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“…hey this thing makes more sense every day!” the Wakefield Doctrine (…well, today’s vid *could* be thought of as an Easter song! if you’re a clark!! lol)

March 31, 2013 By

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

Hello, Good Morning and today I would like to talk about how, the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers has something to offer (almost) everyone, in the course of (almost) any day.

Exhibit A:

 

Exhibit A:  this is a photo of my cell phone bill. actually it is the Sprint’s ‘Green’ Bill… (Sprint our motto: ‘we care about the environment, er…you might not want to hold that thing next to your brain too, too much, you know?‘)  in any event they send the bill in one of those totally rogerian-designed, (the) envelope is also the return envelope, provided you follow the directions provided! which, Readers of the Doctrine know tells us which two personality types are going to be left out of this embrace-our-planet gesture! clarks and scotts yes ma’am!!
hey! we had a great Saturday Night Drive last night, with Denise and Cyndi  and we got on the topic of telling between two types when there appears to be a mix of characteristics…. a person who seems introverted but is aggressive (at times)…we were looking at the best process to make a determination…and one of the things we agreed upon is that despite, how suggestive of one type a single attribute might be, it is best to remember ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’… which (in the case of the cell phone bill),  means ‘how would a clark look at this frickin stupid envelope and what would be her likely reaction….what would a scott do with an envelope like the one in the photo…an envelope, we might add, that not only came with printed instructions but it made it  abundantly clear that there was a specific sequence to the opening process… Step 1…then Step 2  and only then Step 3!  The photo shows a highly likely outcome for 2 out of 3 of our favorite personality types!
…getting back to our discussion last night, while the outcome would be the same (see photo above)… how the individual got to the point of taking an exquisitely manufactured, near genius-level designed multi-use, highly efficient, envelope and reducing it to something that barely resembles an envelope (much-less an environmentally sound return mailing thingie), does in fact, help us infer if the person was a clark or a scott.
(you got the idea?… imagine what a scott would think/act/do …if frustrated by this envelope, (then) do the same with a clark…
a roger?, in this case, you don’t need to bother…but you get the idea.)
the thing of it is,  sometimes it’s helpful to turn the whole personality type thing around… forget if one style or characteristic behavior is clarklike or scottian or rogerian, instead observe how the person (that you are observing) seems to feel, what they are doing, how they are reasoning out their actions… are they simply acting… are they taking the whole matter very, very personally or do they appear to be trying to understand the thing they are doing… put yourself in their (head or  heart or whatever…)  that is what makes the Wakefield Doctrine the truly useful thing that it is
you know that thing about it could be a clark or a scott?  here’s one of the Doctrine’s favorite bands… Halestorm  ( yes! you’re right! she could be a clark or a scott…. roger?  sorry, not overly likely… ya know what we mean?)

 

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Friends of the Doctrine: Guest Post by Cyndi Calhoun

March 29, 2013 By
Rose Bud Leaves

Being a clark has its perks: you’re creative! This is a photo of tiny budding leaves from a red Rhode Island rose bush in my yard.

I want to thank Clark for giving me an opportunity to guest-post.

I enjoy being a Friend of the Wakefield Doctrine and always look forward to reading all Wakefield Doctrine posts.  They afford me the opportunity to learn more about clarks, scotts and rogers and increase my understanding of the world around me.

From the moment I discovered the Wakefield Doctrine, I was hooked.  I figured out I was a clark almost immediately .  Being a clark is precisely why I enjoy reading the Wakefield Doctrine so much.

So what’s it like being a clark according to the Wakefield Doctrine?

It’s validating.  According to the Wakefield Doctrine, I’m supposed  to daydream.

It’s full of great information.  For the clark personality type, they like learning for learning’s sake.  That’s great because I need an entire room to house all my books and files in my house.  Let’s not talk about all the bookmarks I have on my browser for sites that feed me more information that I ever thought was possible.

I “think” all the time.  I can’t help it.  At the Wakefield Doctrine, I’m in good company.  I’ve met so many other clarks who need to think, too,  and can’t turn off that voice in the head.

Being an outsider is normal.  With every new post, I realize that it’s completely acceptable for a clark to be not part of the herd.  For once, I belong.

