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…and now this brief message from the ‘really-rather-dull-and-sometimes-boring’ people at the Wakefield Doctrine

September 12, 2012 By

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

‘Course, using the ‘editorial we’* there will be no names named. And the term, dull (as in rather dull) and the term boring  is not being used in a pejorative sense at all. As a clark I will celebrate my d&b qualities and, because of our Wakefield Doctrine, I need no longer hang my head or shade my eyes when someone mentions these qualities.

Nothing from the Swedish Consulate, (at least so far this week), we have high hopes that Karen (‘a real scott’) will make it back home unscathed. In the quiet interim, it might be a good time to review the basics of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, useful and fun way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. With the perspective afforded by the Wakefield Doctrine, you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves. Even better,  you will no longer find yourself saying, “Now why in the world would they go and say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better!”

Unlike most of the other ‘personality theories’ that require you to ask a lot of questions about a person’s likes and dislikes, then makes you add up a score which  is put against a matrix just to give a personality type.  The Wakefield Doctrine is different. It is based on the idea that everyone has a personal reality, what we call a worldview, and it is the character of these worldviews that tell us about the personality type. (According to the Wakefield Doctrine), we are all born with the possibility of living in one of three worldviews (personal realities). These are the world of the outsider (a clark) or the world of the predator ( the scottian reality) or the social matrix (of the roger). At an early age we all settle into one of these three worldviews, which becomes our ‘predominant’ reality. The characteristic responses to the world, as experienced in these three worldviews, is what we call the personality type here at the Wakefield Doctrine.  Furthermore, we never lose the capacity to experience the world as ‘the other two’.  The Wakefield Doctrine describes a person in terms of their predominant worldview (are they a clark or a scott or a roger?) and at the same time, (it factors in how strong an effect are the other two worldviews, the secondary and tertiary worldviews).

But the Wakefield Doctrine, first and continually, is fun.
It is fun to use to look at yourself (if you are a clark) and it is fun to look at other people (with a group of friends if you are a scott) or at the world around you (alone or with a clark, if you are a roger).
With the Wakefield Doctrine, the pastime of ‘people watching’ goes from 1940’s listening to radio to 2012 3-frickin-D High Def movie!

A Warning for new Readers: a) the Wakefield Doctrine is not for everyone! It takes a certain…intellectual…flexibility, adventurousness hell, lets call it a confident playfullness of the mind!  2) if you have what it takes to ‘get’ the Doctrine, you will begin to see people as they are: clarks, scotts and rogers…trouble is, after a while you start to see the people in your life act like the Doctrine says they should, whether you are trying to see it that way or not! We are beginning to think that once a person sees the clarks, scotts and rogers in their lives, there is no not-seeing them.
Consider this as Fair Warning. You know, like those little statements at the bottom of commercials ‘Closed Operating Room, professional neurosurgeon. Do not Attempt at Home!’

OK, that’s it for today.

Write us a Comment and if anyone asks, jast say,  “Karen?? Nej, har jag inte sett Karen (en verklig scott) på ett tag. Jag tror att hon är på jobbet! Ja, det stämmer att hon har varit i arbetet hela veckan!”

 

 

 

1) it would appear that ‘we’ might be employing a damn ‘nosism’!  how cool is this here internet here?

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Live from Sven-der-Gen-deroeverhaffen! an American scott in the Land of the Midnight Sun the Wakefield Doctrine on the move!

September 11, 2012 By

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

Like Archimedes said, “Give us Wakefield Doctrine ‘DocTees’ and enough airfare,  we will totally move the world” (or words to that effect).

Newest Friend of the Doctrine (FOTD) Karen (‘a true scott’) appears to be embracing alternate energy and a good portion of coastal Sweden, by Right of DocTee1!

We are receiving photos at a rate that should have ‘the Facebook’ joining Godaddy in bandwidth hell, as our very own Karen (“a true scott”) roams the  Swedish countryside in search of objects to photograph and/or dress up in the current height of Wakefield Doctrine fashion.
The photo on ‘the cover’ of this Post is the first Karen sent us.  There is a sculpture of a famous local artist (Gustaf Rydberg) in a Park in Malmo, Sweden.  Long sought as a quiet place for artists to come to seek inspiration, a place to bring the children to inspire them to find their own Muse… a grotto amidst the stress of daily life…  Well, his bust belongs to the Doctrine now! lol   Hey, we all know that it is only a matter of time before the ‘international scandals’ start.

Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten:

Lokala invånare uttryckt chock och upprördhet över händelserna kring voguing skulptur av högt lokal konstnär Gustaf Rydberg. Rapporter att det fanns “DocTees” visar i hela Malmö har varit de-bunked, men enligt en lokal bosatta,
“Det fanns denna kvinna, klädd i en svart Tee-tröja med konstiga ord (på engelska) på baksidan och regionen”framsidan”. Och hon hålls försöker sätta skjortan på bilar och tecken och väderkvarnar”

Polisen är förbryllad och frågar om någon har information kontakta dem omedelbart, men det är ingen anledning till oro.2

Well, we all want to say, “Good Work and GodSpeed Karen(‘a true Scott’), Godspeed!”

If anyone gets nervous about the accelerating rate of the fame of our little Doctrine, keep in mind that the very Rev. Sung Yung Moon passed away recently… so there has to be at least 99 million depressed and despondent rogers out there looking for something to keep the herd happy! As our ‘KH says, “Just sayin”

Another photo and we’re out.

 

 

1) an Extension of the Right-of-Hat, the Right-of-DocTee allows the wearer to claim use of whatever or wherever they happen to be! For example, several Posts ago we had a photo sent in by FOTD Jenny, standing in front of the very famous Cavern club in Liverpool. Had it been the right time of day (or night), our Ms J could have breezed right in, past the doorman and had the best seat in the house! Equally, Karen (“a true Scott”) could have halted the proceedings in the Swedish Parliament and demand that meatballs be made a part of the Official Parliament Cafeteria Menu!  How cool is this Wakefield Doctrine?!

2)  Local residents expressed shock and outrage at the events surrounding the ‘voguing’ of the sculpture of revered local artist Gustaf Rydberg. Reports that there were ‘DocTees’ showing up throughout Malmo have been de-bunked, however, according to one local resident,

” There was this woman, wearing a black Tee Shirt with strange words (in English) on both the back and the ‘frontal’ region. And she kept trying to put the shirt on cars and signs and windmills”

Police are baffled and ask if anyone has any information to contact them immediately, however there is no cause for alarm.

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the Wakefield Doctrine: a perspective on human behavior and (a) proposal for three ‘personality types’

September 9, 2012 By

(ahem)….

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

 

Hey, you know that there is an on-going effort to both, ‘write the book on the Wakefield Doctrine‘ and to write a book about the Wakefield Doctrine, right? Cool.
…and. You know that the Comments here and the conversations that happen on our Saturday Night Drives make up the bulk of the ‘write the book on…’ effort?  v good.

Well here’s the thing. These on-going ‘conversations’ are not only important because they are:

  • fun
  • relaxing
  • stimulating
  • challenging
  • aggravating

…but even more importantly because we have reached the point where we need to expand our understanding of how the Wakefield Doctrine works.  A better way of saying it is, we all know the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, the most important of which is that we all live our lives in one of three personal realities/worldviews, right?
And we all know that what other systems refer to as ‘personality types’ is simply the way that anyone would act if they lived in one of these three worldviews. Further, from the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all know that what we call the ‘worldview ‘of the clark is characterized as the life of the Outsider and that the ‘personality type’ that we refer to as scotts, well these are the people who are living in, responding and reacting to, a reality that is best described as the world of the predator and with rogers, we see how a person might choose to act provided that they are perceiving a reality in which the world is quantifiable and there are independent and abstract standards of behavior that all people are  subject to and only by following these Rules is a good life assured.
The thing is, we have recognized the basic things about the characteristics of these three personality types, for example, we all know:

  • if you see a girl with a streak of purple in her hair, footwear with sufficient complexity to set off the airport metal detectors, then you are most likely looking a clark
  • if you are forced to drive into the on-coming lane because there is a group of men riding bicycles while wearing clothing made of a material that was last seen in the 1980s and they are all decorated with corporate logos, then it’s a better than even chance you have just avoided running over a bunch of rogers (shame on you!)
  • should you call across the street to your neighbor that you need your lawn mower back and he proceeds to finish his lawn and pushes it back to your house, without bothering to turn it off…and despite the gravel shooting out of the discharge vent, he doesn’t stop telling you the funniest joke he has ever heard, then you have met your first scott
But this is only the surface of the characteristics of these worldviews! The more detailed the knowledge of how each of the three personality types respond to life, the greater our understanding of why they behave the way that they do.

Let me relate an example of this pushing the boundaries of the understanding of the three personality types. Today I was talking to an associate in my office and for reasons I forget the topic became phone conversations. (Now, this business associate, ‘S’*. is aware of the Wakefield Doctrine and has an understanding of the principles and the characteristics of the three personality types. She, in fact, is a clark with a strong secondary rogerian aspect. Her husband, it was established in earlier conversations, is a roger). In any event, at one point in the conversation today, I said, “hey I bet your husband hates to use the phone” And the answer was “Yes”. Obviously the rest of the conversation was about the Wakefield Doctrine and why it might be that rogers hate the phone!
This is the point of today’s Post, the pushing of the boundaries of understanding of the way that the Wakefield Doctrine is expressed in the lives of the three personality types.

So hurry the hell up and Comment and/or call us on a Saturday, we can use your help. The people who are currently adding to this understanding, people like Ms. AKH and Molly and DS#1 and Steve and them and even the Progenitor roger will totally welcome the additional help!

 

* I told ‘S’ that we are big on the right to choose your own name around here, so I would simply use the single letter, until she announces herself, either in a Comment or on a Call.

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‘hey, did ya notice the little service mark by the title there? the rogers should love that!’ the Wakefield Doctrine…Reprint Saturday!

September 8, 2012 By

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

...yah, and if you believe this, have I got a bridge for you!

No, really…welcome. Don’t click away yet! Have just endured reading yet another, ‘tips to improve the readership of your blog’  advice-posts, and I agreed so much with what the writer said that I decided to start today’s Post with a quote:

In that (incredibly short and unforgiving) time frame, a new visitor decides as to whether, a) They like you, b) They think you have something valuable to bring to the table, c) They’re going to buy ( continue to read) it.   (Ashley Ambirge of   themiddlefingerproject.org )

We all know that the Wakefield Doctrine is a fun, amusing, productive and totally unique way to look at personality types. With the insights provided by the Wakefield Doctrine, the behavior of the people in our lives (can) finally begin to make some sense:

  • if you know that your husband is a scott, then(his) tendency to blow-up over totally minor frustrations will seem less…irrational;
  • if you know your wife is a roger, then her insistence on providing meals that not only come from a cable TV Cooking Show, but it is an exact duplicate of a meal from a cable TV show (so much so that you are half expecting to see one of those fake cooking interns that serve as background set-decoration on shows like America’s Test Kitchen);
  • if you know your boyfriend is a clark, then the incredible flights of fancy that somehow combine genuine intellectual rigor with a creativity that suggests insufficient medication won’t seem so odd;
  • if you know your girlfriend is a scott, then the guys that seem to gather around her at any social occasion that does not involve nuns and has more than 3 people in attendance will not bother you quite as much, because you will be able to have a conversation with the girl, whose boyfriend is doing his best imitation of a Labrador puppy in front of your girlfriend;
  • as the clarklike girlfriend, you will now be able to enjoy the conversation of the clark (who showed up with the scottian girlfriend) and know that ‘rogers will be rogers’ and even though you may give your rogerian boyfriend the silent treatment after this event, you know that you are acting according to your personality type when you try to decide between forgiving the boyfriend and becoming a nun.

The point of the advice column (and the title of today’s Post) is simply that the average Visitor to the Wakefield Doctrine is more than capable of ‘getting it’, the responsibility of the authors (of this blog) is to present what we have in a manner that is clear, concise and easy to understand. The quote above from Ms. Ambirge is referring to the 8 seconds that the average internet tourist will spend on a site, judging if it is worth their time. One of the better salesmen I have known, Alex Mouzas, taught in sales seminars that our strategy must be three-fold.  He would say at the beginning of each session, “tell them what you will be telling them, tell them and tell them what you have told them….pretty simple, isn’t it?”

(OK feeling guilty. The above is the repeat, below is not.)

But, a blog Post is not timeshare sales, nor is it a Sales Training Seminar …hell! a blog Post is not even a Writing Desk*  In our opinion, a blog Post (and blogs themselves) are more  along the lines of being comfortable, virtual soapboxes.

