Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Hey! New Readers!! Now that you’ve had time to read and understand the basic principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, lets start you off with a common comparison problem:
“…nearly every popular personality type system has a category labeled: ‘Introvert’ Here is the brief Quiz (which, if you don’t pass, may result in your not ever feeling successful …with any aspect of your life*). The Quiz: a) why is it everyone likes to believe that they are an ‘Introvert’ and 2) why is the Wakefield Doctrine vastly superior to nearly every one of these other personality theories, on the matter of ‘Introversion’? …Times up!! (ha, ha… of course, time’s not up clark!! you will never believe that it is possible that you have only one chance!)
Answers:
- a) nope! you have to answer this one, you’re the frickin people who run around, telling your friends that you’re an ‘Introvert’ on the basis of the results of the cool, new personality test that you found on ‘the Facebook’
- 2) ok… this one we’ll provide, (seeing how you didn’t read down this far, to see if this Quiz was for real or not). the Wakefield Doctrine is wonderful in it’s approach to ‘Introversion’, because it does not ask the person taking the test if they believe the description (of ‘Introversion’) applies to them. As a result, there is no problem with whether, when confronted with the questions: ‘I am sometimes reluctant to speak before a plenary session of the UN Security Council” or ‘when making love I occasionally like to be in separate beds‘ or ‘my friends often are unable to pick me out of the police lineup‘, we can answer: ‘Never’ ‘Sometimes’ or ‘Are you kidding me?!?!’ The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that the behavior labeled ‘Introversion’ is available to and manifested by all three personality types, that it is how the individual ‘relates themselves to the world around them’, that makes a person Introverted. Now, the first time Reader of the Doctrine might say, “those clark people!! they’re Introverts because they mumble and have no eye contact and can’t seem to sit up straight in a chair and when you’re trying to put a move on one of them, even when you know that they’re totally into you, somehow you find yourself having a heartfelt conversation about the Peloponnesian War or the Secrets of the Rosicrucians!” clarks exhibit many of the characteristics of an introvert, but they will not remain un-noticed a second longer, once they decide that they have something to contribute. The first time Reader might say, “how can those scotts be introverted?? no damn way, they’re totally out in the front of the room.” True, (most of the time), but scotts have a way of withdrawing that is indicated by the tone of their shouting/joking/hitting-upon-ing. This is simple misdirection, much as a mother lion might leave the cubs under a bush, run at the much larger predator stalking them and then head off in entirely a different direction, drawing attention away from the bush. An injured or overly tired scott will exhibit this as a form of Introversion. and rogers? when they are feeling off or are suffering, they will simply find something in you to cause you discomfort, which will serve to take the attention off themselves… hiding in
pain-sightplain sight,
Study up binyons, new Readers! There will be more quizzes and tests and exams and such.
Experienced Readers? yeah, we ran out of time yesterday…and we’re kinda up against it again today! But, seeing how you guys are so damn adept, here’s a couple of insights:
do not be concerned with the questions: is this worthwhile, will anyone notice that I have done this, does this make up for… (anything)
do be (very) concerned with the questions: is this something that I can feel satisfied with, does this satisfaction start and end with me, do I care if anyone notices
No! yeah, I’ll definitely make you experienced people the priority tomorrow for sure. As a matter of fact, as a test to see who’s still reading: send in questions and I will respond in a video Post Thursday.
With only 3 more Letters to the Alphabet …our Doctrine Friends have, for us today the following:
Lizzi: she writes the words and we read the words, alright…I’m cool with that
Jean: damn! do you think that, when this is concluded the current lull in urban graffiti is going to spike? well, you can save a trip downtown and read it here!
zoe: damn! another good/useful/interesting/save-for-next-discussion-where-it-can-be-mentioned-in-the-off-handed-manner-that-totally-impresses
Dyanne: yesterday’s Post as a placeholder, but given that she lives in the scariest place in the country (meteorologically-speaking) we’ll wait for today’s Y later
* ha ha just kidding, you’ll be successful with some aspect of your life…. you know, if you’re a roger, you’ll always be successful (as far as what you’ll tell anyone in earshot.. of course, at night, when you can’t smother your mind in reading, coerced love-making and/or compulsive stamp-collecting, you might wish you had studied harder, but then you’ll recall how poorly the blog appeared to be written and relax with a session of grading the quality of wool of sheep jumping a fence. scotts? satisfied with their lives? ha! ain’t no time to go looking for some kind of standard to measure up to!! gotta keep moving!)
About clarkscottroger
frist?
damn right FRIST… (hey! wait a minute!! are you outside my house with binoculars and a speed-dial tablet or what?) lol… very frist FRIST today!
Hang in there, Dyanne, xox jean
and also that was incredibly perceptive stuff you were writing about concerning the new, simplistic Introvert tests. Very well written indeed Clark,
As I fell asleep last night I was just entertaining myself by thinking about magicians and how they distract people when they are performing,,,and about how when you learn magic as a kid you have to learn without a partner, which is a lot harder than if you are a pro and have some lady wearing feathers and sequins waving and flourishing her arms around, Like in The Prestige. And that is how I fell asleep. My oldest grandson is the right age to be learning magic.There is a very good book about magic called fifth business.. jeane
Oh about the comment, yes, I was, clark. as usual. what???
