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 #3 (did you realize that if you take the date: 01/13/2012 and add 7 days you get….Today’s Date!!!) the Wakefield Doctrine 3 personality types

January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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

Video Friday, when we let our talking do the talking! (…Or our speaking do the speechifying), ( or our oral do the oration…)

 

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Now, don’t get me wrong here, I really love the theory and the background and the implicatorial inferences of the meta-truistic principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, but I think it is time to get a pocket of kibble and a couple of carrots and go find some scotts and rogers to play with, don’t you?
Not ‘polagizin or nothing, I totally am enjoying the development of the Wakefield Doctrine, but even clarks gots to let loose every now and then!

So to everyone who has been working so hard on this thing of ours  recently?  you know, writing Comments and Posts and ‘the FaceBrick’ and such?  …take the weekend off, yo.  You have all totally earned it.
But before you bust out the doors, do me a favor… before you take off?   Stop by the blogs and sites and such of the following people and subscribe or RSS or ESP or SMD… whatever it is they want you to do to follow them. These guys not only give a whole bunch to the Doctrine, but they write some pretty good stuff they-own-selfs.

(In no particular order):   Molly wrote a new Post this week over at ‘Journey‘… the Progenitor roger did this thing on Lionel Hampton at the Secessionist Rag… Mel, well you know Mel! (the frickin guy’s a machine!) head over to the ‘Teachable… hey we heard from Bobbi Stoker this week, she has this blog you should go to , in a sense a lot like  Ronin, ridiculous amount of useful content,  oh, yeah  go over to Alx’s hangout at the EWN  ( if you see him around, tell him to call us Saturday)…and as along as you are over there, stop by Jasmine’s FB page, she has some rather good stuff …. and speaking of ‘people who write the way you should’, say hello to Nell Rose for us… DS#1 has been pushin them electrons and given her all to the Doctrine at the girlie and  the star of the week totally has to go to Our Ms Peek… huskar du, yo  I dare you to go to her blogs and not be glad you did… and  …of course,  we have  you know who… go, bring something nice, you will leave there with a sense of…”hey! there are real people at the Doctrine too!!”

OK you rascals,  get outta here!!  Have fun….and call in Saturday Night and let us know how you managed to use the Wakefield Doctrine to have extra fun this weekend….

 

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the Wakefield Doctrine, (the) best self-improvement system ever and one re-fried Post damn! what won’t these people do?

January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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

HEY!  For some reason the following Post keeps turning up, as the ‘Landing Page’ when a fair number of people come to the Wakefield Doctrine.
Originally titled:  ”if you vote for me, all your wildest dreams will come true (Pedro)”  and published about a year ago, it seems to never go away. Now, the explanation might be that this be the Post that most people came to, the last time they visited the Doctrine !(….lol).
Or it might be the excellent video from Mr. Loaf and Ms. Foley. Whatever.
The Post Title is a reference to a movie, Napoleon Dynamite  that came out in 2004 and apparently became something of a cult classic… I have tried to watch it, sort of enjoyed it…never really became a fan. Doesn’t really matter.
In any event,2 presented in it’s entirety, the Post that made the whole world….

…..Readers!! and Lookers…an Encore Presentation1

 

“At the very real risk of compounding a series of bad (editorial) choices, I am leaving the following to “run” as today’s Post. There were a number of technical difficulties associated with it that normally would have had me throwing the whole thing on the ground and starting over, but I liked the video and couldn’t stand to part with it (Post-wise).
In any event, if you are a New Reader?  better get used to it. There is a universe full of entertaining, informative, well written blogs available at the mere click of a mouse, and there is the Wakefield Doctrine.

Now that I see the words in ‘print’ I just had another satoristic  moment, a new appreciation of this thing of ours!
I’ll bet you that on a good percentage of the Posts that get published, this place looks like a scott’s house/apt.  Bear with me here, I know what I mean to say, not sure how to put it. I’m talking about the ‘tone’ or style, maybe of these Posts; I am thinking that some of them will be kinda scottian. No one element that I can point to, a certain frenetic quality, impulsive un-orderly way of attempting to make a point. That is not to say that scotts are not good housekeepers, (they are not, rogers are the good housekeepers), and not that scotts aren’t the most likely to be taken by curiosity, (they do have a streak of curiosity but it is clarks that are the eclectic of the three). But if you were to go into a scott’s house/room/workshop/library, you would find a really odd bunch of things. Nothing that would betray a need to be orderly, a lot of broken instruments, tons of magazines and not a few half-eaten sandwiches on plates at work benches (… you know a scott was working and eating and then something else caught their attention and BAM out the door). This is the den of a scott, eclectic without a need to preserve, variety without the drive to catalogue.

