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Tuesday the Wakefield Doctrine (“…damn! I had no idea it* would do that! cool!”)

June 24, 2014 By

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

('…well, because there's a clark and a scott and (such) a roger in this movie!')

(‘…well, because there’s a clark and a scott and (such) a roger in this movie!’)

…. as mentioned in yesterday’s Post

(…the other thing to come out of this weekend was a re-appreciation of), ‘the everything Rule’. This is, of course, the Rule that states:  ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’.

Just what the hell does this Rule say and why do we insist it is critical to the use and appreciation of this here Doctrine here?  As the books on writing are always saying, ‘show, don’t tell’ …(in yesterday’s Post’s Comments, Lizzi provided an illustration of science and the three personality types:

clarks – get the mad new ideas and create ways around things
rogers – ensure best lab practice and policies and measurability and reliability
scotts – sell the ideas to others

which came from Joe (her rogerian husband)….   well done! joe!                              … now, I read that I immediately thought, ” ‘scientists!’  what about the ‘real’ scientists throughout history…who was who?”  coming as no surprise to everyone,  I dashed off a list:

Madame Curie- clark (this
Isaac Newton – roger (‘how can you do this to me?! that hurt!)
Leonardo da Vinci – clark
Albert Einstein – roger
Alfred Noble – scott (hey!! come ‘ere!! pull my finger!)

soon thereafter we heard from Cyndi:

…I love Madame Curie – her story is fascinating. She was a clark but had such singular focus. If only I should be so lucky. :P
Einstein was a roger?!? How the hell, so? I always thought he was so stuck in his own head he didn’t even comb his hair.
Newton? A roger?
And Alfred Noble – of the Noble gases? A scott? Actually, periodic-table-speaking-wise, I could see it. The noble gases like Helium are perfectly in control with their electron configurations. <– I just wanted to be asinine and pretend like I know what the hell I’m talking about. ;)

which added to the fun….  (“…no, Cyndi  if you had her focus, you’d be buried in a lead-lined coffin somewhere in the Pyrex Mountains!”)

and then, I’m** all:

sure Einstein was all absent-mindy but he is reported to have said, ‘god doesn’t play dice with the universe’ and he liked to play the violin and (less reliably reported) he got really pissed off when Heisenberg started suggesting that maybe everything was not quantifiable… (from a Review by Publishers Weekly cited by amazon.com in their book selling section:

“…As Lindley so well explains it, the concept of uncertainty shook the philosophical underpinnings of science. It was Heisenberg’s work that, to a great extent, kept Einstein from accepting quantum mechanics as a full explanation for physical reality. Similarly, it was the Uncertainty Principle that demonstrated the limits of scientific investigation: if Heisenberg is correct there are some aspects of the physical universe that are to remain beyond the reach of scientists.“)

So what does this have to do with the ‘everything Rule’?

simply this:  despite the words ‘everyone does everything‘  the Wakefield Doctrine Rule/Guide known as the ‘everything Rule’ but actually states: ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’  is not about the fact that people share qualities and interests, strengths and weaknesses, passion and ennui. They do/ we all do! This because,  even though we all live our lives in one (of the three) worldviews, we all retain the potential of ‘the other two‘ worldviews).  (Whenever we hear from a Reader saying, ‘I’m pretty sure that I’ve identified my predominate worldview as a clark, but sometimes I totally act like a scott. What am I doing wrong?‘ the correct response is, ‘absolutely nothing! you are simply witnessing your secondary aspect exerting itself, no doubt prompted by some threat or excitement’.)  But the commonality between all three personality types is not what the ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’ Rule is about.

It is about: we all experience life, our jobs, reality, the family at dinner, our boss on a bad day, the girl we really hope likes us, the guy who doesn’t seem to care if we know he is unfaithful, the hospital we go to when we fall out of a tree and cry until we laugh and the hospital we go to when we give birth and laugh until we cry and the hospital we are taken to and we’re quiet because we know we will never leave…. we share these experiences, we do all of these.  the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the idea that there are three versions/editions/manifestations of this common world/these common experiences: the world of the Outsider(clarks) and the life of the Predator(scotts) and the reality of the Herd Member(rogers) and each and everything (in our lives) is manifested according to our worldview.

so pick a thing! anything!  occupations  interests  qualities hopes and fears …everything that makes up our lives manifests in a slightly (or not so slightly) different way for each of the three personality types.

