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now that you’ve had your little joke, Mr. Emerson

October 25, 2010 By

“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, you know…I gotta say that if Mr. Emerson were sitting here, I might have to challenge him on his pithy little, ‘hey-I’m-so-transcen-splendid’…Ground Control to Major Ralph (…huh, huh…he said ralph… ). Now before anyone says, “who said you have a better mousetrap?”, allow me to retort,

“I said we have a better mousetrap”. Stop reading. Click on google search. Type in ‘personality types’. Hit Enter.   What do you get?

Wait, don’t answer…I’ll show you what you get…(cause you scotts did not do anything I suggested), here is what you get:

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….notice that last entry?…”morefewer”…tell me a clark did not come up with that and they will swear that it is the only word that will do…
 
Point? My Point? You are wondering what all this and Ralph have to do with the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)?
 
I guess my point is that we have not done a good enough job presenting the benefits of our little improved personality/self-understanding/self-improvement/party game mousetrap here. And that is our fault, not yours.
 
So lets start all over again.
 
“Ladies and Gentleman, this is a Wakefield Doctrine”... It is a fun and useful, unique and intriguing, insightful and easy to understand, way to look at the behavior of those people in our lives. With the Wakefield Doctrine, why people act the way they do will finally make sense. With the Wakefield Doctrine you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves. With the Wakefield Doctrine, you and your friend will have hours of fun, at home, at school, at work or just getting about your lives. With the Wakefield Doctrine you will be able to understand yourself in way that will be useful. With the Wakefield Doctrine you can change the things you want to change about yourself and resist the efforts of people who would have you change things about yourself that you would rather not change.
 
In short, the Wakefield Doctrine will make an awful lot of things understandable and put things in a context that you can do something about.
 
And all you have to do is read and imagine. All you have to do is be willing to accept, just for the sake of demonstrating this Doctrine, that everyone you meet today will be living in a reality that might be a little different than yours. All you have to do is be willing to accept that “what you know” might not be the only way. All you have to do is read, understand and have fun.
 
So, for a nearly free hat (for your damn head) who can tell us which our boy Ralph is, a clark or a scott or a roger. (Sorry DownSprings and Progenitors not eligible).
 
 
 
 

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Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

Comments

  1. Downspring#1 says:
    October 25, 2010 at 8:48 am

    Seeing as I am ineligible to participate in the “contest” today, let me simply say that I enjoy the use of anaphora in your post writing.
    Additionally, the Wakefield Doctrine provides a very useful tool by which to “figure” someone out. Saves mucho time!

  2. clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
    October 25, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    thank you DS#1 it is indeed a useful tool, it is indeed a time-saving tool, it is indeed almost anaphoric (sounds like a word DownSpring glenn would use, but in an offensive sort of way, lol)

    Anyway…no takers on which our boy Ralphie is?

    Alright a hint…eyes! people look at the eyes…is there a distance? a distracted look there?

    ?…!!*(&%*&(&
    look:

  3. AKH says:
    October 25, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    disinterested. bored. imagine if he was looking directly at you. wouldn’t you feel like he doesn’t really care about what you’re saying to him? kind of “yeah, ok. whatever. i’ve got other things on my mind…” looking at you but not hearing you. very pensive. so that makes him….. well we all have some of each in us now don’t we?

  4. clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
    October 25, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    go ahead….say it….

    (but he will remember everything you said to him…even though most of the people at the gathering will say, “Ralph was there? no way…where?)

    yeah…a clark…’so many great ideas…so little time being perceived/noticed/inter-acted with by real people’

  5. AKH says:
    October 26, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    i didn’t want to say it as i was not “eligible” was leaving it up to a new reader (like that’s gonna happen)
    but seriously we must have patience. not always easy to do. especially if you’re an “immediate gratification” type. yeah, i know what you’re gonna say, so i’ll leave it at that (unless you want to address glenn)