What do you mean, “you have a good idea but haven’t started yet”? Countdown to the Wakefield Doctrine’s Friday the 13th Post-Writing Contest!

April 8, 2012 By 4 Comments

Hurry the hell up, write the thing and send in your best effort…no one will laugh! I personally guarantee it.1

So look around the house this morning, if there are no apostles or deities sitting at  your breakfast table, then why don’t you just send the kids out to play…do whatever you need to do to the Spouse/Significant Other2 and then get yourself some SABD3 and pick a fight with your blog4

Really, the thing about the Wakefield Doctrine (in general) and this blog (specifically), is that we are all here for the adventure, the entertainment, the challenge and even the self-development that has been a result of our efforts over the last 2 or 3 years that this blog has been on line. Granted the style of presentation is a bit…eclectic, eccentric and otherwise hard to figure out, but isn’t that the way it always goes?
When you look back on your life at the things you have done, all of the varied activities that fill your hours, weren’t most difficult to learn the basic skills? And only after getting past the ‘I don’t get how to do this! It’s not worth the trouble!” moment and committing to learning, then you found the real enjoyment that comes with practice. Hell, think about your friends, your wife/husband, girl/boy friends! I would be comfortable betting that if you remember the time before they became what they are, there were moments that you thought, ‘why the hell am I bothering? this person is a pain-in-ass, demanding and doesn’t make sense way too much‘.
So, yes we are saying that the Wakefield Doctrine is exactly like falling in love with your wife or your husband.  lol

But you’re here! So have some fun and enter the damn Contest!!

Rules Redux:

  • write a Post with the phrase  ’a dead balloon is a dead balloon’ in the Title
  • you can write about anything you want, you do not have to mention balloons or death or any possible qualities that they share in common
  • (if you are entering a Post-writing contest), then you probably have your own blog-like place,  send us a link to where your Post is published
  • write us an email or message us at ‘the FaceBook’ hell, you could even put it all in a Comment!
  • try to include something/anything about yourself that you want to see in the little ‘author blurb’ next to your Post
  • on Friday the 13th, we will do write a Post and it will  List the Titles and Authors (the Titles linked back to your site)
  • we will ask Readers to Comment and even vote!
  • the Winner will be announced on April 17th
  • the Winner will be picked based on the Comments of Readers (on April 13th) and be selected by the (secret) judge.5

All of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine extend to all of you there ( in the “real” world), best/appropriate wishes that the re-birth process that you choose to commemorate at this time of year comes true, at least one more time. However, we suggest that you make this the last year that you decide the symbolic re-birth of your favorite deity is the highest form of spiritual expression. Contrary to what many say, you are not immortal and you should not live your life as if you are, this will only lead to self-centeredness, short-sightedness and a lack of commitment to your acts as you go through your day.

And seeing that this is a time of celebration of re-birth and triumph over death, write us a Comment so that next Easter’s bonnet will have Wakefield Doctrine written on it! How cool will that be!

 

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1) I can say that because I am not only a clark, but I am also the Moderator of Comments here, so don’t worry…there will be no laughing at Contest Entries…

2) yes, including that look do you want to win this thing or not?

3) ask the Progenitor roger

4) totally love (that statement) attributed to Jack White when asked about his approach to song writing, “I just get a guitar and pick a fight with it”

5) the (secret) judge, may or may not be a Friend of the Doctrine but two things will be true: a) they will not be me and 2) they will not be a Contestant in the Contest. (hell, we might even have more than one of them)

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Saturday and the Wakefield Doctrine a theory of personality you can sink your teeth into

April 7, 2012 By 2 Comments

 

A Scotsman, an Englishman and an Irishman are sitting in a bar in New York reminiscing about home.
“Back in me pub in Glasgow,” brags the Scotsman, “fer every four pints of stout I order, they give me one fer free!”
“In me pub in London,” says the Englishman,”I pay fer two pint’s o’ Guiness and they give me a third one free!”
“That’s nuthin’” says the Irishman, “Im my pub back in Dublin, you walk up to the bar, they give the first pint fer free, the second pint fer free, the third pint fer free — and then they take you upstairs and you have sex for FREE!”
“Is that true?” asks the Scotsman. “Has that really happened to you?”
“Well, no,” says the Irishman, “but it happens to me sister all the time!”

