Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Two Gold Stars today: a) to whoever shouted out, ‘Ya shoulda been doin’ that Trademark shit from the second post here!’ and 2) ‘Too bad your tertiary rogerian aspects is so weak!!! and c) ‘Starting with that 2 answers schtick’
Be that as it may. At least the phrase/name, ‘the Wakefield Doctrine’ is somewhat protected.
But, as often happens, this warm-up to a RePrint has triggered a thought as to a useful topic.
So I was talking to a scottian friend last week. (New Readers? There is a certain affinity that exists between male clarks and scottian females that is quite instructive and useful. It might even have an inference in today’s discussion. But, if you want to know more, you can either do like everyone else and read a buncha posts or write in a Comment your question. Maybe we’ll answer it.)
The topic we ended up discussing* was the Wakefield Doctrine’s value in the matter of self-improvement. This, btw, was a higher frequency topic in the early years. We enjoy the fact that, from last week’s conversation, it remains as pertinent as it was back in the early years.
So, she, (my friend), said something to the effect “So-and-so is going through a difficult time. I wish I had her capacity to leave the future to itself as she is, I’d be stressed out as hell trying to do something.”
We agreed with her. Such is the nature of our scottian brethren. But that choice of words triggered my response: ‘If you want those qualities, you must start with realizing that you already have them. It’s just a matter of accepting them’.
the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we, all of us, grow up and develop our ‘personality types’ in response and reflection of our personal reality. Wether we find ourselfs in the reality of the Outsider (clarks), the world of the Predator (scotts) or the life of the Herd Member (rogers) doesn’t matter. We practice and refine the social strategies suited to our world. We call this our predominant worldview. In a cool sense, we say, your personality type is perfect! For the world that you grew up in. An Outsider doesn’t benefit from moving fast, they want to avoid immediate attention. A Predator does not succeed by stopping (frequently) to introspect on the reason they are chasing this Prey at this Moment. The Herd Member does not need to surprise anyone with their opinion on this or that, they, (everyone else), are already on the alert for a forthcoming insight on the efficacy of a given action.
The thing of it is: while we have one predominant worldview, ‘the other two’ are always there. Dormat** Discrete** Deferential**
(lol)
Gotta wrap this up… The cool thing the Wakefield Doctrine offers to those who would self-improve themselves is that, no matter what the: ‘improvement’/’I-really-want-to-be-able-to’/’Why-can’t-I-be-more-like’ we do not need to learn it. We have it within ourselves already. This is huge. Most times, people be, ‘Sure you can do that. I don’t have a clue how you could do it. I’m not likely to learn that anytime soon. I’ve been this way my whole life.’
Well. You’ve had the potential to relate yourself to the world around you as would a clark/scott/roger all along. You just haven’t practiced. (As, see above, is quite appropriate.)
… now, we do realize that scotts and rogers are pretty much good enough at what they do to not to need a Wakefield Doctrine Self-Improvement Program.
Thing of it is, if you’re you’re a scott or a roger and you’re still here, guess what? Your secondary aspect is clarklike. And, being that, a part of you are thinking: ‘Ya know, if we took this to heart, maybe we’d have an edge’ or ‘Those Doctrine people do seem to have something… besides, change a couple of nouns…who’s to know?’
There you have it. The Wakefield Doctrine Guide to Totally Fun and Efficacious Self-Development. Imagine for a second, your relationship to the world around you and the people who make it up is that of:
- the Outsider (clarks)
- the Predator (scotts)
- the Herd Member (rogers)
…ever thang else will take care of itself.
*(lol Three Gold Stars if you’re a New Reader and you just shouted, ‘The fricken Doctrine! What else!?!?)
** Doctrine jokes from way back… ask the old Reader next to you
’cause of the ‘joke’ ‘maybe we’ll answer your comment’ the following:
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