Month: January 2013 | the Wakefield Doctrine

the week ahead, the Wakefield Doctrine “…and the traffic lights turn a blue tomorrow”

January 20, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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This will be a brief Sunday Morning Post.

Am recovering from a case of Influenza, should be getting back to normal (writing) schedule this week. In point of fact, we can look to the week ahead for:

a) the next Installment in our Serial: ‘Birthday Party at the Calypso Club’.

The Wakefield Doctrine has been seeing a rapid increase in Readers of late, I thought it might be best to give the ‘backstory’ to this really fun story that we have unfolding, on Mondays.

We created the story of ‘the Birthday Party at the Calypso Club’ as a vehicle to present and illustrate the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. As is the case in real life, everyone in our tale is (either) a clark or a scott or a roger. This Serial (story) serves not only to present examples of the (personality types), but it also lets Readers see the unique ways that the three personality types interact. Of course, those who have followed the story from the beginning know which personality types each of the characters are and, anyone sufficiently versed in the Wakefield Doctrine, but has not read the story, will, nonetheless recognize each of the characters by personality type. For everyone else, here’s a quick Cliff Notes* on the Characters in our little story:

Alex Delguidice: scottian woman
Sam: clark
Violet: clarklike female
Meg: scottian woman
Mel: roger
Jen (or Jennie): rogerian female
Jimmie: scott

b) Wednesday is the Wakefield Doctrine 30 Minute Radio Hour on the BlogTalkRadio, always interesting!

c) Friday of this week I see that another ‘blog hop’ is scheduled, this time co-hosted by none other than Terrye Toombs (aye carumba!) , (along with Janine and Kate) you won’t want to miss that.

I am toying with the idea of using the Wakefield Doctrine’s Conference Call feature (that we use to host the Saturday Night Drive Call-in Show) for other purposes.
Show of hands: Anyone have an interest in a live Writer’s Chat and/or Clinic? Figure we could do maybe 60 minutes at a time to be determined this week? It would be a chance to talk, in realtime, about issues and concerns regarding blogs and blog writing. I’ve done a couple of ‘Writer Clinic’ calls with Molly, and the benefit of actually talking, as opposed to Comment…Reply…Comment is very superior.

(The Conference Call is simply a regular phone number (nothing 900 like) and an access code…I have not heard from anyone calling into the Saturday Night Drive that it is particularly expensive to call or anything… hell I think it’s a Minnesota exchange…how exotic can that be?)

Let us know your thoughts

* do they still produce Cliff Notes? for the younger Readers, Cliff Notes was basically google before the internet…except in print and specific to a single topic, just in case you needed to report on ‘War and Peace’ and your girlfriend took your copy when she ran off with your buddy and left you staring at the posters on your dormitory room walls…wondering if you could go on.**

** lol sorry… memory fragment from a book project…. maybe the Influenza has not totally left the building yet.

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the last time I went on vacation, I… (the Wakefield Doctrine and the Treaty of Tordesillas)

January 18, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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…I have not taken a real vacation in longer than I can remember. In the last few years I developed what is, for me, the perfect form of vacation*. I travel for business once or twice a year, conferences and such, in places like Salt Lake City and Dallas. A few years ago I decided that instead of flying directly home, I should go somewhere cool. For some reason, the rule governing these Road Trips is that I can go anywhere, provided I get home the same day I would have, had I flown directly back. (Could be 11:59pm…but got to be the same day). Naturally, the Wakefield Doctrine figures into these Road Trips. The Doctrine maintains that there is something called the Right of Hat, which allows a person to lay claim on people, places and things…mostly places. (This is not just a whimsical idea, the Right of Hat is a further application of the Treaty of Tordesillas.)