The key to the value of the ‘everything’ Rule, lies in the words we use to frame the question.  Rather than say, ‘I wonder what stage fright is like for a clark (or a scott) or a roger?’… say, instead:

“…stage fright is very common, I wonder how it manifests in the world of the Outsider (clarks) or for scotts (those who develop in the reality of the Predator) or even what it is for rogers”

I will now ask for some Reader participation. Suggest a ‘thing’ and we will, together as a group, look at how it is manifested.

stage fright:

  1. clarks: unpleasant experience, made understandable by knowing that everyone experiences it, made tolerable by talking about it (prior to performance)…the pressure, the force it manifests is focused on judgement… of (what they are about to do) by (everyone) and reflecting on the totality of the clark’s life
  2. scotts: (from an actual scott) it’s the spice it’s the accentuation of the thrill… not necessarily pleasant, but a an accepted part of the process
  3. rogers: a prompt… a reminder of the value of practice and therefore an affirmation (of the life properly lead)… one roger I knew would get all serious and OCDish on the day of a performance …treating all around him as an annoyance and/or a threat…after the performance totally relaxed, if not playful… practice pays off

anyone else?

 

* ‘that’ being forcing a block quote into the Title  ha ha

** when, that is, I’m not cutting up, in the back of the metaphorical classroom, with zoe and Jean… lol

 

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Monday morning Post the Wakefield Doctrine (“…hello, how do you do?“)

June 23, 2014 By

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

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…I’m back. (no, not ‘back from writer’s block’ back… back from wandering around the internet in search of a hook for today’s Post). I will admit that it’s still there, the lurking fear of having nothing to say on behalf of our little personality theory here. The cure for that, is to remember that the definition of the Wakefield Doctrine is

a unique, useful and fun way to view the behavior of the people in our lives. With the Wakefield Doctrine, as (an additional) perspective on life,  you need never again find yourself saying, ‘how could they say something like that? I really thought I knew them better than that!’

fun:  a long list of etymological root sources, none of which I thought were all that funny, except maybe for ‘virgin’ and ‘cheat’   (now that I see that in print, maybe we’re on to something!)

first un-planned end of a relationship:

  1. clarks (it is) at the hands of a scott
  2. scotts (totally caught off guard, which is so not like scotts) at the hands of a roger
  3. rogers (in a tiny, not-nearly-enough-to-make-up-for-a-lot-of-the-other-stuff) at the hands of a roger

(lol… now that’s more like it!  Hey, Jin-nay  called in this Saturday on the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive Call-in!  And one of the things we were talking about was the fun of the early days of the blog… a lot of the ‘language’ and expressions of the principles of the Doctrine were way more provocative and outrageous and…well, and fun! It’s just that some concepts are easier to convey this sense of ‘hey!! listen to this!!’ in the spoken form than in the written form. Un-avoidable, I suppose… but still, it was fun to talk in realtime with Jean. Funny how distinctive scotts (and rogers and even clarks) are even in a voice-only format.    Fun

the other thing to come out of this weekend was a re-appreciation of ‘the everything Rule’. This is, of course, the Rule that states:  ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’.

(here is a temporarily useful approach to the Monday morning Post writing:  I will not try to write a complete Post. I will write what I (am) enjoying, but when the temptation to ‘make a point’ arises and I find myself bogging down, I’ll just say:  ‘to be cont’d’)

(Free Wakefield Doctrine docTee to the Reader who correctly identifies which of the three worldviews is most sympathetic to this approach to problem-solving)*

(for any of the Readers who, through no fault of their own, were born long enough ago to have watched this show (and enjoyed it different ways, appropriate to the different ages they watched)

 

*some restrictions may apply, Contestants must look within and determine if they really, truly deserve the award and measure, by their own worldviews standards, the cost to themselves and the others (participating in this contest) of insisting on getting the shirt, even when they already have one, what the hell does one think they are proving, I mean you can only wear one docTee at a time, ok, if you’re a clarklike female you could manage to wear more than one and, sure just because you’re a scottian woman and thought it would look better tying a knot on one side, and tearing a shoulder off does not automatically qualify you for an extra shirt and the rogers do have to have one shirt to wear while the other is at the dry cleaners (despite the insistence of the tag that says, ‘wash any damn way you choose, it’s a frickin undershirt!’)

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TToT (as we celebrate the end of Summer) the Wakefield Doctrine …yeah, went by fast this year!

June 21, 2014 By

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This week I may, to use a form of rogerian expression* supplant this list with a video, perhaps sometime tomorrow. I tried to record one on this evening’s walk with Una, but was unsuccessful as there were many lifeforms walking along the road… so, until that time, I will write my grat list the old fashioned way, one sentence at a time on my electrical keyboard.

1) The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)… totally grateful for this godsend, (the use of which will now be demonstrated):  SR 5.3 ‘..when [an Item on a Gratitude List also serves to] provide helpful information for a new participant, said Item maybe be {broken}

2) {up}, so as to provide the information, but (if) it also serve(s) as illustration of the Rule (being cited),  said illustration may be presented as it’s {own}

3) {Item}… furthermore, the Rule, if used in a case where a specific person is named (sub. chapter 3.5) and provided the name is hyper linked, {may count as}

4) {Four!} there you go! Val   the basic Rules of Use of the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). Use it with skill and you’ll be fine… abuse it and there are Seven (no, not 3 and not 4)….Seven GuardVirgins who you will have to answer to… (don’t let the ‘Virgins’ fool ya….this is, after all, the world of metaphor  so be wary)  (zoe will be of help if you think you are getting cornered by one (or more) of the Seven… she knows them very well).

5)  I am totally grateful for the response (of Readers) this week to my difficulty writing Posts. While the term, ‘writers block’ was bandied about, (which, given my own opinion of my skills in this medium, I took as a high compliment), support and encouragement was the order of the day this week. Interestingly enough, the Doctrine was illustrated in the out-cropping** of concern and well-wishing.  the scotts were all…’Hey!!  don’t worry about it! you’re fine…relax….write!!!’  and the rogers were, ‘we know how you feel and have felt that way ourselves, we care about you and everything will be alright‘ and the clarks went with the, ‘cool! you know, I think I have an idea… this may seem weird but… lol‘

6) We did go on our weekly car-walk.  The weather was rather pleasant this Friday evening, which meant, there were other life forms along our path, so the two attempts to do a ‘walking video’ were unsuccessful mostly because Una takes her job, (riding shotgun), quite seriously. (To her credit: my car is very… very quiet and we drive at 5 to 10 mph and so tend to be on the stealthy side, when we come upon someone walking in the same direction as we are driving, we can get right up behind them before they even know we are there…. Una appreciates this and seems to get a kick out of waiting…. barking right behind their left ear…(lol)  so, I yesterday I ended up having to roll up the windows whenever I would see someone on the road ahead.

7) My work. By it’s nature requires that I spend a great deal of time on it, sort of every day of the week (though I do try to get part of Sunday off), but it is varied and interesting and requires me to drive around in my car (which is fun) and deal with a wide variety of people (which is …fun) and so, while I am grateful for it, I have to hurry up and finish this list as it is already 7:24 and I need to leave the house. (I will admit to being hypo-grateful for the fact that I cannot get back to this blog until, like, the middle of the afternoon today, at which point I’ll have 27 new Posts to try and catch up with).

