(the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
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A rare and impromptu discussion with DS#1 and Molly and the Progenitor roger….
Part 2
…no, it’s not you! The conversation was careening all over the rhetorical landscape
Part 1 here!
This Weekend!! A Post with at least 3 different people offering their views and viewpoints on life, childhood and the Wakefield Doctrine you do not want to miss it!
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Topic 1 Occupations that you are likely to succeed in according to your personality type
clark: Teacher, Artist, Waitress, Lighthouse Keeper, Shopkeeper
scott: Salesman, Police Officer, Surgeon, Stripper
roger: Accountant, Engineer, Postal Employee, Frustrated Housewife
Topic 2: Occupations and/careers that each of the three personality types would be least likely to succeed at:
clarks: Surgeon, Football Coach,
scotts: Priest
rogers: Toll booth attendent
Case A Study for Discussion:
The Occupation: Waiter/Waitress
The personality type that is ‘most likely to succeed’: rogerian male and clarklike female
Case Study B for Discussion: (courtsey of DS#1)
The Occupation: Talk Show Host
The personality type that is most likely to suceed’: roger (both male and female!)
Can anyone tell us why this is so?
(Hey everyone knows how much the Doctrine loves and appreciates ‘the Wikipedia’…we depend on it and are card-carrying, voluntary-contribution-paying members since…oh, I don’t know, 2009 or some time…any way…I had to ‘share’* this analysis of today’s song which is an Isley Brothers** song. As follows:
“Lyrically, the song explicates a troubled situation between a man and his girlfriend/wife, concerning the lack of quality time spent with each other. The man pleads that as much as he cannot wait to get home and spend time with her, he has a more pressing obligation/commitment to attend to work.” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_to_Do )
* share: to use, borrow (promise to return) and otherwise appropriate in order to put a Sherwin Williams patina on the shoat
** Jimi Hendrix played with these guys, ’til they fired him for putting on a solo set between the regular sets when the Isleys were on tour (lol, no! he didn’t!)
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The subject of our Post today: Why people act the way that they do…
The word ‘personality’ is the most frequently used ‘shorthand’ term to refer to the typical and consistent-over-time behavior that people display when reacting and responding and interacting with people in their lives.
So even though we are not psychologists, or sociologists, or any other type -gists…when we use the word ‘personality types’, you know what we mean.
There are, of course, many books and theories, beliefs and programs that will tell you why you have the personality that you do. There are even more books, theories and experts that are certain that they can tell you how to figure out what type of personality your have (or your wife has or your father used to have) and not only will they tell you how to figure out what type, they will tell what it means to have a certain type of personality. And, of course, there are whole aisles in bookstores where you can buy a book that will tell you how to self-improve (yourself).
All of this simply because everyone wants their lives to be…better? …happier….more…fufilled?
This is not to say that everyone wants to change or alter or improve their own “personalities”… remember our ’50 couples’ ? Most people want to believe that their lives can be better, just because it should be. And a whole lotta people (87.5%) feel that if the other people in their lives would only change, they would be happier.
So how does the Wakefield Doctrine help you improve your life? …your relationships?
The Wakefield Doctrine says this:
…if you are a clark, you are an outsider to everyone…everything. You are inclined to think of the world (and people) as being ‘there’ while you are ‘here’, you sometimes think to yourself that maybe you missed something growing up, you are sure that all the people you see in your life, the ones that seem to ‘have it together’ know something that you do not and all you have to do is figure it out* According to the Wakefield Doctrine, your personality is perfectly fine and totally appropriate to the reality you are experiencing..in other words, anyone growing up in your world would act a whole lot like you
…the people we refer to as scotts ( adjective: scottian) demonstrate the personality that must develop in order to survive a ‘world-reality’ in which you are a predator and the world around you is comprised of prey and other predators… this world places the emphasis on action, on survival. This is not a world where introspection or doubt is valued, any young child (male or female) that grows up and matures in the scottian worldview, will be aggressive and quick to react, all within the context of the culture… men are boxers and women are seductresseses lol (a little Doctrine humor)
…our third personality type, (the third of the three worldviews that form the foundation for the Wakefield Doctrine) that all of us might grow up in is the world of the roger. This is where our engineers and scientists and accountants and physicians come from, this is the world where our story tellers, our civic leaders our judges and juries learn the rules. Good and bad, the world which results in a person becoming a rogerian personality type is the world of continuity and tradition…laws and punishment, nurture and expulsion
*stop…don’t bother…it is not something you can figure out
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Gather a group of 50 couples (100 people) together in a room. Tell them that you will grant them one wish, but that wish must be to improve some aspect of their relationship. 80 percent* of these 100 people will immediately think of or look at the other person. Why is that? And who is the 20%? (who did not immediately look to the other person). What difference does that make? if 80% of the people responded in a certain way, doesn’t that make them the normal ones? Why is this list of questions continuing? Hey, is this another trick question?!