In any event, here is a video of my Road Trip to Estes Park Colorado, specifically,

The Stanley Hotel

Since I never write a Post without offering some sort of insight into the Wakefield Doctrine, below is how the Doctrine sheds light on the persoanlity types found among travellers and vacationers, alike.

scotts: They are (the) natural tourists and travellers, driven by the instinct to find the new, fresh hunting grounds. With their trademarked confidence and certainty, scotts love to explore and provided they do not get totally lost, they become experienced travellers. They can be fun travelling companions, especially if you are interested in the local culture, as your travelling scott is drawn to the local people and customs like a dog in a butcher shop.

rogers: Our methodical friends do travel, but are not drawn to the idea of travel for the sake of exploring new locations. After all, rogers know the world as it should be and anything that does not match (their) description, kind of doesn’t matter so much. Having said that, the majority of the ‘tourism industry’ owes it’s very existence to rogers. Seeing how it is the rogerian tendency to ‘live by storyboard’, it is only natural that a form of travel and tourism should develop to meet the needs of those rogers with a sense of adventure. That’s why they invented the: guided-packaged-tours (lead by some local semi-celebrity) for the Trip of a Lifetime to places like: the Holy City, New York City, River City, New Jack City, the City of Tomorrow, or the Town that Time Forgot. rogers, will so buy souvenirs, postcards and other proof-of-being-there items. And photos!! They totally will have volumes of intricately catalogued and cross-references, tabbed-index and short synopsis at (the bottom of each) photos of every place they believe they have been to!

clarks: Now here’s a surprise, clarks will be the most skilled of travellers, at least among the small percentage (of clarks) that actually venture out of their: rooms, homes, apartments, familiar parts of their hometown, parents basements, friends living rooms. When required to travel to strange and exotic places, the innate flexibility/adaptability almost always allows the clark to become a skilled traveller.

Thats about it. (btw nothing helps develop your Doctrine skills like sitting in the front of the airplane as the rest of the passengers embark! you watch and you learn)

*vacation in this context means the ‘go to strange places and see interesting things’ as opposed to getting away from the daily routine in order to rest and recreate.

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‘Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe’ the Wakefield Doctrine ‘maybe, if we show you the 3 personality types in action, it will help’

January 16, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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Everyone good with the basic idea of the Wakefield Doctrine?:

it’s how a person relates themselves to the world that is important
(it’s not about a list of likes and dislikes and quizzes and grids…that’s so 1990’s Psychology Today)
we are all born with the potential, the capability, to experience the world in one of three ways (aka worldviews)
Outsider: clark, predator: scott or herd member: roger
we all settle into one worldview early on (called the predominant worldview)
we never lose the capability of ‘the other two’ ways of relating to the world, which explains how sometimes you seem to be more than one type
watch a person and, (from knowing the outward characteristics ), infer how a person is relating to the world and the rest takes care of itself
look at yourself and, (from knowing the outward characteristics) infer how you are relating to the world and the rest is up to you

Good.

Then lets get all audio-visual on your metaphorical asses… (that, by the way, is meant to get you into the mood for Adult language that will totally make the following two video clips so much fun!) (If you like to play your blogs to young children and/or rogers…you might want to ‘pre-listen’ to these.)

First up is an excellent illustration/demonstration of the scottian personality type. Not to sound all clinical and professory and such ( yeah, right!), here’s what to watch for: obviously David Caruso’s character is a scott, Robert De Niro who is Caruso’s partner in the movie, is a clark and the guy that Caruso demonstrates his scottian aspect with is a roger.

Next we will watch a scott and a roger interact. Easy to picture scotts, them being so…. so scottian …rogers, on the other hand, are more subtle. In this scene, watch how James Spader’s character defends against attack (by Jack Nicholson’s character)… not really as passive as they may seem at first, no? We all know how we can recognize scotts ‘by the eyes’, while the eyes are not a primary identifying characteristic in rogers, this scene does provide a very good example of ‘the look of a roger‘ And listen to what the Spader character is saying, it’s all about emotion… all in terms of feeling. And you all remember that the rogerian worldview is all about the emotion-thing, right?

Hey big shouted-out thanks to Stacy for the Comment that got me to thinking about how to better illustrate the types, ‘keep at it Stacy, you have the basics, let it go and the rest will fall into place‘ and to Molly, who in our weekly 20 Minute Writing Clinic (telephone conference) pointed something out about Alex (in the Calypso Club story), that lead to another point about writing which ended up reminding me about the Caruso video… and lastly, (at least for today) better go over to the girlie blog DS#1 has been busy over at ‘the Edge…writing stuff that might be considered, ‘Wakefield Doctrine for Dummies’ (provided the dummies are really imaginative, perceptive…outstanding language skills and pick up stuff real quick) ( …on second thought, better make that ‘the Wakefield Doctrine for smart-asses, giant-brains, head-in-the-clouds folks and the people who have them for friends’)

The 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, ‘can we make it any simpler?…sure we can!’

