the Wakefield Doctrine

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

How messed up is this? My biggest concern this early Tuesday morning is, ‘is that the correct use of commas in a sentence, or am I just getting a little too caught up with the grammar-passion’?

lol…

So, quick Tuesday Post. And then out into the world for a day of, (hopefully), ‘one last chance’.

Topic 1: the use of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool to enhance life and it’s endless challenge to get off the ground (or, as we clarks say, ‘out of my head and into the world’) and live. Stating it this way, always gives me a fresh sense of pre-optimism*, as it’s accepted (here at the Doctrine) that ambition, realistic or not, is a hallmark of those who exhibit the traits of the clarklike personality type. Well, that didn’t exactly convince us that there’s a great world of exciting ideas just waiting for us to get out of bed and run after them, did it? No. No, it did not.

But the truth of the matter is that using the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine in order to gain one more, additional perspective on the world, the people we interact with in the course of the day today, and ultimately, ourselves is both fun, exciting and very, very helpful. Try it. Look at the people around you today, infer, (on the basis of: how they act, how loud and forceful their voices are, what seems to attract their attention, their apparent emotional state and how-many-non-naturally-occuring-colors-have-they-dyed-their hair), how that person is relating themselves to the world around them. It will be one of three ways:

1. as an Outsider would (clark): they seemingly have a marginal investment in whatever it is they’re involved in, (this, of course, is a false impression. not your fault, even clarks sometimes mistake the hedging of emotional bets, for ‘just not giving a shit’. clarks do, in fact, give a shit. they’re just convinced that if they’re are too upfront/outfront, about their interest, they’ll get disqualified, (a concept that’s alien-to-the-point-of-non-understandable to those of the scottian and rogerian worldviews)
2. as Predator (scott): the world is, in essence and in fact, a hostile, yet not evil world. it’s just the world. a world, (and, for our purposes here, a day today), in which there are opportunities and there are threats, prey and larger predators and action, right-here-and-right-now action, that is the only sane response. for a scott, to live is to act, in acting they live the only worthwhile life
3. Herd Member (roger): all the world’s a stage and everyone has access to a script, although, following it, unfortunately, seems to be quite optional. rogers live in a world that’s quantifiable and, with enough effort, totally knowable. they float in a sea of emotion and all things are connected.
4. (btw: we all are born with the potential to experience the world in any of these three ways, but, all of us find ourselfs living in only one of them. that being said, we retain the ‘other two’ worldviews. that’s where the Wakefield Doctrine is semi-unique in the matter of self-improving oneself. if you want to improve yourself, you need not be concerned with acquiring anything new, all you need do is find, within yourself, those skills that you would have developed, had you grown up in one of the ‘other two’ personal realities.**)

Topic 2: Chapter 3 of ‘Almira’ is on the newsstands! It’s available to read on wordpress, but I also have it on jukepop as well. If you don’t mind having to enter an email when you get there, they allow a sequential layout (and ease of access to Chapters, once we get this boat moving, that wordpress does not permit), plus ….plus!! you get to vote for the story!  In any event, we learn more about our protagonist-wannabe, Dorothy Gale. And, not to give anything away, because of her determination to interact with Almira Gulch, we will soon be learning much more about that ‘really-I-had-no-idea’ character in our story. We just getting started!

Topic 3: hey! our Friend Cynthia is doing some very cool work over at ‘the ‘tude’ with meditation and such. A simple (and therefore almost always underestimated approach to self-improvement) topic in the hands of someone who has the gift of teaching is always a pleasure to read. Go there, tell her the Doctrine sent ya.

That’s it for today.

*regular Readers of this blog will recall that, for those of us living in the reality of the Outsider (aka clarks), ‘hope’ is a bit of a dirty word.

**hey! I’d forgotten the fun of writing a post in a manner comparable to rummaging through a box of saved stuff… eventually, without needing to know what you were looking, you find the thing that you currently need! In this case, it was the point: the Wakefield Doctrine, as a personality theory, maintains that our personality type, (clark, scott or roger), is simply that style that is most appropriate and effective in dealing with the reality that we’re living in, and that the reality is, well, real! We don’t need to ask people about their interests and appetites and secret urges, we just need to get a look at the world as they are experiencing it and everything else follows! And, for the self-improvement piece, I just need to accept the fact that I have, as a native, if not practiced, ability to chase and hunt prey and hug and emote with the best of ’em.  Pretty simple, isn’t it?