Two things to take away from this Post today.
* There is a reason for the estimate of 80%. This percentage is derived from the (likely) number of rogers and scotts in the general population. (60% rogers, 20% scotts and 20% clarks)
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This Post was to have been a reflection of my clarklike nature as I prepared to embark upon (another) Wakefield Doctrine roadtrip/jouney of Conquest.1 This is the second trip to Salt Lake City ( our maiden visit to this most excellent of city-like places is totally chronicled in the Post: Me and Mrs. Smith ). Expectations fought with anticipation like a couple junior high school scotts when the mid-transfer student turns out to be totally hot… in other words, the struggle was more fun than the outcome.
In any event, I sat down at the un-godly hour of 3:30 am determined to write a narrative of my perceptions of the implications of the planned road trip…
But that did not happen. Instead what came to mind was a story that I related to Molly, in a Comment over at her blog ( “TheTidyPuzzle.com’… or was that, ‘theWhyOfCourseThatMakessense.com’). The topic of the Post I was Commenting on was, ‘letting go of the baggage of the past’. How it can be beneficial if not difficult. (My) story had to do with an element of my life, the collision of the past with the real and the resultant worldview… (Cut!!)
Sorry to disrupt the narrative flow there folks, but “now” I am sitting in Denver International Airport and I just had to stop trying to write the Post that I was planning to write in order to say, ‘you know how you see a picture of the Parthenon and you immediately think, Ancient Greece! or the Colosseum, you cannot but help think, The Roman Empire! you can even offer the Washington Monument and Capitol Building and who does not think United States of America ( even the boys ages 13 to 67, after they stop giggling, will agree)?
Well, if you ever happen to pass through the Denver airport and you have the slightest understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine‘s 3 personality types, you will be consumed by one word/one concept/one personality type: rogers
My rather limited writing ability and my total lack of knowledge in the areas of architecture and engineering, prevent me from explaining what it is about this place that screams roger. Is it the giant Circus Tent terminal?…or maybe the Security Checkpoint that is situated like the food court of every Mall in the country… shopping travelers are able to stand at the rail of the second level and look down on the screening and security area… no, those are only ’parts of the whole’. The moment of, …of samadhi (Doctrinistically-speaking, lol) came for me as the doors closed on the underground train cars that were the only way to get from the Concourse to the Terminal. Unnecessary speed of the train, the noise, the emphasis on making the passengers not comfortable…the very design forced you to focus on the train system itself and it spoke the word: roger.
Free Wakefield Doctrine Hat to anyone who goes there and reports back or has been to DIA and would care to share their feelings.
The trip itself? oh, yeah! ’Overlook’/Stanley Hotel? Looks like what you hoped it would, until you see that it is surrounded by not-isolated mountain terrain (props to Kubrick for the photography in the movie). The video above speaks for it’s own damnself. The Stanley Hotel? Part of the Wakefield Doctrine portfolio now, baby. Doctrine insight? clarks as day trip visitors, rogers as overnight guests… but you knew that, didn’t you.
OK folks! Back to the work at hand. The Wakefield Doctrine needs to get wider exposure to the world at large. We need everyone reading this Post to think of one person (probably your clarklike friend) and tell them about scotts…and rogers. If they respond, then send them here. We’ll take care of the rest.
1) the word ‘Conquest’ in this context is referring to all the rogers and scotts through history, who have set out to discover and explore new lands, continents, hemispheres and future theme park locations and laying claims of Ownership and Entitlement. We at the Wakefield Doctrine share this enlightened view and do, in fact, claim a ‘Right of Hat’ by which a person2 can claim all lands, people, chattel and even cars and such that they, the Doctrine enfranchised explorer or explorerette, can manage to get into the background of a photo and/or a video. This is not just wishful thinking… this is based on the Treaty of Tordesillas. So there!
2) need to have a hat or some other Wakefield Doctrine endorsed article of clothing, which means getting your very own Wakefield Doctrine hat which is only sent out to them what write us a Comment and becomes a Friend Of The Doctrine3
3) anyone else out there think we need a new acronym for people who decide to take the courageous step of writing a Comment and actively contributing to the advancement of the Doctrine? ( look for a Contest Post coming out this week )
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