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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this Wakefield Doctrine, it will help me live a more satisfying life? It offers (me) a better way to relate to people? What do I do first?

January 10, 2012 By 1 Comment

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

The answers to the questions posed in the Title of today’s Post (in reverse order):

  1. …read as much of this blog as you need in order to understand the Wakefield Doctrine, read the Posts and Comment on at least one of the Posts
  2. …It most certainly does!
  3. yep!
While the three, conveniently numbered answers above are all the information that the clarks in the audience will require, lets take a moment to address the needs of our rogerian and scottian Readers. In their case, we will use (a) bullet point/numbered list format, mostly because it makes the information appear to be organized in a concise and direct fashion (for our scottian readers) while, at the same time,  making everything look all neat and orderly and deliberate ( you know, rogerian!)
First up, to our scottian Readers:
  • Hey! you’re not frickin gonna believe the ‘edge’ that this Doctrine thing will give you out there in the real world
  • Thats right!! an edge…an advantage that no one…no one else but you will have at work or at play or (especially) at home
  • this is really easy!  you’re right you do have it down pretty much already  just a couple of quick pointers
  • you’re the cool action-oriented one of the three
  • the rogers, the ones you love to make fun of?  they are so easy now it’s not funny ( just joking!  still funny but better!)
  • that third type? these ‘clarks‘? you still can get them to laugh, ‘cept now with the Doctrine, they’ll get all “hey scott you really understand the Doctrine now! thats great lets talk about the theory…blah…blah…blah“
The rogerian Readers will find the Wakefield Doctrine interesting for the following, well-thought out reasons:
  1. there are numbered reasons and (they) are nicely indented
  2. obviously this Wakefield Doctrine was not developed by those scottian personality types, there is not a single crayon-drawn ‘FUCK’ anywhere to be seen (…on this page)
  3. it all seems to make sense and they do appear to be quite sincere in their appreciation of the necessity of maintaining traditions
  4. those clarks, hmmm …a little…wild-eyed and impractical, but they seem to be appreciating the necessity of maintaining traditions
  5. this all does seem to form a very neat and tidy box, too bad that I don’t recall ever having thought of it myself
  6. …wait a minute, this is all beginning to look a little bit familiar, I believe I thought of this in 1975…
Well, that should take care of all our New Readers.
Everyone else? Have fun! Seriously! (lol) after all is said and done, the Wakefield Doctrine is a fun, and useful and unique way of understanding the behavior of the people in our damn lives. If you know the characteristics of the three personality types, you are totally all set.
Boyfriend a scott? Forget the long involved appeals to his intellect:  go for the BRIGHT SHINY SEXY…when you have his attention (for however brief a time) you have all of him! As much as you are going to get, at any rate.
Wife looking like a roger? Fine, not the worst thing in the world! Need to get something done? Never surprise a roger, never present a new idea to a roger in public…always in private first get their attention” REFLECT SHINY SEXY/HOME IMPROVEMENT* If you manage to get her to believe that what you want is something that she already knew and wanted, you are all set.
clark for a friend?…how in luck are you! just don’t take their ideas and efforts at figuring our their own lives personally, there is nothing you can do to help…other than point them to this blog and hope for the best.
(Hey, do you think I should do that last section as bullet points too?…it really is some useful, practical Doctrine advice…now that I read it, it might be the whole point of today’s Post)

 

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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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* not literally town**

** more a place***

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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the Wakefield Doctrine: Principles and Personalities (is this clear?)

January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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

You know how we said that the New Year ( now the current Year) was going to be a time of organizing the information presented here, so that even the newest of New Readers will totally understand the Doctrine and be able to get a benefit from it, right the hell from the start? Well, this organization thing is tougher than I imagined. The problem is not that we don’t know the Doctrine and how it works and how to use it. The problem/difficulty/challenge lies in the  ’how-to-explain-it-so-that-everyone-and-anyone-gets-it’, aspect of our presentation.
And you know whose fault that is, don’t you?
That’s right! It’s your fault!1  (Just a little editorial levity to offset the dreaded ‘you’re out here in the vast white space of an un-written Post)

Here at the Wakefield Doctrine, the primary writing guidelines have always been to:

  • have a good time
  • write about what I know
  • impart or convey or induce or whatever the hell is required to allow the Reader to come away from this Post glad that they spent the time to read it
So even though this year we have a “mandate”  to be better “organized” so that all our Readers can “understand” that the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique and useful and fun “theory of personality“; after all that, the writing of a useful, informative and entertaining Post has not gotten easier.
New Reader be advised. These Posts are meant more as conversations on the subject of the the Wakefield Doctrine.2

 The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at behavior. Of people. That we know. (…or don’t know).

