stodgy? slow and un-exciting Interviewer??! …the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Morning Serial

January 28, 2012 By 1 Comment

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

 

So you think we don’t know how to “kick” “loose” around here at the Wakefield Doctrine, huh?  Is that what you think? Well, I must take exception with that characterization  ( WTF!! stop talking, send the clark back to work…bring on the movie!! )

Well, it may not be Road Runner cartoons with Coco Puffs al fresco, but here is our newest Feature*  the Wakefield Doctrine  Saturday Morning Serial!!

 

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*motto: we will just keeping putting stuff up there until they give up and start following the Doctrine

 

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…if you could change one thing about yourself…right now! would you? the Wakefield Doctrine’s system of self-improvement

January 23, 2012 By 12 Comments

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding people and their ‘personalities’.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding ourselves and our ‘personalities’.
The Wakefield Doctrine is unique and useful, fun and annoying.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience life in one of three characteristic worldviews: the world of the outsider, the world of the predator and the world of the herd member. The worldview that we choose to experience determines our ‘personality type’, not a making up a List of behaviors/Likes/phobias.
The goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is to enable us, through observation of another’s actions, to infer the worldview of the other person. Know their reality, know their personality.

There are two immediate benefits:

  1. we not only understand the ‘why’ of the person’s behavior, but we are able to predict their future behavior
  2. by understanding the nature of the world we ourselves experience, we are then able to see our strengths and our weaknesses much, much more clearly

Finally, the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the idea that while we all ‘choose’ one of the three worldviews to live our lives in, we never lose the capability to live in the world of the ‘other two’ worldviews.  It is this that give us the most effective tool for self-development, for self-improvement.
For example, if I am a clark and I desire to become a more effective ‘public speaker’,  then I need only to take advantage of the fact that I have the capacity to live in (and therefore) act appropriately in the world of scotts. The energy, the drive, the directness that make scotts very good public speakers is within me. All I have to do is call it out.

 

So, hey! Monday Morning Gossip and Goodies:

  • Great Saturday Night Drive!
  • Claire and Molly have been way, too way busy!  Claire, in part because besides writing Comments here and Posts on her own blog,  she is also now ‘going as a Student to the school there’.  (Best ask DS#1 or the roger) and Molly  welll! Molly is increasingly adding an element of elegant reserve to our Saturday Night conversations which is providing the grounding that forms a perfect backdrop for the energetic input of our more scottian participants …nice!
  • …heard from Nell Rose over the weekend (she is well and sends her best and will surely be talking to us in a Video Friday in the near future..)
  • ‘KH has started to hand Downspring glenn’s ass to him on scrabble more and more ( it’s a scottian thing…not a bad thing…better ask one of them)
  • DS#1 continues to give a voice to the Doctrine that is more and more useful to the newer Readers! (“…oh! so that is what that Post was trying to convey! …why the hell didn’t he just say that! lol  thanks DS” )
  • the roger sits and watches, waits and knows that there will come a moment when the reassuring sound of the herd grows around the Doctrine blog and he will step and say,  …”what?  no I won’t and you can’t make me!”

So tell all your damn friends to come and see us here at the Doctrine and we might even send you a hat (for your damn head).

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the Wakefield Doctrine, three personality types, self-improvement and questions, questions, questions!

January 21, 2012 By 6 Comments

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

Yes, we do ‘have the weekend off’ but you know how it is… a self-improvement system as unique and effective and fun as the Wakefield Doctrine,  this stuff is not gonna type itself!
Speaking of ‘typing itself‘, most of the reason for today’s Post is the interesting effects on the Wakefield Doctrine being exerted by our newest FOTDs  Molly and Claire. Both people who came to us just last year, (and as predicted) they are people with an exceptional level of flexible intelligence‘ so they grasped the basic principles (of our little Doctrine),  straight off and have been making trouble ever since! But good trouble! By this we mean that they have questions, good questions, fun questions, aggravating questions, insightful questions and most of all, questions about aspects of the Wakefield Doctrine that we have not paid much attention to, at least up to now. To give you a better sense of what we mean by asking good, productive questions,  consider the two topics raised,  in the form of a well-intended question            ( …”oh clark, you know how you wrote that the Doctrine indicates…welll  I was just wondering”) …eeiyyeee!