January 15, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that there are three personality types: clarks, scotts and rogers, i.e. you and your brother, your wife and the guy who reads the water meter, the person who sold you the computer that you are reading this on and your 9th Grade Science Teacher, they will all be found to exhibit the characteristics of these (3) types.

The Wakefield Doctrine is different, (from the other personality systems that you might be familiar with), in that the Doctrine is founded on the idea that there are three main ways that people relate themselves to the world.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that understanding how a person relates themselves to the world is the key to understanding why they behave the way that they do. Learning the characteristics of these three worldviews, (ways of relating to the world), lets you appreciate how the world, reality and everything is appearing to the other person. Know how the world looks to another person and you will, in a sense, know more about them than they know about themselves.

For the Wakefield Doctrine, you, me and everyone else relate to the world in one of three characteristic ways:

as an Outsider, the clark personality types knows that they are ‘apart from’ everyone and everything else. Not necessarily as dramatic as the word may sound* one doesn’t need to have a long beard and be reclusive or otherwise strange to be an Outsider, what makes clarks Outsiders is that they consider the world to be something ‘out there’ ( as in I am sitting here typing, in an hour I will have to get up and deal with the world out there)…not a part of, separate from
as a Predator, the world, to a scott is basically a hostile place where (nearly) everything (and everyone) is a threat or is prey… not that scottian women are ruthless and aggressive concerned only with protecting the pack, providing shelter and sustenance, ever alert for the threats that are all around… but you know that they are
as the member of a herd would, there are people who live in the world and the world (to them) is governed by rules and standards, for the rogers the universe is a quantifiable place where 2 + 2 always = 4 and life, (for the rogerian personality type) is spent in the pursuit of not only this common world but they seek the history and tradition of those they consider part of their herd, the better to experience the natural order of life

There you have it.

So today, when you are at the supermarket to buy extra milk and some (fresh) Cale, as you stand in the line at the checkout counter, look around. That girl working the register two aisles over? Yes, orange hair would make getting a better job a little more challenging, she gets that, the thing of it is, she believes that she can dye her hair one boring color (when the right job comes along) and she certainly doesn’t mind taking out most of the jewelry semi-permanently attached to her body (when she is really ready to settle down) and if you asked her, (as her mother did last weekend for the 9 millionth time), why she didn’t finish school and maybe meet somebody nice and reliable and not so..unsavory, she would look at you with a penetrating glance (just for a second) and then probably say, “yeah whatever, why don’t you let me do this on my own?”

And if you have a chance, (the line is moving kinda slowly), to glance over towards the Customer Service Desk you might see a middle-aged man with a nameplate that identifies him as Manager, this title framed, if you will by the matching gold Cross pen and pencil in his shirt pocket. If you can tune out the noise of the customer in front of you, you might hear him try to tell the young man in charge of shopping carts that he must stop running as he returns the carts to the front of the store. The young man he is talking to will seem bored with the speech, but what’s really strange is that if you catch his eye he actually stares back at you and smiles. Slightly uncomfortable you look back at the 1/2 gallon of milk and the (fresh) Cale as it moves towards the fairly surly middle-aged woman who never once looks up as she rings up your purchase and you think, “those Wakefield Doctrine people might just be on to something!”

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the Wakefield Doctrine announces the Winner of the (1st) Annual ‘Shortest Post’ Contest!!

January 13, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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Steve Crabtree

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous!

Congrats, Steve

Seriously. Steve is the Doctrine’s Man in Texas, a professional musician ( well, a drummer ) and a self-identifed roger!

We met Steve a couple of years back, he picked up the Doctrine straight-away and not only does he have a Wakefield Doctrine hat (on his damn head) but also has a couple of Wakefield Doctrine DocTees! Hey!! you heard it here first!! When the fashion mags are all a buzz (or a-twitter) …or aghast at the fashion trend in golf caps and tee shirts springing up on the Texas fashion scene, you will feel so in the know.

Steve has a reverbnation site, of course. But since most people are on ‘the Facebook’ ( motto: ‘it’s not just for rogers anymore!’) Do us a favor: go to Steve’s page and give that ‘ol boy a ‘LIKE’ and tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya!