Month: January 2013 | the Wakefield Doctrine

just when I think there is nothing to write about, I see something like this…. the Wakefield Doctrine (life, she is but a metaphor, non?)

January 30, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

Damn, some days, this Wakefield Doctrine blog just writes itself! We always try to describe the Wakefield Doctrine as ‘ a unique, productive and fun way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives.’ Well, today’s Post is all about ‘the fun’ of the Wakefield Doctrine. We usually talk about spotting the clarks, scotts and rogers in our lives as ‘the fun’ of the Doctrine, and it is! Today’s example, of the fun, is one of those situations that simply jumps up and grabs you by the shoulders, shouting ‘look! look at the manifestation of a scottian worldview! right here at work’!

Here’s the set-up for the story behind the photo, above:

My office recently had to move into temporary quarters, due to renovation to our permanent space. A small building was fixed up to serve as office space, essentially one big room, space for 6 or 7 desks and other work areas. Nothing in the way of areas were assigned, it was simply a matter of ‘find a place to set up and get comfortable for the stay of 3 months’. One of our administrators is a scott Karen, (seen on travel adventures here) was one of the first to move into the new building, the first to establish her own work area, which was in one corner (of the office space) to the right of the main entrance. Other people using the building found desks set up throughout the large open room. Fine. (Did I mention that Karen was a scott? you do know about scotts, right? the Behavioral Metaphor* is that of the predator… hunter, king of the beasts….)

In any event, today I came into the office and stood for a second looking in the general direction of Karen’s work area. She had made some changes since I had last been in the office. The water cooler had been moved from a back section of the office and a plant (Christmas Cactus) had been brought in… and placed in front of her desk, providing some screening and privacy and the water cooler, was now immediately in front of her desk area, (Did I mention I was a clark and Chief Articulator for the Wakefield Doctrine?) … well, even for me, it took a second for the pieces to fall into place (for the gestalt to form, as our psych friends might say), and then it was, OMG…am I really seeing this? I immediately took the photo that you see above. Can I get an lol? I laughed the kind of laugh that people do when they see something amazing that has been in front of them, but only just became apparent, the kind of laugh you laugh when you hear a really, really good rogerian expression. The Wakefield Doctrine manifesting in ‘real life’ very fun.

Anyone not see the fun in the Wakefield Doctrine?*

*literal-minded rogers, do not feel self-conscious! Remember you are the ‘repers of intelligence’ and “…made the trains, to carry the heavy loads”
But here’s the thing: scotts are the predators…and, in nature, many species of predators hunt the small watering holes that are found in their local environment. They lie in wait for small animals (and other prey) to come and drink.
Karen, as a scott, has, by her arrangement of plants and ‘watering hole’ appears to have demonstrated that “ontogeny (has) recapitulated phylogeny” …purely in a sociological sense of the phrase.

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the Wakefield Doctrine…. ‘if you have not yet listened to a (Doctrine) video Post, this is probably not the one to start with…’

January 27, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

Very cool Saturday Night Drive last night! Ya shoulda been there! Jennifer and Denise and Molly all called in! Very stimulating…

But you weren’t, (‘there’) but that’s ok. (…’cept for Cyndi! Cyndi yo!… we need you to call in next week, your name came up and we all agreed, ‘hey, you know who would also get a lot out of this call?… lol)

Anyway this is Sunday ~~Morning~~ Afternoon. And since we are getting back into the old rhythm of things, we’ll keep it short. We’re working hard on the Wakefield Doctrine 30 Minute Radio Hour (on BlogTalkRadio Wednesday 4 pm EST) and while it still is more of a ‘live blog Post’ I thinking I’m about ready to learn how to handle Call ins and/or On Air Interviews. So call in this week. Go ahead and let me know what you want to try (as far as on air… Q&A, Explanation, etc ) and bear with me and we’ll have some fun in front of (potentially) millions of people!