The Wakefield Doctrine affords us  a perspective on the ‘why’ of a person’s behavior, a feature that is missing in most of the mainstream personality theories. The reason this insight is possible is found within the core tenet of the Doctrine, which is as follows:

All people are born with a predilection to perceive reality as three distinct, characteristic (yet related) worlds. These worlds have rules and assumptions and understandings just like you would expect. What the Doctrine says is that you can live in any of these three worlds but for reasons not yet understood, we settle on one (of these worlds) by age of 5 or 6 and this becomes our worldview. We become clarks or scotts or rogers. We say this because we see behavior as being reasonable reactions and responses to life, provided we understand the reality the person is reacting to. A clark is a clark because they exist in a world in which they are the outsider, a scott behaves like he/she does because they are living their life in a world based on the predator/prey model and  a person who we call a roger is sociable and intelligent and petty and ‘precisely inventive’ because they have (chosen) to live in a world as constructed using the underlying assumptions of the herd mentality.

This might seem confusing at first. I’m sort of explaining it backwards. The way the Doctrine came to be was a result of serendipitous observation of a friend 3 and the inspired insight that his behavior, characteristic responses ( in other words, his personality) made more sense if the worldview that he was seeing was somehow different from mine. For those of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine, all behavior is easily understood provided you can see the world through the (other) person’s eyes. The description of the three personality types will help make the leap to the idea of the three world views. It sounds more difficult than it actually is. Oh yeah! One important detail:  all of us have the capability to experience the world as the other two do. I am a clark, but I have within a rogerian (and) a scottian aspect. When you start learning about the Wakefield Doctrine, you will find yourself saying, “What the hell! Most of the time I am sure I must be a clark but then I see what is clearly a rogerian response.”  All perfectly normal, it is proof in a sense that we retain the view of the world that ‘the other two’ personality types maintain. Just keep exploring and learning the characteristics of each of the three types, the one that you are will be the one that keeps popping back up.

So lets consider this the core premise of the Wakefield Doctrine. The world you are acting in is based on rules and assumptions that shape your options (in behavior, reactions, as we said above about scott, you response to the world comprises your personality type).
Remember that this is a reality of predominance, the world that you exist in as a clark or a scott or a roger is what it is because of a pre-dominance. You never lose the capacity to see the other two worlds. (In fact, it is critical that you never forget that, because that is where we will find the most productive, useful and all-around cool uses of the this thing of ours, in terms of self-development and change and such.)

Good start on the Year. Lets all give ourselves a pat on our respective backs for a good session (…I said, pat,  scott….pat! ) lol

We’ll do some more later in the week.

Guest Call out for this week’s Video Friday!!  Anyone want to come ‘on the air’ let us know.  It’s fun!  Ask anyone who has done it! ( Such as Molly or Ms. AKH or DS#1 or even the progenitor roger!) As a matter of fact, if you go there and ask them (at their blogs) for a Wakefield Doctrine hat (for your damn head) we damn well will send you one!

 

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1) Superscript Lesson Number 1: when it comes to being inclined to want to assign blame for problems and difficulties, you are always safe going with  a roger

2)  the ‘we’  around here consists of a number of exceptional people referred to by various titles, Progenitors, DownSprings and Friends of the Doctrine (FOTD) and they are all people like you (New Reader). They came into contact with the Wakefield Doctrine and they found it: interesting, amusing, useful, fuckin incredibly insightful and fun and they have stayed on and contribute to the body of knowledge that we now have.

3) here read this  actually when you get there,go right to the bottom of the Page, that is the story of the first encounter with a Progenitor

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Video Friday! Saturday Edition, 2011 in review the Wakefield Doctrine, (next stop the Future!)

December 31, 2011 By 2 Comments

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

 

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Wasn’t that informative? Well, it is year end and while there are a lot of things coming up in the New Year, lets not squander any potentially good Post topics.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding the personalities and personality types. It is a view on behavior that will allow you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. With an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, you need never again be in a position of frustration or aggravation, asking yourself, “Now why on earth would they go and do something like that? I really thought I knew them better!?

Let us know if you have any questions.

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