the Wakefield Doctrine

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

While we don’t not subscribe to the notion that the beginning of a new year is the best place (or time) to devise a list of resolutions, under-the-supposed assumptions that the change in year allows a suspension of the (life-long) momentum of any number (and character) of habits (both good and bad) or indulgences (growing from childhood’s garden or adult random-roadside field) that magically produces a condition of blank-slate innocence and open-mindedness.

(If we did, then maybe we’d note that (parentheticals) are so first year blog writer and the Doctrine itself provides us with the simplest of tools to enhance and improve our stay on this plane).

… if we were inclined to indulge in a List of New(ish) Year Resolutions, it would have to include the usefulness of the Wakefield Doctrine in self-improving oneself. So, in a sense, you could be forgiven for thinking of this here Doctrine here, as an eternally-renewing resolution. But then again, consider what we most often cite as the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine:

...to allow us to better understand the world as the other person is experiencing it.

The keyword: translation.

The theme: accepting the ‘the relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up’ of ‘the other two’*

damn! still don’t got a RePrint and it’s quarter-of-real-world o’clock.

Here try this:

CRYSTAL

He sat down, a tripod of hands and butt, rejected his surroundings and turned an almost-deaf ear to the voice in his head.

‘Don’t worry,’ the voice said, every straight-A student at the bustop, to the boy with an armload of unread textbooks, “This is either a dream or that woman you called a post-menopausal-charlatan-who-didn’t-know-her-astral-body-from-a-hole-in-the-ground, cast a spell on you.”

Ignoring the voice, he looked around and regretted it immediately; all he saw was an inward-curving sky, as featureless as a newborn’s conscience. It hurt to look look around at something that insisted it was right there, just a second ago, yet he was more afraid to close his eyes.

There was second voice, ‘Hope is a crystal ball, you can believe in it, just don’t count on seeing where it starts or where it ends.”

Something changed, the world around him flattened into an array of solid walls forming a candle-lit room and he was now facing a woman across a round pool of green felt, “That’ll be five dollars,” she smiled, “And you’re welcome.”

Due us a solid and tell someone in your life to come and spend some time at this blog.

Tell ’em there’s this strange place where what they talk about is, like, on the edge of interesting most of the time and ‘hear-your-name’ at a social function compelling a certain part of the time. Serially.

* we are, all of us, possessed of one of the three predominant worldview (aka personality types). One designates our personal reality, the other two comprise a potential to relate to the world differently. You remember: ‘we all develop and live in one of the three personal realities but have the potential for the other two’

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

When last we met in Tuesday-as-memoir mode, we alluded to the power of the rogerian worldview in matters relating to popularity. Specifically writing and books and such.

Simply put, rogerian writers are more successful than clarklike or scottian authors.

(Wait for it…)

Success being defined as attracting the maximum number of Readers, viewers, attendees and followers. Quantity, not (necessarily) quality.

This is surely a perfect time to bring out a fundamental element of the Wakefield Doctrine. Frankly, if you’re a new Reader, will need this concept¹* to best understand our little personality theory.

First things first. As to the core concept that eliminates much confusion:

The Everything Rule: ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another’.

In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, this rule allows the entirely un-necessary, nay, the self-destructive balkanization of a novel and productive perspective on human nature. The Everything Rule reminds us that there is nothing in one of the three predominant worldviews that is exclusive relative to the other two.

Example: People, new to the Wakefield Doctrine, often will ask, “No matter how many times I ask him not to, my husband leaves the toilet seat up. Is that a scottian thing?”

No. It is not. Leaving the toilet seat up is not exclusive to those who relate to the world as does the Predator (scotts). But close!** How this peculiar ‘contrariness’ manifests in clarks and rogers is different, but definitely present. The key concept: how a behavior, predilection, tropism..whatever manifests in (an) individual is the product of their relationship to the world around them and the people who make it up.

Much more on the Everything Rule in future Tuesdays.

Lets end with one core concept and one old saying.

*The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral.*

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

Holy smoke!²

1. ok, here is where the fun of this series surely will be found. What we say and what we do and etc. et.al. is the product of our predominant worldview. easy concept, yes? so, in this little aside we see a primary characteristic of the clarklike predominant worldview and …and! we gain an insight into one who relates themselves to the world around them as does the Outsider. How cool is that?

* so as not to muddy the waters any more than necessary, this asterix to the footnote points out one of the better/worse qualities of clarks, vis á vis our interaction with others. Will leave a full explication for another Tuesday. (Hint: we are so terribly concerned with the feelings of others.)

** lol  We’ll let the more seasoned Readers explain to our newer Readers how that might make one laugh (Hint: part of the fun of the Doctrine is that it not only allows, it encourages, us to use our imagination. In this case, visual imagination. That’s all we’ll say.)