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!  This thing is so efficacious it’ll make you puke.  No, really!  the Wakefield Doctrine does everything those other personality type idiots claim to be able to do, except that this is the real deal. I wouldn’t lie to you.  Now those other  people who write these Posts, them guys say ‘you got to understand this, and you need to appreciate that…fuck that.  They’re right  and  it will work like they say, but that don’t mean nothin, if you don’t use it right and have fun, whats the point?. But… if you do use it right, you will have the edge on everyone around you right now and everyone you run into later on…unless you find someone who already knows about those Wakefield Doctrine people,  don’t worry about nothing, you won’t, cause they’re probably sitting in front of a computer somewhere indoors.

What the hell good is something if it doesn’t: a) get you more of what you want, b) let you take less of what you don’t want or c) get you laid? Huh? What!

I was such an ugly kid that when I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio.

(Rodney Dangerfield)

But you better pay attention…this Doctrine thing is good, you need it and we have it…pretty simple, isn’t it?

Real quick:

  • you see people the way that you do, the way that they are  (for you…)
  • people see you the way that they have to see you, and that’s because of the way they are…
  • the trick is…you are both right
  • the Wakefield Doctrine lets you know how the other person thinks that the world works…maybe the same (as you) and maybe different
  • if you know how they think the world works that gives you an edge over them, ’cause they don’t know that there are other ways to see things…like the leopard can change his spots.
  • …and the best part is, chances are, they don’t know why you know what you know…they think you believe them!

So there ya go. The Wakefield Doctrine. good tool…fun thing to do and a whole world of people who will never see it coming.  Have fun!

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Hey! where are the videos?! today’s Friday….where are the videos? the Wakefield Doctrine (sort of a good Friday!)

April 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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

I spoke to the progenitor roger about Thursday’s Post and he actually, (well, maybe accidentally) complimented us on the writing!
Well…what I actually said was, “hey, that Post, did it sound at all rogerian to you” and he said, “no, not in the slightest”.
We talked a bit about the object of the Post, i.e. my effort to write from the perspective of my rogerian aspect. And in all fairness, I did state that even though we all have the capacity to see the world as ‘the other two would’*, the fact of the matter is that he (roger) has spent a lifetime practicing being a roger, while even though I have access to the worldview of a roger,  I simply haven’t had the chance to practice. (being a roger).  At this point the compliment appeared, where roger said,  ”well, I have to admit that when I first read the Post I thought it was a guest Writer or something”.

We will choose to view this as an indication that we are using the Wakefield Doctrine as an effective tool for personal self-development.

Any….way, we were talking about the pre-pre-pre-production plans for the movie  ’the Wakefield Doctrine ‘the early years‘ and roger said, in effect, that he was getting tired of seeing James Spader  held up as an example of a roger.
To which, I replied, ‘well, we can go get William Hurt (back when he had hair) or Alex Baldwin (when he wasn’t fat) or even….” I was interrupted by roger trying to say,  ”hey that’s all not valid, those are actors”

Back in the early days of this blog,  the question of actors and actresses and the personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine was addressed. It was clear to us that the best way to illustrate what we meant by a scottian personality or a rogerian personality,  was to find examples of the personality types in public figures.  In other words, a person that everyone will either know already or can look up easily.
And so we did. Not only did we identify famous people that were clearly clarks, scotts and rogers, we found examples of people acting like clarks and scotts and rogers in movie roles. And we used these clips to show people acting so much like the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, that  you would think the scriptwriter read our blog!
The examples we have found to post are so good that we will put them below here (you have to go into the Post and play the vids) …

a scott and a clark   (Robert DeNiro and David Caruso)

a scott and a roger  (Jack Nicholson and James Spader)

Cool, eh?