(If you haven’t had a chance to participate in one of our Saturday Night Drive Calls, here is an example of what we consider a good conversation:

we were talking about stress, or something related to stress and Molly made a statement to the effect that, “that what would happen to me in that situation is that I would yell, not scream”
The rest of us instantly recognized the ‘potential’ in her statement, some said, “so which is which, a yell and a scream…rogerian and scottian (aspects).
We all agreed, that in duress, the rogerian extreme is manifested as ‘yelling’ and in a scottian extreme it would be comprised by screaming. Molly further clarified her thought by saying, “it is necessary, when going off as a roger to maintain the voice as a yell, as the words that are being expressed at volume are the important part of the exercise” (as opposed to) the scottian expression of a scream which is simply raw energy and verbal aggression.
I furthered the conversation with the Progenitor roger, he expanded the understanding of the difference of a yell and a scream, from the Doctrine perspective by saying, “it is critical that a roger maintain control on the yelling, because despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that excess emotion is being expressed, if the person loses control of the yell(ing), and it transforms into a scream, then all will be lost”
Succinctly put, for a roger to express an extreme of emotion, yelling is an act of control, but it remains still a message (the content of the yell) the volume serves merely to enhance the presentation. To allow the energy, the emotion to take over is to invite a descent into the (individual’s) scottian worldview, which means that the roger loses all perspective.)

Did I tell you we have fun on these calls or what!

Anyway, we do have fun.

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‘…of sharing and belonging’ the Wakefield Doctrine ‘so how’s that little campaign to bring the Doctrine to the world, coming along?’

January 25, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

the purpose of this Post is to….

It has been said of the Wakefield Doctrine (specifically) and of creativity (generally) that:

clarks: despite being the only one of the three capable of genuine creativity, are totally ‘un’-‘non’-‘ill’-‘dys’ -equipped to present a new idea to the world in an effective manner
scotts: despite being the most charismatic of the three personality types, has neither the need, nor the desire, to associate themselves with an ‘idea’ any further than is necessary to have people pay attention to them in the moment
rogers: because of their innate (and prodigious) talent for self-promotion are, in fact, most commonly found as the figurehead for most ideas that create followings among people, have no interest whatsoever in the idea itself, convinced that the attention that is being focused is simply the natural order

Dealing with, accommodating and adapting to the above personality type qualities, has been the Challenge facing this blog since the first Post in June 2009. In fairness to the author, we should state that the original goal of the Wakefield Doctrine blog was to create a following (of) the idea of ‘personality types as functions of personal realities’ and to develop a public forum, a platform upon which the uses of this perspective on human behavior could be presented, exhibited and displayed. The thinking, (behind this approach), was simply that the more people who learned about the Doctrine, the more people would contribute to the knowledge base that would grow around the blog itself.

Or so the thinking went…

From the very first year, the scotts (those associated with the blog that were of a scottian personality type) were all, “what the hell are you talking about!!! Nobodys gonna read that boring crap!! you gotta get in their face and make ’em pay attention!! say ‘fuck’ a lot!!! that’s what will keep them focused… pictures music no body is gonna read a droning on and on and on about how the psychological implications!!! you want Readers then you got to be exiting!!! …. oh, yeah fuck!!”

And, to a certain extent, we do not disagree. In fact, we have never disagreed with their insistence on presenting the Wakefield Doctrine with an element of excitement and life, something that would draw the attention of the causal blog-browser. Our objection to the scottian obsession with movement and noise and energy, has simply been that, for a scott, the attention (of others) is the end in and of itself. A scott does not attract attention in order to…. a scott attracts attention because that is where the energy is, life is about living, (for the scott) and energy and motion and activity is what you do to know you are alive.
…so, no help there.

From the very first year , the rogers (those associated with the blog that were of the rogerian personality type) were all, “sure…tell the tale and they will follow”
As a matter of fact, it was a long-held belief that it would take either a roger or my developing my rogerian aspect in order to create the voice in these Posts that would attract Readers. The thinking was that, rogers being the masses in the first place, were the only ones who could shape the words, impart the style that would resonate with the Readership.
That was almost true.