But unlike the Hyde Park soap boxes, we are, in fact, trying to sell you something. Strike that. What we are trying to do is far, far worse than selling. What we are trying to do with this blog is to alter your reality. (If this is your first visit to this here blog here and you happened to have lightly skimmed to this point in this Post, there is a chance, a slight chance that you can continue your life exactly as it was before you came upon the Wakefield Doctrine. …a slight chance.   …nah, too late.)
We’re not trying to be coy, or cute or ponderously precocious… it’s simply that the Wakefield Doctrine is a view of the human experience that, while unique, is still very ‘true’.
The observations on human personality and behavior that we ascribe to the three personality types can be seen in your own day-to-day life. clarks, scotts and rogers act pretty much the way you will read about in this blog. Worse by far, once you ‘get it’, you will not necessarily be able to stop seeing the people in your life acting like clarks, scotts and rogers. (even you rogers, who will insist to yourself and anyone who listens, how stupid the whole idea of 3 worldviews being the basis for all personality types… you will still see the clarks and the scotts)

I just thought you should have the benefit of a warning. Take it for what you will.

In any event, this started out as a ‘repeat/re-print’ Post, so lets use a little of the pre-written content to get out.

If you are still reading, then:

  • you think you are sure that you know what we mean by scotts, fairly certain that you will recognise a roger and need more  description on clarks
  • you are bothered by the fact that you, yourself seem to be one of these (clark) sometimes, another of these (roger) the rest of the time and a scott (only under duress)
  • you think you would like to come back and read this blog again, but don’t want to bother subscribing, (’cause you get enough email as it is)
  • you have a friend you think would really get a kick out of this and you will try to remember to show it to them later
  • you see that there are music videos, so you figure, what the hell, I’ll play it once…

Hey, you get bored tonight, and you find yourself reading this again, save yourself a lot of trouble and call us! Really. We have one of those conference call things set up… not an 800 number but everyone has unlimited long distance plans nowadays! (the phone number is to somewhere out near where Molly lives)… it should cost you about the same as the movie rental you have as your alternate plan for the evening and will cost you way, way less than the amount you are willing to spend trying to get lucky down at the club tonight…so call us:

1-218-339-0422   access code 512103  #

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the Wakefield Doctrine… “it’s not all read and study and Quizzes and such, we have fun too!”

September 7, 2012 By

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

Alright you Readers!  a show of (virtual) hands, who out there said, ” clarks are the ghosts, scotts are so the werewolves and those rogers? ‘Velcome to my castle’… lol vampires! vampires!”

OK! OK! we’ll do one more easy one and then we talk about the ‘why’ (we know that) they are clarks and scotts and rogers

The Wizard of Oz
The first part of this is so easy only because it’s Friday and we want you all to get it right! Anyone who does not get this one correct is required to call us tomorrow Night* and explain why you should be allowed to continue coming here and reading this thing.
So of the three: the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion which is the clark and which is the scott and which is the roger?

(Bonus Question!! The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch: which is the clark, who is the scott and of the three, the roger is?)

Very good!

Before we dismiss class early, lets talk a little about the Doctrine and the first Quiz. I’m sure everyone correctly answered:  the ghost is a clark and the werewolf is a scott and Count Dracula is a roger. For the benefit of our newer Readers, here is how we came to that conclusion:

  • clarks live in the reality of the outsider. We don’t have to tell the clarks out there, but we will say to you rogers and scotts, there are times, when you are in a group of friends, a clark is standing one person away from you and jumping up and down and yelling and you don’t even hear a thing! Seriously, clarks are so the outsiders that not a week goes by that they do not find themselves, at some point in one of the days of the week, effectively invisible. Maybe not ‘photos-can’t-be-taken’ invisible, but in a group of people for all intents and purposes, they might as well stayed in Cleveland. Hence, the ghost
  • …so you are driving in your car, talking to your friend. Funny, thoughtful, even perceptive you enjoy the exchange of ideas. As you pull up to a traffic light, the first thing you notice is that the car in the lane next to you is full of girls, the next sound you hear is the passenger side window rolling down as your friend, by now physically half out of the car is yelling and hooting and making very loud noises… ah! the fun of scotts!
  • rogers are friendly, very friendly…if you think about the word in a generic sense, they are seductive in their friendliness they seem to hang on every word you say… then sun rises, you open the newspaper…rogers!!
Everyone have a good weekend! Those of you who have phones call us Saturday*. The number is below.
1-218-339-0422  the access code is: 512103 then hit the pound(#) sign  (some people tell us that they have to enter it twice before they get through…but if you want to do this thing, we trust you will do whatever it takes!)  Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive 8:00 to 8:45 pm EDT

 

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