It makes me comfortable in my own skin.  Don’t people like that make you slightly crazy?  How they can be so comfortable with the likes of themselves?  Maybe it’s age and not the Wakefield Doctrine at all, but since becoming a regular reader, I understand that when I deal with certain people, they’re going to be emotional (the rogers) and prone to doing things – action – (the scotts) and I can just sit on the sofa in the corner and get lost in my thoughts.

The scotts and rogers may think of clarks as slightly strange, but knowing that it’s who I am, that I can’t change and must keep thinking, I’m more comfortable with the idea that people don’t have to “get me” for me to be myself.

To be sure, the part about “being myself” got easier after I digested information from the Wakefield Doctrine.  Before, I would try harder to fit in (okay not really…I’d just pretend).  I’d have an internal dialogue going on in my head: don’t say that, act quiet, you’re talking too much, you’re too stoical, you’re being weird. That dialogue would get rather difficult to keep up with such that in my attempts to turn it off, I’d really look like I was talking to myself.  Somehow, the Wakefield Doctrine – which is naturally very appealing to clarks – affirms that there is a whole segment (though a minority) of society that is like-minded in the same way.  How refreshing.

The thing about the Wakefield Doctrine, though, is that you always have the potential to learn something new.

In fact, I participated in the last Saturday night call-in and up until that phone call, I thought I was a clark-roger as opposed to a clark-scott for the secondary perspective of my personality.  I thought  I could be part of a herd mentality if I wanted to, right?  But then I found out that the fact that I’m aware that I don’t conform – having a blueberry colored house with a pink porch might be a giveaway – is a dead ringer for not being a roger.  And since I have a scottian secondary aspect, if I am ever backed into a corner, the scottian perspective comes out and it’s not pretty.  Reaction (a hallmark for scotts) takes over.

That’s kind of funny, too, because those rare times when I lose my temper really grab people’s attention.  It happens once every few years – at least for me.  I have a lot of patience, but when my frustration builds up, watch out!

Who knew that that is a clark–scott personality trait?

And I’m definitely not wired to be one of the herd.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a great place for scotts and rogers, too.  It stands to reason that we all can benefit because it helps us to relate ourselves to the world around out there – not how we relate to the world, as Clark would say.

Now that I’ve shared so much about the inner-workings of my thought-process (yet another clark-like characteristic), I will graciously close this post with:

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

About the Author

Friend of the Doctrine

Cyndi Calhoun is a freelance writer, artist and photographer.

You can find her at her website: Pictimilitude

She’s also on Facebook:  Cyndi Calhoun

Twitter: @ccliteraturegrl

And you can add her to your circles on G+: Cyndi Calhoun

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‘Big doins at the Doctrine this Friday!!’ the Wakefield Doctrine (yes, we did use the word ‘doins’ )

March 27, 2013 By

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

Lets get right to it…( some interesting stuff to read under the vid)

clarks think, scotts act, rogers feel

clarks are Outsiders, scotts are Predators, rogers are Herd Members

clarks are still reading, scotts stopped (while laughing at the previous entry), rogers are beginning to get resentful

clarks are at home in their heads, scotts are at home on the range, rogers dream of rolling, grassy hills

if you are a clark… you could finish writing this Post  and you will smile in admiration and pride* when reading  Cyndi’s Post (this Friday)
if you are a scott… you hope that someone will remind you to stop in Friday and you will read and decide that you like this Cyndi person
if you are a roger…you knew we would be writing something like this and you will know that, with this guest writer, you will be able to have your ideas appreciated.

Friday…8 am  be there or being perceived as being comprised entirely of 90 degree angles and surfaces…yo

* pride in your people, you feel good that you have evidence (and even proof) that clarks can take the dreams in their heads and stand up next to them in public, like unruly puppies walking in the park…

 

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‘Funny-You-Should-Mention-That’ Tuesday!! the Wakefield Doctrine (‘say clark, here’s an interesting question from a Reader’) (“Hi yo!…*)

March 26, 2013 By

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

(* you will need to be terribly, terribly old to get this reference, at least to the extent that you encountered it in realtime, as opposed to the ReRun Channel)

In any event, today is FYSMT Tuesday!  …we use the word ‘mention’, as opposed to ‘question’, simply because what has been happening around here of late, is that Readers are reacting to a Post by mentioning a specific event, episode, response or reflection of their own, which, in turn, provides us with a topic for discussion that is much more apropos to where most Readers are at the moment. (…in terms of their understanding of the Doctrine) (…which, of course, totally determines how useful it is) (…the Doctrine, not their understanding) (…yeah, I guess that is sort of the same thing) (…the whole Post? no, I really can’t see putting you through that!) (…no there isn’t a better time than the)

Damn! Got out of that one not a moment too soon! To the Comments!

