Month: January 2012 | the Wakefield Doctrine

..(BONUS).personality types, (INSERT) insights into behavior (TODAY)and a little backstory (ONLY!)for good measure! the Wakefield Doctrine

January 30, 2012 By clarkscottroger

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

In a recent Video Friday Interview, when asked what changes or additions might improve the blog, Claire Peek suggested providing insight into the ‘why of the Wakefield Doctrine’. (As Claire put it “…A new Reader might find interesting how the Doctrine was born but especially why….” )

Far be it from us to shy away from a difficult task, in this case it is not so much a matter of the (historical) record of how the Wakefield Doctrine came to be, but rather the personal side of that creation/evolution/development. That is the challenge for today.

Easy part first! The ‘Eureka Moment of the Wakefield Doctrine ( nee the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ):

In the early 1980’s, Scott (the progenitor scott) worked at a music store in Pawtucket. He was the main salesman and also ran the repair department (of the store), this included not only repairing musical instruments and equipment that he sold, but any equipment that might be in need of repair, including various types of tape recorders and other similar equipment.

One day I happened to stop by the store to visit scott while he worked. While there, a customer came into the store, went to the ‘repair department where scott and I were talking and presented to scott what was known as a ‘duel cassette recorder’ (This device had the capacity to record two cassette cartridges at once and was most often used to copy the contents of one cassette to another cassette, what we would call today, making a back up. Among the controls on this ‘dubbing recorder’ were two of all the normal tape recorder controls: volume, treble and bass. Where it was different from a single cassette recorder was that it had a Master Volume control dial, which, as the name implies controlled the overall sound output of the device.) The recorder that the customer placed on the counter appeared to be new and had no signs of damage or abuse. (As the customer approached the counter, I stepped back and Scott looked up and said, ‘What can we do for you’? The customer said to Scott, “this thing is brand new, it worked for a couple of days, then it stopped working entirely, I can’t figure out what is wrong”.

Scott looked at the recorder briefly, without saying a word and then reached under the counter and brought out some (black) electrical tape, and tearing off a 2 inch piece of tape, taped over the Master Volume control (after returning the dial to it’s highest setting). After completing this, scott slid the device back over towards the customer and simply said, “ There, its all right now”

The customer asked to plug in the recorder, took a cassette from his pocket, tried the recorder, ran it through it’s paces; seeing that the broken tape recorder that he brought into the store now worked like new thanked scott and walked out of the store without another word. A totally satisfied customer.

From my perspective the world shifted. For reasons not clear to this day, I not only saw what scott had seen (the nature of the equipment problem) but I saw that his solution implied a reality, a ‘context’ that was clearly different from the one that I assumed to be the same as everyone experienced.

That is the factual side of the creation of the Wakefield Doctrine. The personal side?

I had plenty of friends. Or more to the fact, I had a close circle of friends that I seemed to have acquired rather deliberately. Sometimes, when I hear or read about people expressing anxiety about making new friends in a new school or a changed job, I will laugh to myself. I still find (in the fact of) my own comfort that this thing that real people seem to worry about, (i.e.making friends) is really so not difficult while at the same time/all the time, I feel so isolated from people in general. And the irony of this is not wasted on me! I accept now (as I did back then) that this is just another aspect to the weird world that I inhabit.
In any event, back to the ‘personal side of the creation of the Wakefield Doctrine, I knew back then that I had two things I could count on: having a small circle of friends who ‘got me’ and living with a pervasive, never-ending sense of lacking something… fitting in, being a part of, knowing what I was supposed to be doing in order to be like everyone else. Call it what you like, it is this certainty that ‘I am different from’ and because ‘I am missing something’ that defines who I am and once I figure out what (or where) that missing thing is, I will no longer be different from everyone else.
I suspected then, (as I now know for certain) that the thing I needed to understand was right in front of me, but not having a clue as to what it was like, the only thing to do was try to watch everything.
Watching is not exactly synonymous with living, ( lol a joke for the clarks reading this) and so I would settle for watching as I knew that the life that I thought I was in was not really the ‘real life’ that everyone else seemed to be enjoying.
Finally, the moment described above, the scene in the music store. That I would make the leap from what I observed to what I knew, what I concluded (about reality and people) was nothing less than a total frickin gift… if I had a stronger rogerian aspect, I imagine I would go on at length about inspired insight, or serendipity but I do not have that strong a rogerian aspect. If the truth is not obvious, I have a strong (barely restrained) secondary scottian aspect. But that is a whole ‘nother Post.
So as the Lady once said, ‘that’s how it began’.