…feathers?!? damn!
lol
..I can’t say it !!! hahaha
yeah, right! of course you can, you’re a scott!
Is that true (the introvert preference)? I think it is up to a certain maturity level. I always characterize myself as an extrovert but everyone NOW characterizes me an introvert… I used to work a room like a scott… and oddly enough still can.
key word ‘can’ (the Doctrine) would hold that this is a result of a secondary (or perhaps) tertiary scottian aspect. my intent was to illustrate a) the insatiable desire to understand onself and 2) to point out the total superiority of the Wakefield Doctrine in terms of not looking to put people in a category on the basis of traits and behavior (either self-reported or proffered) but rather to point to (an individual’s) perception of their own relationship to the world around them as the best (and most useful) measure of personality type.
ya know?
Great points as always, and as always I’m tempted to say “Get out of my head!” :)
Having just found you this year, I’m so tempted to go back, read every single post you’ve ever written to try to find out if you have, as of yet, written about the particular Roger(s) who hurt you.
Or you could just tell me, but for some reason I don’t see that happening. I’ll have to “STAY TUNED” won’t I??
Joy
actually, it’s worse/easier/simpler and way more aggravating for the, ‘chase-eat-laugh-sleep-what’s-the-problem?’ set* It’s a clark thing… not to be mysterious or coy (well, maybe a little coy)… but if you find a clark in your own world, their answer will be the same as mine. The nature of the relationship between clarks and rogers has, inherent in it, events/conditions/negative/positive that will account for the seeming animosity** re the bovine set (lol)
* lol you know, scotts
** as with most things ’round the Doctrine some things are for effect, some things are for fun…all things are useful
I mean, there is an obvious “all in fun” tone. That’s there for sure! Bovine set hahaha
Joy
good… you (and the other scottian Readers) are reminding me of the … less serious kind of fun we used to have back in the earlier days of the blog… more ‘drive-by inflammatory prose’ you might say.
I love “drive-by inflammatory prose” the drive-by part is cracking me up! Like crop dusting, but more like “crap dusting.”
Hey, Rogers sound a lot like Shylock!!!
lol
my god my ‘writing’ may be effective, but (apparently) I don’t have a clue as to what it is ‘saying’….
(I think it may be more for a vidchat, but I think it might be in the interest of everyone’s favorite Doctrine, for me to update my perspective on how I am portraying all them personality types!)
Slowly, slowly, slowly, Clark, you are getting my attention. Today it with the word ‘introvert,’ which I had no idea was a popular thing these days. For heaven’s sake, why? I mean, I like who I am and all, but I’ve always thought the extrovert life looked like the easier one. The ‘make love in separate beds’ comment cracked me up.
Sarah
…that is a good, no?
I will say, (as I have before, in many other places), making the ‘initial leap in faith/imagination’ into a place where the Doctrine becomes the fun tool that it is, is more difficult for rogers than it is for clarks or scotts*.
yeah, my main inspiration for this ‘Introvert’ post is watching (on ‘the Facebook’) when people post things about the wonderful personality quiz they took and how it confirms that they are truly Introverted… all this while hanging out out of the window of a speeding car, driving through the parking lot of the local school for the hearing impaired.
ya know?
*it is an official Rule here that no one can tell you what your predominant worldview is (at least, not tell you in any way that might make you feel you must accept said assertion). For the Doctrine to have it’s primary usefulness and value as a tool, it is up to the individual to find their way (or not) to knowing what the character of their personal reality (clark or scott or roger) is…
Hiding in pain sight.
I’m not an introvert. I got laughed OUT LOUD AT by my mother when I tried to suggest that I was one.
Now I KNOW I’m not. I totally get my energy from interaction. SO MUCH. But it’s the outsider thing which had me wondering.
I am an introvert…and apparently I was introvert when introvert wasn’t cool (apologies to Barbara Mandrell). I have one observation….true introverts are not overcome by the urge to post the breaking news of their personality quiz results on Facebook!
very true
my point exactly, that a list of traits, tendencies, behaviors and tropisms applied to oneself (or, very often, applied to another, in their best interest, of course) tells us nothing other than what we think we might be like/what we want to be like/what we would be like.
the Doctrine is very different in this regard. the Doctrine, in a decidedly odd way, is not concerned with the individual, you or me or than girl who at work who is the inveterate gossip… rather the Doctrine is concerned with discovering how one (you or the other person) ‘relates themselves to the world around them’… and introvert, in the sense of ‘one who might avoid the spotlight’ can be found in clarks, scotts and rogers… but while on the surface seeming to be the same ‘quality’ is very different ‘in the hands of the three’
we clarks do not have a drive to hold up the banner of ‘Introversion’, not because we lack the capability, but because with our relationship to the world around us, we do not seek out scrutiny, which is not to say that we are totally devoid of the need for attention. (one of the primary characteristics of the clarklike world view is the statement: ‘clarks do not enjoy being in the spotlight, but will not tolerate being ignored’)