 

Stacy writes:

 “…screaming vegetables. You must not have stopped over by my reality! ha ha ha! I still think I am a Rogscoclark! :)”

No, we did stop by, but there was only a slight whimper of hopeless despair from the vegetables,  (“…for the love of god, just pour the hollandaise and end our misery” ).
The thing that Stacy mentions that we are glad (…that she mentions ) (…stop it right this instant!)  Is that she thinks she is a rogscoclark. Which, as we all know is perceptive, intuitive and… frickin wrong!  lol
Actually, Stacy is on the right track* in the sense that while we all have a predominant personality type, this is one that determines the character of the world as we experience it, we never lose the capacity to see the world as ‘the other two do’. In fact, in some (but not all), people we see what we refer to as a secondary aspect (as well as a tertiary aspect), which is the influence of one of the other two on how we deal with problems and situations in our personal realities.
Stacy’s decision to label it rogscoclark is particularly informative! She implies a roger with a secondary scottian aspect and a tertiary clarklike element.  Can anyone tell us why this particular ordering of worldviews is exactly correct?

Melanie, she be sayin’:

“…feels like there’s always something more to learn about them, but I especially like reading up about Clarks (obv!) Thanks for sharing and happy Tuesday!”

This thing is fun to learn about, but like anything new does take practice. The (currently) preferred metaphor is language fluency. You learn the vocabulary and then the rules of grammar and you try it out in the world (and have the Waiter bring the mop flambé  with a side of brillo pads (‘lightly toasted) to your table, just as you requested!) And then you keep practicing. The one thing we will say, it is a lot more fun, ’cause no one in your world has a clue what you are talking about, so you are free from any embarrassing mistakes! How cool is that? (hey!  Melanie’s got this other site: ‘Steer Career Success’   go over there (no, after you read and comment!)  ’cause she’s doing some SEO stuff to the site and it will help her out)

Kristi, in a Comment:

“…I must be a Clark because I can’t remember the last time I was bored and the inside of my head is definitely big! And I love that we can still “be tired of this shit” because, yeah, definitely can relate to that.”

…and that is the way that it starts! you see something that reminds you of something, usually something that you had good sense not to go around broadcasting to the world around you, ’cause you learned way early on that most people don’t get you. Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine, Kristi!

From our Friend Janine:

“…so true that this has now helped me on more than one occasion dealing with others in my life now. So thank you for that Clark!! :)”

Janine is special to the Doctrine as she, like Molly, has a significant rogerian aspect, in a context that is all positive and therefore beneficial to all of us. As witness to this influence, can anyone tell us why the quote from Janine’s comment is of interest?** And she has totally nailed it… “help…dealing with others in my life.”  As we say, this Wakefield Doctrine is fun, and unique and useful. Not gonna make you want to stand in airport lobbies handing out pamphlets and such, but may, when you least expect it, let you say, “hey! wait a minute! you’re just saying/doing/wanting/thinking/don’t stop, that’s wonderful(ing) because you are a clark or a scott or a roger… I feel so much better… (please continue!)

 

Cyn…dee!  (take it home!):

“…with this post I’m thinking about my guest post: “Living Life as a Clark According to the WD” lol “

Yes, I realize that that is not a Comment to expand upon. Cyndi totally gets the Doctrine and is fast approaching complete fluency… we’ve  invited her to do a ‘guest clark‘ Post, not sure when it will appear in print, Cyndi has total options on what and when…we get the benefit of a ‘surprise’ Post soon.  go Cyndi!

Well that’s my 1000 cents worth for this morning. Write us a Comment, and not being Alex Trebek you are not required to express it in the form of a question.  Promise.