OK!! Time to close the Post, unfortunately on sad note…as I know that most of you already know, Robert Hegyes passed away late last week. So we will close with the theme song to his, chef-d’œuvre

You looking for the Bonus Inset? Right this way, yo. This is a clip from a Post written last July, very good explanation of the clark, scott roger thing! We figured, hey this layout really needs shaking up, so lets do an overlay Title/new Content*

The Wakefield Doctrine has 3 personality type categories: clarks, scotts and rogers. You are mostly one (of these 3) but you still have the other 2 in background.
…and when we say personality types? what we mean is, “What kind of world do you walk out to every morning”? Because this Doctrine is not about your likes and dislikes, favorite colors or foods, interests, hobbies, avocation or inspiration. It is about the nature of your reality.

Yes, you read that right. Reality. Each of the three types of personality in the Wakefield Doctrine experience a different reality. Nothing weird or earth-shakingly different. No crystals or herbs or inner vibrations required either. Just this:

clarks exist (in the world) as the perennial outsider. They are normal in every other respect, it’s just that they know that they don’t belong, they are not like other people. But, at the same time clarks are the quiet, creative, funny (except you have to really pay attention or you’ll miss their jokes), self-deprecating, hardworking people that are there all around you all this time;
scotts are so in your life (and you will get this description only if you are not a scott) but they are the natural leaders, natural salespeople, natural entertainers… you getting the theme here with this personality type? natural. scotts are the people who live life by the moment without restraint, consideration, forethought, it’s a wonder they live as long as they do
rogers (you know who you are, and right now you are denying it) rogers are the everyday, friendly, easy to talk to people that populate every workplace and classroom and corner bar. rogers will be the person you turn to when you have a secret and rogers will be the one you turn to when you want to learn the latest gossip, they are the engineers, the lawyers, the doctors and heart and soul of every PTA and neighborhood watch program in the world.

The Doctrine is different from all the other mainstream and respectable personality and self-improvement systems out there because we insist that it is not just you, it is the world itself that accounts for your life, it’s trials and tribulations, good times, bad times (we know you’ve had your share).
What sets us apart and the reason you should spend time here, is that the Wakefield Doctrine offers everyone a set of tools that is specifically meant for not only your personality type, but (these tools) are meant to work and be useful in the world that you are living in today!

*the ‘extra’ words in the Title today were supposed to look like they were ‘drawn’ over the original Title, you know…graffiti like whatever

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stodgy? slow and un-exciting Interviewer??! …the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Morning Serial

January 28, 2012 By clarkscottroger

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

So you think we don’t know how to “kick” “loose” around here at the Wakefield Doctrine, huh? Is that what you think? Well, I must take exception with that characterization ( WTF!! stop talking, send the clark back to work…bring on the movie!! )

Well, it may not be Road Runner cartoons with Coco Puffs al fresco, but here is our newest Feature* the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Morning Serial!!

*motto: we will just keeping putting stuff up there until they give up and start following the Doctrine

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Video Friday! “Det ar en fin bil och min hatt ar vacker!!” the Wakefield Doctrine theory of personality

January 27, 2012 By clarkscottroger

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

You know how cool this Doctrine thing is, right? …so cool that it has been successfully predicting it’s own ‘development’ right from the very damn start! We said, way the hell back in the beginning of this blog, that the first people we would attract would be the ‘exceptional’ ones, the ones that had, (the term we coined was), ‘flexible intelligence’. The emphasis on ‘flexible’, ’cause it is about a person’s natural ability to take an odd idea and make it odder. We have not been disappointed!