Molly: ( during last week’s Saturday Night Drive ) …“Is is possible for a person to decide to change from one (predominant) type to another? Let’s say a person was a clark until they were about 12 or 13 and then decided to become a roger?”

Claire: (chatting on ‘the FaceBrick’)  ”..A quick – really quick – note on my part: this is probably the reason I bring my mini laptop at school when I know I have an hour recess and then write of what I observe (mostly the youngsters) and perhaps this might give us (at the doctrine) a thread to follow when it comes to these youngsters and others all over the world ”

Damn good questions!  Fortunately for us DS#1 and Ms AKH and the roger are around to see that these questions are converted from,  ”What? What do you need to know that for?!” to “that would be a totally interesting aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine to (further) explore and develop, when can you start?”

…so look for Posts over at the girlie and Three Personalities (‘KH’s place) as well as at Claire and Molly’s sites.

In the meantime, the briefest of Overviews on the aforementioned Questions:

  • the main line of inquiry for this Question was simply: what were the circumstances of the persons life surrounding the point of ‘switching’? The conversation (during the Drive) seemed to focus on trying to determine if this person was ‘a clark successfully acting like a roger’ or was this (now) ‘a roger who had spent their life up to that point as a clark?’ This question is central to one of the primary benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine, i.e. it’s use as a tool for self-development. Since we all retain the ‘capability’ to experience the world of the ‘other two’ personality types, the current thinking is that one should be able to have access to all of the strengths (and weaknesses!) of the two non-dominant personality types. This is, of course, the premier advantage of the Doctrine over most other systems for self development, i.e. to augment one’s personality as opposed to replacing one characteristic with another
  • in the realm of identifying the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, Claire’s concern is quite useful in developing a higher level of skill (at this identification) than is required in day-to-day Doctrine uses. The ‘short list’ of characteristics by which you can infer the personality type of another person still applies: clarks: posture  scotts: eyes and rogers:  pronouns

 

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Video Friday! Episode 2!! the Wakefield Doctrine (wherein we reflect upon the significance and importance of the new Readers and participants in this) personality-theory!

January 13, 2012 By 2 Comments

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Lets just go right to the Video!

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That was fun! Hey, you know what the hardest part about writing these Posts is, at least lately?  Writing from a rogerian point of view.1 We know what it should ‘look like’, we know how the words should ‘read’, we have even had discussions on Saturday Night Drives about the ‘shape and tone’ of the rogerian style. But it is a lot like learning a new language. At first you memorize the words and common phrases and practice pronunciation. Then you begin to form whole thoughts and complete sentences (in this new language), finally you either get everyone in your language class to agree to speak only this language, or (better yet) you go to the country where they speak the language and try to get through a day.2

In any event, we will not be going into a long discussion of the challenge of writing in the rogerian language. For now we will direct your attention to Comments from the Progenitor roger, and DownSpring Phyllis (in the previous Post) and anything you will find on the Secessionist Rag, or mostly teachable. Those are written in the rogerian style. We bring this up as we are going to be making a concerted effort to bring in some (new) rogerian readers, or better I say, we will try to get the rogerian Readers out there to get more active with this Doctrine thing.

To that end, let me ask the question: Is there any interest to either: a) modifying the times of the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive or 2) adding another ‘time slot’ doing an additional ‘call in’ show? We could do a Sunday morning or afternoon (which might be useful to our more time-zone challenged Readers). Just wanted to get the idea out there! Let us know your thoughts/impulses/feelings.

 

(cool, vintage music video:  only Hendrix could do a line like “…carnival traffic noise” and get away with it!)

 

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1)  not as concerned with the language of scotts, mostly Hey! Fuck! come over here and ‘hey, pull my finger’ Mostly the written language of the scott is as the spoken language, very direct: noun-verb-object.  Pretty simple, isn’t it?

2)  people who actually do learn or teach foreign languages are invited to add to modify this description (of the learning process) apologies to any Rosette Stoners who may take offence at my simplification of an arduous and complex process.  (danke)

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new blogs, old friends, three personality types all in search of a Title: the Wakefield Doctrine

January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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

Hey!  Look who’s back in town*!

Mel Thompson creator of 'the Spautula in the Wilderness' and 'Mostly Teachable' wearing his Wakefield Doctrine hat (on his damn head)

I was out one day a few weeks ago,  surfing through certain areas of the internet,  I think I was  ’following-back’  a twitter or a tweet or whatever the hell you call it and I came to a blogsite with an unusual name:  Mostly Teachable.
This was a little site with a very simple layout, consisting of a Title (with comic icon) a  Post and a ‘byline’. Intrigued I read the Post and thought to myself, ‘good stuff’.  After reading the Post, I glanced at the byline by  Mel Thompson!
As Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine may recall, Mel retired ‘the Spatula’ last Spring in order to pursue other priorities (mostly involving running through the streets of “Michigan” and otherwise focusing efforts on job/career concerns).  While we all applauded Mel’s running ambitions ( in particular the 22,880 yard dash!) we all hated to see  the Spatula close down.

Well, good news to start the New Year!

We welcome Mel (and Mostly Teachable ) back to the Wakefield Doctrine blogroll. This new blog is definitely a good place to go for a relaxing read after a long day of swatting misbehaving scotts with a rolled-up newspaper or after getting out the broom to chase those annoying  rogers off the back lawn!

Speaking of this weekend’s Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive, another good one! In attendance: DS#1, DownSpring glenn and Molly ( Ms. AKH was unable to attend…something about an issue of…better just go read her latest Post).
For you new Readers, the fun about the Saturday Drive starts with the weather! Since DS#1 and Molly were calling in from widely divergent geographical locations ( from somewhere warm and from one of those big square States out West , respectively). We covered the very wide range of topics that we usually do, of note this Saturday was a telling discussion on dreams, dream interpretation and the Wakefield Doctrine. From there we went to an argument over the question of musicals as a form of entertainment (and whether or not glenn should be embarrassed by his total enthusiasm for the genre.) Finally we talked about several side projects of DS1′s and Molly’s.

In the course of the Drive, the topic of scott-clark relationships briefly rose to topic-level. So to make this a totally, well-rounded Monday Morning Post, following is a brief, talking-point-ish discussion of one of (the many) interesting aspects of the clark-scott relationship.

It is well established that clarks and scotts get along very well, the clark-scott relationship has a dynamic and an excitement level that is very satisfying to both (clark and scott). There is, however, an interesting phenomenon that often shows up (in this particular pairing) that is illustrative of both the nature of clarks and the nature of scotts.  Most of the time and for the most part, clarks tend to be a pretty passive bunch. As ‘Outsiders’, clarks look to get along with everyone, avoiding conflict and confrontation at all costs. The clark is looking to simply blend into the crowd, not stand out.  The problem with (this approach) is twofold: a) there is always conflict and 2) clarks, despite outward appearances, are really very aggressive people. It is just that clarks, for the most part, don’t see sufficient reason in day to day life to go to the trouble of being aggressive.

One of the reasons that the clark scott relationship works so well is that while scotts are naturally aggressive and will always seek to establish dominance/ranking with everyone they meet, clarks basically don’t care. They don’t care about ranking, in that clarks are comfortable being passive most of the time which works out because scotts do care (about ranking). The problem arises when the clark encounters something that rouses their aggressive side. It may be a person or an an idea or a project, but it will make a clark care and therefore become protective and possessive. The scott (in the relationship of this example) usually does not see the difference until something causes the clark to exert themselves. The clark will stop being passive and become aggressive, usually having the effect of forcing the scott to see that the ranking that they thought existed, no longer applies. This is a problem more for the scott than for the clark. Ranking is everything to the scott, and it is not sufficient to know that they are dominant over another pack member, they (the scott) must know that there is someone dominant/superior to them in the pack. While clarks can be very dominant/aggressive, they do not have an instinct to establish a ranking position in a pack structure, and so the scott is left in the position of knowing they should be aggressive but not knowing where the boundaries are, relative to their relationships.

So stop by and see Mel…be sure to say Hidy!

 

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*** a place in the sense of a location in the blogsphere

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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