the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Quick little post. Gots to try and come up with something for a Six Sentence Story by this evening. Though most of us post on Thursday, its alway fun when it can be linked in at Denise’s on Wednesday. Like finishing your term paper on Saturday afternoon rather than Sunday evening.

…but a couple of things. We sorta started talking about the Everything Rule in yesterday’s post. The rule was, in the magical way of the Doctrine, a response to an insufficiency in my presentation of the Wakefield Doctrine in the early days. New Readers easily got the idea that all of us are born with the potential to experience life and the world in three characteristic ways i.e. as Outsider(clarks), Predators(scotts) and Herd Members(rogers). And, as most of our time was spent describing each of these three personal realities, we didn’t think through any weaknesses (in our description).

As more people came and read, questions arose. Which was, like, totally, ‘How cool is this Doctrine thing?’ lol Anyway. While we did address the point that there is only one predominant worldview for any and all of us, as people started to apply the principles to their worlds, a fuzziness manifested. While we were always reminding Readers that the reality of one’s personal reality was quite…. real, it was easy to succumb to a certain Balkanization of the three predominant worldviews. Hence the reference, in yesterday’s post to people talking about behavior and qualities and traits and occupations as being exclusive to one of the three personality types.

The Everything Rule doesn’t say, ‘No, its not true that only scotts do a certain thing or rogers maintain a certain belief or clarks are always found in such-and-such occupation’. Rather is reinforces the idea of the reality of personal reality, suggesting we consider how a thing, (a job, a saying, an organization, whatever), manifests in these three different predominant worldviews. Being a carpenter, for example, is available to all three. Obviously. For a scott, what is referred to as rough carpentry/framing is often exhibited, while to a roger, (in a reality of rules and precision), carpentry often exhibits as what is referred to as ‘finish carpentry’. Both quite real and essential, one different from the other.

…clarks?, oh yeah. Well maybe walking around and talking to people about stuff, dabbling in fast food, boating and meteorology. Like that, ya know? (lol)

I mentioned ‘magical’ earlier in the post. Quite true if you knew how much of what is written about the Wakefield Doctrine ‘showed up’ as the typing progressed.

(Mimi commented yesterday to the effect that ‘Every post i haven’t read yet clears things a little more...’

am trying to find a post I haven’t read yet. More difficult that I would’ve thought, but here, one semi-random search … lets use the search term ‘forgotten’

Mimi! Dude! cha ching!

Full Disclosure: got like three pages of posts, started reading oldest first. Hit the one below, cause (given my current recovering from a cold), two words: Damn!

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‘…of opposites and differences’ the Wakefield Doctrine “and his hair was perfect!”

July 7, 2014

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

…beginner Readers?  you might want to skip this Post. It’s not that you wouldn’t understand today’s Post, (you would, if you are willing to trust your instinct enough and not worry about getting ‘the right answer’ and just go with what you think), it’s just that today we speak of aging and degrading, running down and getting old, losing teeth and growing fat, you know, the fun topics.

Two Questions (that are really three):

1. what happens when we get old or sick or injured or messed up…(way up)
2. which of ‘the other two’ is the hardest to ‘imitate’

This being the Wakefield Doctrine, naturally we will address the second question first.  Lets use real, clarklikelinear thinking and say, of the three, where are the polar opposites? lol…yeah!  clarks are capable of making that statement and,  …and! thinking that it is reasonable  to talk about polar opposites when dealing with a group of three.  Bring on the damn Venn Diagrams!!  god! I loves  me a good Venn Diagram!

Alright, here, try these Polar Opposites on for size:

1. clark and roger
2. scott and clark
3. roger and scott

so, what we’re saying here is that the above represents the most difficult, (the) nearly impossible one to imitate/act like for each of the three personality types. (i.e. it is most difficult for a clark to appreciate the worldview of a roger, it is damn near anathema for a scott to be comfortable in the personal reality of a clark and, for a roger to live as a scott, well, lets just say they would rather  do anything else than to to embrace the scottian worldview. Clear?

Great!  While you’re in this Doctrine mode of thinking* lets run at the first Question (which is building off the first Answer) and say:  if each of the three personality types decay, degrade, get chronically stressed out…grow old in a bad way**, then they will appear to those around them to be sliding into the worldview of:

1. clark (appears to be acting like a)  scott
2. scott sounds increasingly like a roger
3. roger somehow, it’s really weird, but for all the world appears to be thinking like a clark

Makes sense, right?  the lion (you know, scotts!!) loses too many teeth, the scar tissue from countless successful battles takes it’s toll, they will (tend to) become rogerian.  clarks…growing old without developing their self-assurance first, will become scottian…aggressiveness let loose only because they can’t remember why they should care about what others think  and rogers… they seem to have to the best (of all three worldviews), forgotten and left alone, they will dive into their memories, shedding the need to show the world the desirability of learning the Right Way to do Things and become content with appreciating the knowledge of the world around them.

There ya go!  When you’re out there this week, shopping for groceries, trying to hold on to your job, studying hard, thinking about the future, regretting the recent past, hoping to be happy, fearing being alone, taking the kids to swimming lessons and hating how you look in a bathing suit, working hard and praying that this time it will turn out different, being afraid of being satisfied, being satisfied with not wanting more and thinking/acting/feeling like one of us, remember: we all live in a reality that is personal to us and it corresponds to the world of the Outsider(clarks), the life of the Predator(scotts) and the world of the Herd Member(rogers) but, we all have within, the potential to see the world as ‘the other two’ are experiencing it.

 

 

 

* meaning… this is fun! don’t worry about it being ‘true’ in every single situation, don’t be concerned if it is logically consistent, science is art if you are creative enough in your approach

** go easy on the application of the ‘bad’… and the ‘grow old’ thing? instead think of the person you know is one type but seems to morph at times into another. better yet, consider the person you know who acts like they’re doing a bad imitation (of one of the three personality types)

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