Today’s Video Friday is a perfect example of our penchant for attracting the ‘best and the most creative’!
As we all know, everyone who is active on the internet is pretty bright, and not overly shy. But the people we have been fortunate to meet, here at the Wakefield Doctrine are that plus…creative and adventurous and driven to find ‘the edge’, in other words: creative.

Today’s Guest Ms. Claire Peek! A Friend of the Doctrine (FOTD), Claire is a prolific and talented Authoress, currently engaged in ‘going as a student to the school there‘¹ and still finding the time to join us for Video Friday. damn! At the outset of the year, Claire created two blogs that are totally fun to follow, so stop by Wordy World (and) Perfect World you will so not regret it!

I trust the transcription conveys the ‘conversation’ that existed between the Doctrine and Claire. This, text and video format holds much promise for bringing people to the blog that, due to constraints imposed by geography or time-zonology might not have the opportunity to otherwise do so.

So call or write in. Tell us that you want to come on the air for a Video Friday and we will be all over that shit.

1) a line attributed to ‘the Lady’…you need to ask DS#1 or Progenitor roger about it

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“Sing a song of Sixpence, a pocket full of rye…” what is it about rogers and the Past? the Wakefield Doctrine pauses, reflects and offers you Pie*

January 26, 2012 By clarkscottroger

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

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.^[1]^[2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!! dude, yo when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past. Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)
most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!
the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**
in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers love repeating patterns
the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while
hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:
…Ken Burns…

This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott! As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”

I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***

Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_a9irWZtxQ

** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)

*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of all non-herd members

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…if you could change one thing about yourself…right now! would you? the Wakefield Doctrine’s system of self-improvement

January 23, 2012 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding people and their ‘personalities’.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding ourselves and our ‘personalities’.
The Wakefield Doctrine is unique and useful, fun and annoying.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience life in one of three characteristic worldviews: the world of the outsider, the world of the predator and the world of the herd member. The worldview that we choose to experience determines our ‘personality type’, not a making up a List of behaviors/Likes/phobias.
The goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is to enable us, through observation of another’s actions, to infer the worldview of the other person. Know their reality, know their personality.

There are two immediate benefits:

we not only understand the ‘why’ of the person’s behavior, but we are able to predict their future behavior
by understanding the nature of the world we ourselves experience, we are then able to see our strengths and our weaknesses much, much more clearly

Finally, the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the idea that while we all ‘choose’ one of the three worldviews to live our lives in, we never lose the capability to live in the world of the ‘other two’ worldviews. It is this that give us the most effective tool for self-development, for self-improvement.
For example, if I am a clark and I desire to become a more effective ‘public speaker’, then I need only to take advantage of the fact that I have the capacity to live in (and therefore) act appropriately in the world of scotts. The energy, the drive, the directness that make scotts very good public speakers is within me. All I have to do is call it out.

So, hey! Monday Morning Gossip and Goodies:

Great Saturday Night Drive!
Claire and Molly have been way, too way busy! Claire, in part because besides writing Comments here and Posts on her own blog, she is also now ‘going as a Student to the school there’. (Best ask DS#1 or the roger) and Molly welll! Molly is increasingly adding an element of elegant reserve to our Saturday Night conversations which is providing the grounding that forms a perfect backdrop for the energetic input of our more scottian participants …nice!
…heard from Nell Rose over the weekend (she is well and sends her best and will surely be talking to us in a Video Friday in the near future..)
‘KH has started to hand Downspring glenn’s ass to him on scrabble more and more ( it’s a scottian thing…not a bad thing…better ask one of them)
DS#1 continues to give a voice to the Doctrine that is more and more useful to the newer Readers! (“…oh! so that is what that Post was trying to convey! …why the hell didn’t he just say that! lol thanks DS” )
the roger sits and watches, waits and knows that there will come a moment when the reassuring sound of the herd grows around the Doctrine blog and he will step and say, …”what? no I won’t and you can’t make me!”