘Pro-tip: Determining one’s predominant worldview: look at the person (or the mirror) and determine the ‘No fricken’ way’ (of the three). Now you have two. Side-by-each, like in the optometrist’s office, “How clear is this… Now, How about this?” The predominant worldview always ‘looks more in focus’. )

Enough for today.

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the four-times-monthly bloghop, the Ten Things of Thankful, aka the TToT. Established in the early pre-Spring of 1989, this bloghop is the creation of Lizzi R. But that’s not important now* What we did want to contribute to this week’s ‘hop is the story of the beginning of the TToT

We will preface this story with the statement: ‘…as we recall the events’. Of course, New Readers can be forgiven for asking, ‘What do you mean, ‘As you recall it?’ Either you remember it or you don’t! (For those not strangers to our little personality theory, yeah, go ahead, indulge in a little pride in having an insight into the world around us and the people who make it up that is not, nor likely ever to be, of wide circulation. You’ve earned inclusion to this gathering**.)

Our contribution to the TToT (those people, places, things and waypoints in life that have elicited the state of gratitude for this week):

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) work/occupation/business being such (real estate brokerage) that allows me maximum discretion in the use of my time. Not always a good thing, never entirely a bad thing. Like most of life, I suspect.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) (List Filler Alert!!! List Filler Alert!) Second to this bloghop, one of the elevated points in our virtual world week is the Six Sentence Story ‘hop and those who participate. (Which we will now provide a partial link-drop list: Mimi, D.Avery, Chris, Nick, Ford, Nicole, Keith, Frank, Carole ann, Liz,  Reena, Paul

7) Well, that was fairly labor-intensive. Seeing how currently our connectivity is somewhat diminished (not sure why or how) let’s give it up for the hostinae of this here bloghop here: Dyanne, Lisa, Kristi (host emerita) and Mimi

8) Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia, of course.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3  because life is made up of situations that, if we chose the path less satisfying, Rules can make easier, or failing that, more palatable

* ‘Airplane’, of course! We’ll be adding a compilation in the music vid below…

** what?!? who said ‘Kenneth Branagh doing the Eve of Saint Crispins Day speech?  comin’ right up, yo

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

That’s Bella! Phylis’s dog. (See grat 8)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week all are invited to write and share those experiences, encounters, recollections and passing-glimpses of times when the state of gratitude has touched one’s life and such. Being a ‘list format’ the standards kinda allow all sorts of expression.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (sine qua non, yo …sine qua non)

4) the virtual world and it’s denizens, imaginary, (including, but not limited to projections-of-one’s-higher-form, manifestation-of-one’s-denials and reg’lar people what own a computer and have an fairly-insatiable curiosity) or shadow-forms of a higher existence

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) rain (as local precipitations is currently manifesting) as opposed to the more historically-correct frozen water, aka snow, given the time-of-year and latitude and such

7) spring draws near

8) Referential Grat: As I was alpha to Ola, Phyllis was alpha to Bella. It is one of the truly remarkable relationships between two lifeforms.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3. From the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules motto: “guiding and excusing well-intentioned, if not hypo-skilled writers-to-be since 1947 with standards and rules of style that are infinitely adaptable and hilariously vague”.

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