But the question still should be answered, the question that the Progenitor roger almost got to ask…”that’s not the person, that’s the role!”  To which we reply, maybe one role one time, but follow an actor’s career and the roles they play and you will see a clark or a scott or a roger playing a role that would appear to be a clark or a scott or a roger. Look at the actors in interviews… the personality type is there.  Case-in-point, Robert DeNiro in two of the above film clips… do you think the Director said, “Alright, Bob gimme something with self-effacement and retiring, yet still be able to maintain a long-term friendship  with a raging lunatic”.  No, I think it is safe to say that if you met Mr. DeNiro in a restaurant you would think, ‘jeez, what a clark!’

 

Following is a music video that took me hours to identify, because it was stuck in my head this morning and all I ‘had’ was that it was Stevie Wonder  and there was a line about ‘bet your something something ‘  ( ended up  listening to every cut on  Talking Book and Songs of Life)

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* for any new Readers, this statement about ‘the other two’? It refers to a basic tenet of the Wakefield Doctrine, that is, we are all born with the capacity, the potential, the capability of experiencing the world around us in one of three characteristic ways: the  world of the clark, the worldview of the scott and the reality of the roger. At an early age, we all settle for one of these three and that becomes our ‘predominant’ worldview… ‘personality type’.  But we always have the other two as potentials.
Look at it this way, my predominant worldview is that of a clark, so I say ‘I am a clark‘ (but) I can also experience the world as a scott or a roger. We sometimes refer to these other two as ‘aspects’… so you might say, for example,  hey! you’re a clark with a secondary scottian aspect and a tertiary rogerian aspect.  And the person next to you might say, “What the hell are you talking about?”(and that, is your opening…good luck!)

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Thursday Morning, Wakefield Doctrine, one of the three personality types… it should all be self-explanatory

April 5, 2012 By 4 Comments

 

The Wakefield Doctrine here. Hello. Happy to see so many smiling faces on the other side of the screen! No, I can’t really see anyone out there, but I know that you are there, the glass keeps fogging up!  Must be the scotts getting themselves worked up over the thought of something new to chase.  Sorry to disappoint, nothing here to chase, but lots of news and insider information.
Did you know that the original scott, was and still is, an accomplished artist? He used to draw these cartoon things back when we were all in the college dorm. Well, he and the progenitor clark were in the college dorm, I was just visiting. Although eventually he, scott that is moved out of the dorm and we found a place to live for the band that he was in at the time. So long ago that all was.

Before you get any more involved with this Post, I need to tell you a secret. This Post is trying to ‘sound like’ it was written by a roger, but it’s that clark  up to another one of his tricks! So don’t be fooled. Or maybe you should pretend to be fooled and we can all see how far he is willing to go to push this jalopy farther down the road. So play along.

In any event, the original progenitors or better to say the original three friends whose names are used in the title of this personality theory by the numbers were real, living, breathing, sometimes shouting friends. You should have been there! Or there should be a way to go back and do a flashback episode of the beginnings of this theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. We would have to make a choice, if we were going to try that. Do you want to have like, black and white original-looking film clips? Like Ken Burns goes to RIC?  All jumpy and un-steady camera, edits that make no sense… scenes that hold way too long while a voice that sounds like a guy pretending to be Chip Monck  does the narration.  We could even have letters to home  no wait!   phone calls…it would have to be phone calls to each other because no one wrote letters in the 60′s and 70′s. Heck, in the 60′s and 70′s there were only pay phones in the dorm, in the drugstore and in those superman phones booths with the folding doors!  ( “hey, ralph broke down with all the equipment in the back! get your parents car we have to get this stuff out of here!”)