But I was starting to say, it just struck me that taken as a collection, these Posts are beginning to reflect, at varying times a clarklike consideration, a scottian impulsiveness and a rogerian formality!

Damn, maybe this frickin Doctrine is starting to work!
In any event, below is the ‘original’ Post for today.  ……see ya

Everyone knows the story of how the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers came to be known as the Wakefield Doctrine, right?  ( your monitor gets wavy, you come back into focus in…in  Hollywood?)

INT.      LATE MODEL LUXURY CAR -      NIGHT

Clark and Glenn are in animated discussion, it is clear that the topic is one they are both very, very familiar with and they are covering old ground

CLARK

Blah, blah blah…I know and you know and I know that the theory is valid and way, way more useful than most of the crap that you use for your trainings. When are you gonna incorporate it into one of your modules?

GLENN

Hey, I know its useful I been in this car listening to you for the last 15 years, haven’t I?

CLARK

So what’s it gonna take to do something with this thing…what do you need to take it on the road? Hell, I know you are already stealing parts of it in your presentations

GLENN

Credibility. Thats what it needs…If I go out there in front of my Board of Directors and say, ‘this new module is based on ‘the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’ they will laugh…

CLARK

Yeah, but…it works… it is useful…

GLENN

…And it sounds like it came out of a dorm room…from the 70s. I work in a corporate environment…credibility, empirical…metrics…you hearin this?

CLARK

I get it, I get it…fine! then I’ll change the name…you want credibility?…from now on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is…the…Doctrine, the Wakefield Doctrine!

GLENN

Fuckin yeah!

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Did you happen to notice that we had a (fairly un-common) pairing here of a scott/scott?  Ellen Foley is pretty obviously a scott, but Meatloaf not immediately so; but if you are not convinced watch the end (7:44) of the song.

1) Encore Presentation: too tired/lazy/busy to go to the effort to create something new, but one must never admit that!  How rogerian is that?

2) ‘in any event’  thats ‘old people‘ for ‘whatever’3

3) which is, in turn, ‘somewhat older people‘  for….

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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

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

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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hey! my Day is Starting here….gimme something from the Wakefield Doctrine that will actually make a difference!!

January 11, 2012 By 14 Comments

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

Out “there”,  where you the Reader exists, chances are that at this present moment, you are going to work or waiting for the bus to school (or leaving the dorm for breakfast before your first class) or having coffee before starting the day keeping the household healthy and happy for babies and children.
Today’s Post,  we offer one single bit of advice (technically three single bits of advice) to you that will make a difference to you at some point in your day today. Your day will be better because of it.

 

 

clarks: make one List of the things you need to do today, (spend no more than 10 minutes on that list) and then….  put the List away. Put it in a place where it will sit until the end of the day. Do not put it among the things you will carry with you throughout the day, do not save a copy (if you are using a computer either print the list and put away or if not printing the list save it to the desktop on the computer.) Now go out and do everything you think you need to do just as if it were  the only thing on your List.
(At the end of the day you may look at the list and write us a Comment).

scotts: make one List of the things you think that other people ( your family, your boss, your workers) would be happy to see you do today. Take that List with you today. Check it constantly. When you see the opportunity to do anything on that List, do it. And (this is important) do not tell anyone about your List or about the things you do.
(At the end of the day you may tear up the List and write us a Comment).

rogers: make one List today of the things that you know you have to do, but really hate the thought of doing. Give this List to whoever is the ‘most’ Significant Other in your life at the present time. In the course of the day, contact this person and ask them to read you the List. Try to do at least one of the things that this person reads to you. Keep the List to yourself (and your significant other) do not tell anyone else.
(At the end of the day, ask your Significant Other if there is anything left on the list….and write us a Comment).

 

OK people!!  There it is  from the Wakefield Doctrine to you. A better day….

…don’t forget to write that damn Comment at the end of the day.

 

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