For a roger to present a new idea to the world, requires that the roger first tell the world about how successful they are and only then, when the Readers come closer, drawn by the light of fame ( a light being held by the roger on themselves), will they be willing to learn of this new and interesting personality theory.

…so, no help there.

So where does that leave us?

…well, even though this Wakefield Doctrine blog has not become a:

yelling, screaming flashing lights and breasts and omg-I-can’t-believe-you-said-that funny place with lots of wicked funny Comments and all and other scottian whoopee cushions ( literarily speaking) and
we are not holding forth on “...why, yes, as I was saying just the other day to another person who thinks I am wonderful, well I was starting to say something really inciteful but we were both interrupted by a famous blog writer who said that this was so wonderful they couldn’t believe why this blog was not more famous and I said, ‘why darling, of course it is, but you’re kind of narrow gauge yourself aren’t you'”

We do talk with people like Molly and Denise and Jennifer and roger and Steve, and Jasmine and Cyndi and Janine, Melanie, Terrye, Chris, Emily, Amy, Michelle, Rich, Kate

…all and all, not bad so far, not bad.

the Wakefield Doctrine a personality theory (use only as directed; stop using immediately if the following feelings and thoughts occur: peace, tranquility and self-confidence)

January 23, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine (offers) a way of understanding the people in our lives.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the behavior of people in our lives.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a fun and funny take on how people act, at home, in school, at work and everywhere in our lives.

…so you got to be asking yourself, at this stage, ‘what the hell does he mean “in our lives” ‘ and “...who said it is any of his damn business!” and finally “…what gives the Wakefield Doctrine any right to say anything about “my lives“?”

Valid Points! But first, 2 caveats about our theory of personality: the Wakefield Doctrine is an incredibly unique, useful and fun way to observe the human condition, offering a skewed perspective that is all the more insightful for being so ‘off-center’ however,

if you are one of those people for whom the words, ‘but first allow me to present some supporting empirical data‘ sounds like ‘hey, lets not go out tonight, I brought something special for us…no! leave the phone off the hook‘ then you will not be getting a lot from the Wakefield Doctrine.

And while, many of us have the required intellectual… ambition to take an idea and see what it can do, just for the sheer fun of it,

if you are one of those people for whom the phrases: ‘endorsed by‘, or the reassuring ‘fully reviewed and approved by‘ or the safe, ‘read and admired by the most popular blog writers in the country‘ hold the same attraction as “the first setting is for initial relaxation, use fully‘ or ‘for full flavor add an extra half tsp‘ or even ‘persist more than 4 hours, see a doctor‘ holds for the rest of us, let me save you some trouble, the Wakefield Doctrine is not for you.

However, if you are insatiable when you find a new idea, if you can’t resist taking the side road, instead of the Interstate lets take a look at that ‘lives of yours’.

We all live in what we call a predominant worldview, (which is) the characteristic way that we relate ourselves to the world and the people and everything we do. There are three (worldviews) that correspond to the three personality types of the Doctrine, i.e. clarks, scotts and rogers. We are all born with the capability of all three, but pick one at an early age and we ‘grow up and develop’ in one of these three worldviews:

the worldview of the Outsider (clarks): we know that we are different, we suspect that everyone else knows that we are different and we are pretty certain that if we think and learn and watch and work real hard, we will discover the thing that we seemed to have missed, the thing that would allow us to be ‘a part of’ (in the meantime) we are creative, self-critical, eternally optimistic and unforgiving of ourselves, giving of our selves to family and friends to an extreme and yet unable to accept the same in return, at least in the way that others seem to show it

the relating to the world as a Predator (scotts): no time to sit and think, life is meant to be lived, the world is exciting and it is threatening, the best course of action is simply to act, you don’t so much know what you want from life and people as you feel it, you are impetuous and mercurial and you will defend your friends and family to the death and if there are people around and they are not a threat, then they are there to watch you… you don’t care if people disapprove of you as long as you are not ignored, life is meant to be lived end of story

the world in which you are a Member of the Herd (rogers): life makes sense, anyone who suggests that it doesn’t is dangerous, fitting in is good, you don’t worry about ‘belonging’ anymore than you wake up hoping that the sun rises in the East or that ‘up is up and down is down’ life is nearly perfect, provided you work hard to understand the Rules and help others appreciate them, you know that god lives in the details and he has (somehow) asked you to help let everyone know that, you are impatient with those who do not understand what everyone understands and you enjoy the aggressive ones who try to make your life more difficult, it is a tribute to your tenacity that they will try to get you to stray from your self-appointed task in life… life is perfect in the center.

That should hold you…. about those ‘lives’? we’ll get back to them tomorrow.

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Allegory Monday the Wakefield Doctrine the party moves into the adult zone

January 21, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

(When last we looked in on our friends: Sam escaped the clutches of Jen (or Jennie) and was walking into a potentially exciting, if not unpredictable, situation, Violet resolves to stop being sensible and embarks on a mission that, at once exciting, is not without considerable personal, professional and (even) emotional risk and Mel…now where the hell is Mel!?! If you are new to the Series, the completes story is on this Page).

“…and then my uncle Victor says to the Board, ‘…because he’s my goddamn nephew!!’ Jimmie was attempting to come across as being very sophisticated, but was, in fact, answering a question that Alex didn’t really want an answer to, “and so here I am, a man on the move up in the Corporation!”

Her eyes closing as she continued to dance, Alex began to regret saying yes when Jimmie asked her to dance. Feeling the attention of everyone in the room when she walked into the Samba Room, was good. It made her feel that old excitement, that sense of being alive in a roomful of people who were all potential conquests. But now, 20 minutes later, the initial excitement over, and despite closing her eyes in the hope that Jimmie would get that what she wanted to do was dance, not talk, Alex could hear Jimmie’s’ whisky-scented words on her ear,

“...said, my uncle is watching my progress in the Corporation” Jimmie’s voice penetrated the illusion of privacy that her eye lids had promised. Despite his unrelenting effort to impress her, Alex suddenly realized that she was totally enjoying dancing to the set of music from the 1970s, ‘…can’t imagine why my parents seemed so down on the 1970’s , this music is perfect for fun-dancing’, Alex thought.
Caught up in the simple pleasure of letting her body respond to the rhythms of the music, Alex found her mind drifting back to the years when she moved to the city, Wharton MBA in one hand and a job Offer in the other even with so much hard work required every day, she always seemed to have time on the weekends to spend with friends, when she moved to the city to start her career at the Corporation. Elbowing aside her reminiscing, like a drunk at the bar when last call is announced, Alex thought she heard Jimmie say something that sounded like, “…are you serious?” Hoping to get in one more dance before having to deal with Jimmie, Alex barely slowed her body as the band broke into an old disco standard, ‘Best of My Love’,
….in the split second of silence between the last note of one song and the first note of the next, she heard a decidedly contralto voice say, “yeah, as a matter of fact, I am cutting in”. By now the band was at full volume, normal speech volume again impossible, so Alex simply smiled at the girl dancing in front of her. Jimmie, looking unable to decide if he should be angry or intrigued, stepped away from the two women.

“… now, this evening has definitely taken a turn for the interesting” thought Alex as she met the challenge in the attractive young girls eyes. Returning her smile, no longer wanting to hide behind closed eyes, Alex began to feel like she had made the correct decision again. ‘You haven’t lost it, girl’, Alex laughed inwardly, ‘back in the day, before you could afford the designer clothes and $500 shoes everyone waited for you to arrive before the real party could begin… and seemingly out of nowhere, the thought formed in her mind, ” maybe the career success, the corner office thing is not the end all and be all, what good is the success, if I don’t have fun in life and have someone to share it with?”

Abandoning herself to the music, Alex felt like she was 23 years old again…

Meg stared at the guy walking towards her. Her first impression was that of a very well-dressed man, professional and confident. As Sam got closer, that impression…. changed. The clothes were very expensive, but worn and a bit frayed… and his shoes, Meg thought, “My God! those are Berluti!! what the hell...?”. But then, as he drew closer, she could see that the heels were a bit worn, “new soles and heels for that pair will cost more than I make in a week… well, maybe one of my ‘off weeks’ “! Meg laughed to herself.