Or the other approach would be to do a modern version of the story with real actors and modern production techniques.  Nah, that wouldn’t work…so much of the story of the Wakefield Doctrine namesakes has to do with and is embedded in the mid 20th would never work. How do you convey the sense of groundless hope,  enthusiasm without restraints? mindless optimism and trust that you are on the right path for your life even when you don’t even know about the concept of ‘looking up ahead’?  the original scott? total energy, enthusiasm, talent, live now! the roger? confident, talented, able happy to to trust the future to what he believed he knew about the world, the clark in all this? running…running to stay ahead of something, running to get to something running because there was no world around him that made sense and he was trapped by the idea that it all was supposed to make sense.

Go figure.

(But the movie of clark and scott and roger go to college? totally like the idea)

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Mid-Week Report: the Wakefield Doctrine can even tell you which is your Favorite Day of the Week!

April 4, 2012 By 1 Comment

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

First Annual Wakefield Doctrine Post-writing Contest Update: we expect to Post our first Contest Entries by week’s end.

(For Readers just joining us), the Contest is open to all who would write a Post with the phrase, ‘a dead balloon is a dead balloon‘ in the Title.  This Contest is open to all who want to enter, as long as you send us your info and (the link to) your Entry no later than April 13th.
The Grand Prize is a DVD of ‘Tin Man’  and will be sent to the Post that is voted by Readers ( and secretly judged by the secret judge) to be most: funny/clever/interesting/amusing and/or significantly cool.

Did you know that with the Wakefield Doctrine you can understand why the people in  your life act the way that they do?
You know what we mean, that behavior that leaves you saying to yourself, ‘Now why on earth would they feel it necessary to say a thing like that?’ or how sometimes after going out to some social affair with your boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband and as you drive home you keep thinking. “I really thought I knew them better than that!’

Well, those are the kinds of situations that happen to us in relationships, all the damn time. And depending on our own personalities, we either try to ignore it or get into a fight over it or even feel bad as if it were, somehow, our fault…our responsibility. If you are tired of feeling this way or want to maybe do something about not having to feel this way, then the Wakefield Doctrine can help! Do one or more of the following:

  1. Read this blog until you understand how the Wakefield Doctrine can help you
  2. Write us a Comment and demand to know how we think we can make such extravagant and un-substantiated claims
  3. Grab the person who is causing you all this grief, sit them in front of a computer open to this Post…right now if you can!
  4. “Hey! you! you are causing aggravation to a person who has come to the Wakefield Doctrine for help! Listen to us…Stop it!  Now!  (read the following step)“
  5. “Now put that other person in front of the computer you are reading this on…now! and do not try to go to another site”.
  6. OK, you are on your way to understanding the people in your life, especially the person you just made get up from the computer ( the one who is now saying, “What are they saying about me! It better not be something bad“! Ignore that and read the next two steps.
  7. The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding why people act the way that they do, it is fun and it works… (“tell them you are almost done here….and that we think they are really great, but misunderstand people”)
  8. With the Wakefield Doctrine, you will not only understand the people in your lives but you will understand yourself way better than you have ever before….(“…almost done, tell them we are almost done“)
  9. There is only one thing about the Doctrine that you need to know, if you want to deal with the people in your life…
  10. the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them…. ( “OK put that other person in front of the computer and write us a Comment….later, after they have left”)
  11. “Hey, you are really alright…what?  no, no they think the world of you and they totally know that you have a tough time getting the people around you to understand just how hard it can be! We know that, and believe it or not, they know that…but you gotta do us a favor… encourage them to come back to this blog and read it everyday. Will you do that for us?  Great! We knew we could count on you!!  Now put that other person back in front of this computer…oh, one more thing   the Wakefield Doctrine has hats and if you write a Comment, we might send you one! Really… now get up and give your seat back to them“.
  12. …all set!  Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

 

 

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