 

* Readers will, if you have been doing your homework, know what we are doing with our commentary… hold on to your responses, please

** very tricky Trick Question!

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the Wakefield Doctrine: ‘you’re already practicing the core Principles, you might as well get something for all your efforts’ (…yeah, even some fun!)

March 25, 2013 By

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

The reason we say,  you’re already practicing the Principles is that, as a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine does not start with a person answering questions, filling out a survey or questionnaire, reporting likes and dislikes, lying about weaknesses and strengths, exaggerating the things others like and hate about us. No. In a funny, you-guys-really-are-weird kind of way the Wakefield Doctrine doesn’t really care what the individual thinks their personality (type) should or could or might be. Nope. This here personality theory here does not need to know that.
…as a matter of fact! You don’t even need to involve the person that you are about to know (better, in a way) than they know themselves. You see, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

But I’m getting ahead of us. We’ll come back to this ‘you mean I can know my boyfriend’s, my Teacher’s, my wife’s, my boss’s, my kid’s personality types and I don’t need to ask them to help?’ in just about a paragraph. First, the Principles that the Title of today’s Post says you are already practicing.

The Wakefield Doctrine is all about how a person relates themselves to the world around them. Notice the odd wording, I did not say, ‘how a person relates to the world‘. Because that’s only one dimension, in a sense a description of  what happens as the person goes about their life. We say, ‘how the person relates themselves to the world around them’ because it is not simply a choice (about how to act, what to do, how to feel about it), it is reality. What we refer to as a worldview.
In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all live in a personal reality, aka our worldview. This means that my reality is different from yours. No, nothing weird… no screaming vegetables, nothing shooting across the sky, no flying without the help of technology, but different nonetheless. And it is the way our worldviews differ that we find the value and utility in our personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience the world from one of three ‘perspectives’, living in one of three worldviews, if you will. And what most people call ‘personality types’, we know as the appropriate behavior, given the world that a person finds themselves experiencing. (Remember!  personal reality as in ‘real’ and ‘reality’  not  “just ’cause you felt like it, or I think I will choose to act like this, she deserves it….”) The three characteristic worldviews are:

  1. the reality of the Outsider (clarks)  not ‘because’, not ‘well, you should speak up more’, and definitely not ‘well if you didn’t act so weird, people would get to know you and  you would have an easier time in life’  this reality is simply one in which you are here and ‘the world’ is out there. (For our clarklike Readers this last statement is sufficient, the rogers and the scotts might nod and look understanding, but will never get it)
  2. the world of the Predator (scotts) of the three personality types, scotts can be the easiet to deal with- they are energetic and active, enthusiastic and mercurial helpful and very dangerous… the saying here is: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel’.  scotts are the life of the party and the reason the police get called, scotts are your best friend until someone who they look up to shows up and then your life will be miserable , scotts are the neighbor who will lend you anything in his garage and help build your deck without asking and she is the neighbor with the well-behaved kids (at least they are when she is around, when she is not….ayiieee!), scotts are fun and tiring, loyal and seductive  you have at least one scottian friend
  3. the world as seen by a member of the Herd (rogers) are the reason we have civilization and they are the reason we have repressive societies. they are the personality type that lives in a world of emotion… not just moods and feelings, but where clarks think things and scotts act out, rogers manipulate emotion, in themselves and in the people around them. Ever encounter someone who makes you feel comfortable talking?  ...roger  know anyone at work who is always in the center of things and knows all about everyone?… roger  ever find your husband/wife…boyfriend/girlfriend  acting like they had no idea that you had a life outside the relationship?  lol roger  there is a saying around here: without rogers humanity would still be out on the savannah with the scotts roaming in packs, feeding on the giant herds of rogers while the clarks dart among the low underbrush in a desperate attempt to stay alive long enough to invent opposable thumbs

These three worldviews are the ‘core principles’ of the Doctrine that you are already practicing.

Back to the Practical Value….and how you don’t need to involve the ‘other person’ and how this Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

Today. Observe the people in your life. Infer which of the three worldviews they appear to be acting from, test this against the descriptions of each of the three personality types that you will find throughout this blog. Once you know which the other person is, you will know why they are doing the things that they are and because you know this, you will have the choice of how you would respond, how you feel about what they do, how to shape the message if you need to get them to do what you want. In other words, you will have more freedom of choice than they do.

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