“I said, …if you’re not careful, you could pop out of the cake prematurely…do they have a signal to let you know when to jump up?” Sam was talking as he approached the scantily clad girl. She seemed hesitant to climb the stepladder that was set up to allow access into the cake through a round, manhole-like opening in the top…all and all, a very precarious arrangement. But there was something to the look in this girls eyes that made Sam think that it was not a fear of heights, it was something else entirely.

“Well, ya know, I really kinda doubt that anyone in this crowd will be shocked by a premature pop-up“, Meg laughed and found herself relaxing from the very weird feeling that had come over her when she looked up at the top of the giant birthday cake. Hearing Sam’s laughter mix in with her own, Meg decided that, no matter how her performance in the cake was received, she was going to end up with something from the evening that she had not anticipated.

“If you’d like and think it will help, when they wheel the cake out on the stage, I’ll shout out all the significant stats from this years’ League Baseball season” Sam offered as Meg began the climb into the giant birthday cake.

“Trust me“, Meg smiled, “the girl jumps out of the cake at the right moment tonight…I know what I’m doing” Her smile faded as she crouched down in the hidden space, the look that Sam had noticed when he first approached returned to her face. Seeming to make a sudden decision, Meg stood back up and leaned close to Sam, who was stepping off the ladder, and whispered, “Do me a favor and wait for me after my performance, maybe we can go somewhere for breakfast.”

Not sure why the girl felt the need to whisper, Sam whispered back, “…the Red Sox ranked second in the League for the number of games with a player left stranded on 3rd base“.
Meg laughed sharply and pulled the lid over the hidden access. As he watched, 2 of the Waiters maneuvered the wheeled table near the door that opened on to the stage in the Samba Room.

“ Well, this seems to be going… as I planned?” Violet still somewhat in shock at the boldness of her actions, realized that she was slipping back into her more normal mental state, thinking and analyzing her own every move… “oh well, the benefits of mental laryngitis!” she thought, as she danced with the stunning woman, who was smiling at her as they moved to the music. Feeling her confidence slipping away, Violet thought, “Fortune favors the bold…” and laughed out loud at how silly she sounded to herself.
Hearing the girl laugh, Alex forced herself back to the present. “You’re the girl from the Research Department, Violet isn’t it? I’ve heard some pretty impressive things about you”, Alex moved close enough to be heard without having to shout over the music.

Violet stared back at the woman who managed to appear so relaxed and at the same time totally focused on her, sensing that her own bravado was slipping away said, “Well, they’re all correct and if you give me a chance I can be your biggest asset”.
Alex, never taking her eyes off the young woman, smiled.

Mel was beginning to think that the party was going to prove to be a failure. Since the young girl from the Research Department abandoned him, he moved from group to group. No one was very interesting at this party, certainly no one who might be of help to him in his efforts to develop his career.
About to give up and leave, Mel noticed a small group standing at one corner of the Dance Floor, only 3 or 4 people, among them the Host of the Party, Jimmie.
“Now there is someone who would be interesting to talk to, being a nephew of the CEO of the Corporation and all” this thought was enough to cause Mel’s path towards the exit to alter itself, bringing him to the edge of the group.
Mel realized that this was not a group centered around the Host, it was a group formed around 2 women dancing… “nothing unusual in that” thought Mel, and then he recognized the two women. It was that young girl from the Research Department, he still couldn’t quite remember her name and Alex Delgiudice!

“Now the party is beginning to be worth my coming out tonight”, Mel thought, his confidence growing as he saw in his mind, the words of a poster that hung on the wall of his college dorm room, ‘Success in Business begins with people’.

Moving next to Jimmie, Mel leaned over and said, “looks like someone needs to cut in and save Ms. Delgiudice from a boring evening” and confidently walked up to the couple,

“Do you mind if I cut in?”