Take care, TCB
August 26, 2010 By
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers). Glad to see you and please, please make yourself at “home”. With me today, as always are the…Raisonettes’…Ms. AKH!! …DownSpring#1!!! come on out, take a bow (…ain’t they purty?…these two have to be the most capable and honorable of all the DownSprings it has ever been my pleasure to have known…) Let ’em know how much you agree…come on folks give it up for the Raisonettes!!!
Today the theme is… “low-hangin fruit”
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a course of action that can be undertaken quickly and easily as part of a wider range of changes or solutions to a problem: first pick the low-hanging fruit
So, to start this easy* topic, let us simply reference a Post from an earlier, more innocent time August 14…last year….damn! seemed like it was only…wait, wait…give me a minute…(…thank you AKH….it just struck me how much time has gone by…you and DS#1 …you both still read this thing…don’t you?….why yes, of course I know that….) hey! hey! come on this is ain’t no episode of Davy and Goliath ya know!!…come on as I was saying…
One of the most frequent comment/questions we get is: ‘I can see all the characteristics of all three types in myself (or another person), how do I decide which group I belong to?’ The easy, but less satisfying answer is, ‘everyone has the qualities of the three types, just one (type) tends to dominate’. (Ed. note: at the start it is easier to determine who are clarks, scotts or rogers among those around you, rather than yourself.)
So for the impatient readers (yes, I mean you, scott); following is a quick, ‘down and dirty’ guide to identifying the clarks, scotts and rogers around you:
This clip from an early Post should be helpful to our newer Readers and Visitors. Remember, you are all three (clarks, scotts and rogers) it is just that most of the time you are mostly one of the three. And it is the way that you see the world (when you are that ‘mostly’ one) that allows us to predict your behavior and actions.
So get out there and look around today, you will spot the rogers first, the scotts second (except that you will be wrong the first time but right there after) and the clarks last. Remember: clarks are trying to be noticeable by blending in, rogers want to be the center of the herd and scotts are just plain fuckin hungry…
* you did get the inference of the idiom, didn’t you?
Hello no, no there is plenty of room down here in front y’all should come on in and set awhile
August 25, 2010 By
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
This is the blog that has it all! Clever photos (from the treasure trove of drawings and pictures and paintings to be found in/on the internet), catchy and occasionally intriguing music videos graciously pre-donated by the self-less people in and around youtube and other similar take-one caches and information (god! do we have information, not just a lot of information but all kinds, information that is: true, accurate, mis-informed, well-intentioned, subversive, coercive, divisive and mostly free; all presented in a way that best serves the ultimate judge of value, us.) And this blog has what no one else has in, on or around the Internet, it has the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is, as Regular Readers will attest to, a unique, beneficial and fun way to look at the behavior of those in our lives. Whether at home or at work or at play, with the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine, you can finally understand why our family and friends and co-workers do the things that they do! And have fun doing it! Oh, and by the way? with the tools you will acquire from understanding the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, you will not only understand people, you will be able to predict the behavior of the people in your life! (Pretty not-bad, eh Missy?) Once you are able to determine whether a person is a clark or a scott or roger, then you will be able to reliably and accurately predict their reaction to virtually any situation.
(Well, it’s true…) With the information contained in this blog, (in the Pages and these Posts) you will learn pretty damn quick how to spot a roger or a scott and/or a clark. With the information contained in this blog, (in the Pages especially) you will learn to see the world through the eyes of the other person, you will know the nature of ‘the relationship’ between the person and the world (they believe they are in), With the information contained in this blog you will come to understand yourself better and be able to change whatever you might want to change (if you are a clark) or take advantage of the other persons need for change (if you are a scott) or simply be even more certain of your place in the world (if you are roger). All this and more.
A note to New Readers and/or Visitors “Be sure to try this at home. All that you read is not done by professionals, it is all done on a whim and a prayer. Perhaps a better description is (courtesy of the Progenitor roger) this is improvisational academics. But why the hell not, the only person you can hurt is yourself (if you are a clark doing it wrong) or the other person (if you are a scott and you will surely get it wrong at the start) or no one cause you know there is no point to it (if you are a roger).
Very Important Point…even though it is written throughout this frickin ‘zoo-as-personality-theory’, the most basic premise to the Wakefield Doctrine is that the three types (clarks, scotts and rogers) together comprise the range of ‘behavior’ of all of us. The potential range of behavior might be a better description. Put another way, all of us, including the scott who has wandered away 2 paragraphs ago, have the qualities of all three. The Wakefield Doctrine says that at one point in early life, we become predominately one of the three. But we never lose the potential of the other two. (As a slightly obsequious bit of flattery, it is further maintained that anyone getting (this far) in the Doctrine is a somewhat more superior example of their type. An un-alloyed clark would have decided in the first sentence that they had already thought of this and move on, the full throttle scott would have skipped all this and gone straight to the video and stayed only if they liked the song and a pure roger would not have stayed any longer than it took for him to decide that this was not Family Tree dot Com.) But you are not like that, are you?
(Oh yeah, the Wakefield Doctrine is also gender neutral and culture neutral. But I am out of clever ways to present an example of this, while still making the distinction among the three).
So come on in, read this shit and tell a friend.
If you stay around you will see that we have a number of regularly repeating themes/features/characters whatever. There are people who will write Posts and portions of Posts, these are referred to as Progenitors and DownSprings. You will also see reference to Friends of the Doctrine, people who have their own blogs and/or websites and come and contribute from time to time. And there is Mill Fill High. This is an “imaginary” high school with students and staff that you will see turn up from Post to Post. As a device Mill Fill has been fun and useful, for example, there are a couple of Posts from late last year/early this year, that consisted of a ‘Lecture’ to the CSR 101 class (it will make sense later) where the Progenitor roger and DownSpring Ms AKH and glenn all had the opportunities to expound on the Doctrine. All in a safe and supportive environment. Aren’t blogs wonderful?
So stick around and see if you can pick up on this things of ours. There are some movie clips to illustrate behavior as seen in clarks, scotts and rogers, those are helpful. And there are Comments from Regular Readers that will also help you get to that point where, in the course of the day you will find yourself saying, “Damn! That has got to be one of those scott people!” (Correct term is scottian, pronounced sco shun). Most likely your first eureka moment will be in response to rogers, given that there are so many of them. In any event, have fun and let us know what you have questions on…remember the saying, “there are no stupid questions, there are just your questions”.
Oh, yeah….hats (for your damn heads). You will see in the Fashion Center examples of Wakefield Doctrine fashion items. From time to time we have contests and from time to time we just give these fine, fine head coverings away. Well, today is your lucky day. For the first two Readers who write a Comment there will be sent (to you) a (nearly free) hat (for your damn head). That simple.
(The ‘nearly free’? That just means that we require a photo of your new hat in front of a recognizable local landmark, with or without the support of (your damn) head. As we have said before, camera-shy clarks can get one of their more attractive friends to model the hat. All we want is a photo(s) of the hat and the geography. Example from about a month ago is Mel wearing his hat (on his own damn head) in front of a lighthouse in “Michigan”. Yo, thanks Mel. You get the idea, no?)
Mr. B! Sure come on up and take a bow…lots of new Readers…no, I don’t think they need to hear your side of the story…nobody cares anymore…I know! I’m as surprised at that satement as you are…whats you gots, B? (yeah something on that end of the spectrum…we have a little scott who is feeling kinda sad and a little mopey…gimme sumpin to cheer his ass up…)
If I were King of the Forest, Not queen, not duke, not prince
August 24, 2010 By
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) What we have heah is a fun, pro-ductive an u-neek way ta look at thems what are already in ah lives. Ya know that we mean ever-one thats aroun you…work folks and friens and even kin! They all actin this ways, that a ways and such, ya amost never know what they might be up to. Well this here Doctrine here, it’ll let ya see through ’em faster n a scott at the Evelyn Woods Readin Comprehenshun Course.
Thank you for visiting. The Wakefield Doctrine is more serious and useful than the Post Title and opening paragraph may imply, but sometimes the process of writing these Posts requires a side trip or two. What makes today’s Post “interesting” is not the strained effort at a regional dialect, but rather the quote from the Wizard of Oz.
It started yesterday morning, when the Bert Lahr line , “now if I were the king of the forest, not prince, not duke, not earrll…” from the movie popped into my head. For a variety of reasons I did not write a Post yesterday, but I thought, “that’s alright I’ll save that until Tuesday’s Post”, figuring if it stayed in my head that long, I would use it as sort of a platform to launch the Post (from). Come this morning, looking up the line and it turns out to be: “…not Queen, not duke not prince…” Damn, mis-remembered it! Then, to add insult to injury, I get this pidgin dialect in my head as I try to do a standard, ‘Welcome to the Doctrine…” opening!
Well, I (still) welcome (you) to the Wakefield Doctrine! Regular Readers will notice a number of changes going on in the format of the blog and other signs of activity. It’s all part of the 90 Day Challenge, which is the Readership Drive that started a week or two ago. Some of the more noticeable changes are the result of suggestions of ‘Our Consultant’, Miz ‘Becca (Rebecca Giles over at Web Savvy Marketing). Brought in to help us tune up this thing from a search engine point of view, she is hard at work trying to help our Doctrine become the biggest visitor-count website, this side of the Philippines. Even though I am still jonesing for my beloved ellipsiseses… the early consensus is, “yeah, you go Consultant”! All the DownSprings have been hard at work as well. Story-lines for the coming months (that would be Progenitor roger and DS#1) and surveys/questionnaires hopefully from Joanne and of course, Ms. AKH has been especially busy on researching ways for us to ‘get legit’. Every bit the scottian female, AKH has taken the 90 Day Challenge very much to heart. Say what you will about scotts, but when they decide that something needs to be done, they all over that thing. Somehow since Sunday, she has found herself a seo guy (hey Doug, welcome to the Doctrine,“read it and sleep”…), started something in Wikipedia and has two or three other lines of inquiry going…not bad, not bad at all!
We’re still waiting for glenn to get back from “Inappropriate Comment Rehab Camp” (motto: ‘fuck everyone!’) and we will see if we can’t survive until Thanksgiving.
Does that give us a Lesson of the Day? nah, not yet. I could get all Marxist (or Marist, for that matter) and talk about how, when you look at what each of the DownSprings and Progenitors have chosen as a way to save this thing of ours, they are reflecting the characteristics of their type. The clarks (DS#1) is utilising and channeling the ability of others (in this case trying to motivate Progenitor roger), the standalone rogers (Joanne) she would be finding hope in the form of a mechanism that is quantifiable and measurable, i.e. a survey/questionaire that will tell the Visitor Reader which of the three they most likely are and the scotts who are all about action.
I could, go on at length about these comparisons and inferences and it might be a good idea, seo-wise. (You know, where I stick in words like personality type and relationships and clarksscottsroger so the google can find us and stick us at the top of the search results along with “Lindsay, We Hardly Knew Ye”, and “Secrets of the Housewifes of Delaware (“I told my Lover, Incorporate this!”) but I won’t. With so many new Readers coming in, lets just get all ABC with the Wakefield Doctrine.
The Wakefield Doctrine is built upon the idea that everyone experiences the world/reality differently, from one of three overlapping but distinctive perspectives. It also proposes that our personalities are but a result of our perception, of our habitual responses to the world. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that this characteristic perception of reality can be grouped into three distinct types, called for reasons stated elsewhere, clarks, scotts and rogers.
Born with the potential to view the world in one of these three ways, all people possess the characteristics of all (three) but soon (by age 7 or so) ‘become one of the three. Put another way: we also possess the potential to see the world as aclark or a scott or a roger. It is only the predominance of qualities from one (over the other two) that makes us what we are. No one is only clarklike or scottian or rogerian.
The value of the Wakefield Doctrine is that once you can see the world ‘through the eyes’ of another, behavior becomes understandable. If a scott sees the world as a predator (would) then all action is predicated on interacting with the world as a predator. This is distinctly different from a roger, who seeing the world as a social being, predicates action and reaction on the basis of a world in which the intereactions of the herd is the dominant theme.
…hey Just found the Lesson of the Day!! Which of the three (Scarecrow, Tin Man Cowardly Lion) are which ( clark, scott or roger)? I was just downloading the clip of the Cowardly Lion and it seems that the movie would be a productive context to illustrate the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. Provided you are old enough to be ready to collect frickin Social Security.
Maybe not to the level of a “Win a hat (for your damn head) Contest”, but go ahead, send in your choice of which was who (and don’t forget the corroborating evidence, yo)
you know, I really think the couch would look so much better over there, no just a little to your right ellipsis goes here
August 22, 2010 By
Welcome to the (hey! where did the clever, made-me-think-of-Charles-Dickens, little subtitles go?) Wakefield Doctrine, aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers.
Please, everyone* remain calm, we are in the midst of a slight remodel effort, everything is still where it has always been, sort of. You might have noticed that the Post Title is no longer the Wakefield Doctrine (…>obscure, but clever reference goes here…<) and there is a “Tag Cloud” to the right of the Post and there is even a little Twitter thing down lower in the right sidebar. All part of the Final 90 effort. (Readers should go back to sometime around August 4 or 6 and read the Post where we decided that if there is not a significant increase in the Readership around here, we be pullin the plug.)
So, seeing as we don’t want to see that happen, we brought in an Expert. Yes, we have a Consultant. (How cool, mainstream, “hey folks we need to get some professional help here”, “does anyone know of anyone who can help us”, effort is this? Isn’t this the kind of thing that ends up bringing in people who make suggestions that result in a layer of middle-management types?…hey, wait a minute!…let me check the Doctrine…hmmm…Middle Easternn…Midilothian (??)…Mental Disease…Middle Age….Middle Management! (gotcha!)…Damn, is that a photo of James Spader? goddamn it, look at the citation: “rogers are most often found as Middle Managers in any organisation. With their natural propensity for placing procedures and processes before production and profit, the rogerian Middle Manager is the foundation of any top-heavy, change resistant organization…” Holy shit! quick, get rid of that water cooler…hurry up!, what? no, I did not order a pallet of color-coordinated office supplies!! (no, I do not want a ream of personalized Post-its!!) wtf ! where did that “When Eagles Soar!!” poster come from?! oh man, I think they’ve have gotten in already! Jesus Christ, there is a Sign Up sheet for the Wakefield Doctrine pic-a-nic, on the…hey! we don’t have a Bulletin Board! People, we have a significant rogerian infiltration problem. Only one thing to do…we need a scott! stat!!
Oh, hey… I’m sorry. I got a little off track.
Where was I? …explaining how we have retained the services of a professional blog consultant, Rebecca? yeah, stand up…people this is Rebecca. She owns a company called Web-Savvy-Marketing (www.web-savvy-marketing.com ) and she is here to help us. Now, everyone say hello.
Please save your questions for later. (yeah glenn, you will have a chance to ask questions….provided that you it make past “Mr. Moderator”…lol)
No, I’m serious. Real person, real Consultant and we will all be helpful and cooperative, won’t we? (…no, Britney, I do not think she has a problem with imaginary high school students…why that would be nice, I’m sure she would enjoy that…but lets wait until she gets settled in here…then you can show her around Mill Fill High…that would be great…)
In any event, you will see the effects of Rebecca’s suggestions as we continue to try and modernise and compartmentalise… Yes, she does in fact hail from “Michigan”, the same putative “State” as Mel claims to live in, (no I doubt if they know each other, glenn). So if anyone has any questions about changes or suggestions for changes, thats what we have her here for, so don’t be shy.
Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day?
Sure… why not? You know it is kind of early, we can hardly say we know her, but I think I would would tend towards scott, maybe an evolved clark but definitely not a roger. A hat? (for her damn head)? I think it is best that we wait a bit, see how well things go this Fall. Hate to be Mr. Bringdown, but if we do not hit our numbers by the scheduled date…. (yes, that is the rogerian expression, pronounced: “dit…dit…dit”). It was coined by the Progenitor roger, sometime in the early 1980’s. It is most commonly used as an alternative to ‘e.g.’ (Latin for ‘exempli gratia’) but with an added inference of (the equally Latin), ‘et cetera’, plus an ever so slight overtone of ‘ad infinitum’…
So lets all welcome Miz Becca to the Doctrine, (glenn, you can take off the gag if you promise to be polite to our guest, or better yet…tell Ms. AKH whatever you want to say and if she will say it, I will allow it in Comments)…roger, please stop playing with the three-hole punch, there will be time for making up Report Binders later, yes I am sure she does appreciate neatness.
So, lets go out today and find someone who has not been to the Wakefield Doctrine blog (www.wakefielddoctrine.com) ( how hard can that be?) find them and make them go and read and Comment. Tell them there is a (nearly free) hat in their future if they do this thing.
* by ‘everyone’, we mean all the Visitors** who are not currently, actively engaged in writing this Post
** by ‘all the Visitors’, we mean everyone but me, so that would probably mean, ‘both of you’