8) grateful to Lizzi for the rather excellent Guest Post (on ‘Guest Post Thursday’s Guest Post… clarks’) this week. You should read it… wait! this is the internet… you can read it!! Click this

9) This Space reserved for Video entry  (and a great Friday Night vid chat  with zoe and Denise and Laura and those two English birds, Lizzi and Christine)

10) SR 1.3  (Hey! Val!!  watch and learn yo)

 

 

* a unique, startling and very interesting thing that rogers do (with language)… (I’ll come back with a definition, with examples, after I finish the Post, until then, you can follow this link and read up on it yourself)

** yeah, another rogerian expression!… remind me and I will make that an item when I do the Video Finish of today’s Post

 

 

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‘Friday’ ….the Wakefield Doctrine (odds and ends… like that one book that isn’t just too small, it’s too thick to stack and carry)

June 20, 2014 By

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I get the part about rogers and expectations being affirmations. Makes sense. It’s the next part: “to a clark, (expectations) are demands and challenges that are inherently a threat of exposure of their Outsider natures…” Say this same thing only differently. Reiterate to illustrate.

Denise (at Girlie on the Edge) says to us, she says, ‘explain what you mean by ‘ clarks experience expectations…(as a) threat of exposure of their ‘Outsider’ natures‘… ‘

Fine. Lets start by remembering the ‘everything Rule’* and re-phrase her statement as, ‘for a person in the worldview of a clark, how does ‘expectations’ manifest? The answer is, very simply, (for a clark) expectations are (experienced) as a form of extortion (and) forcible intervention in the personal life of a clark. The person making the demands…. (see?!  right there! I was actually setting out to say, ‘the person who is the source of the expectations…’ and instead, I wrote…. demands‘! Tell me there is no difference between clarks and scotts and rogers!)
Expectations are, for clarks, a spotlight (and this can either be the ‘stage spotlight’ that follows and highlights our every move….provided, we made the choice to be in the spotlight or…. it’s the spotlight like in every interrogation scene in most movies you’ve watched… glaring, missing nothing…painfully detailing every reaction….  like that).

Not that we clarks always avoid expectations. But, we do not perceive them, (because they manifest differently), the way that rogers1 or scotts2 do.

So, Denise?  Does this sufficiently illustrate your fuckin requirement that I prove myself in front of everyone?

… (lol)

You all do know that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender and culture neutral, right?

Hey!!  like the title says, ‘Friday’… which can only mean one of 3,298,787,244 things… the Wakefield Doctrine presents  Lizzi and Michelle’s Friday Night vidchat   (starting around 7:30 EDST)

* everything Rule:  ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’… very crucial to the understanding and application of the Wakefield Doctrine, i.e. there are no scottian jobs, there is no ‘only-clarks-like-it activities’, the Doctrine does not say anything about all accountants and engineers are rogers. What the Wakefield Doctrine does say is, we all share a common world/common experience, but on a personal level we experience the world differently. The emphasis is on ‘we experience’.  Take the job: carpenter**  Lets go to a building site where a new house is nearly ready for occupancy. Of the people we see working there, we (can) find clarks and scotts and rogers.  No requirement that only one type will be able to build a house. Of course, if you have been studying your Doctrine, you could tell the other Readers what the clarks will be found doing, how to identify the scotts on the site and where the rogers are… but that’s for another Post.
** please!

1) as we now know, thanks to Kristi’s artifact, rogers perceive/manifest ‘expectations as part of the structure of their world and therefore can only be good

2) scotts and expectations?…. not so much a conscious perception as it is a part of their drive… the lioness trotting (in that cool, semi-slow motion way they do), towards the passing herd of wildebeests does not factor in how hungry her cubs are…does not care a bit about how fast most of the herd (that is beginning to go into ‘run away’ mode), is and totally is not thinking about how to apologize for not bringing home the supper, if she fails… she is in a state of …. joy/excitement/anticpation…. no, expectations are not a negative or a positive for scotts

… music video has the score so you can try and follow along (sort of like a 17th Century video game)

 

 

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Guest Post3 Thursday Thursday Guest Post3 the Wakefield Doctrine (“oh clark! come out and plaayy”)

June 19, 2014 By

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Today we welcome Guest-clark Writer, Lizzi Rogers.

The coolest thing about today’s Guest Post Writer? 2 things:

  1. I met her through a bloghop… followed her ‘home’ and began (quite without encouragement) to Comment at her blog ‘Considerings’
  2. Getting to know her and watch the remarkable development of a talent (writing) from 400 word posts to being one of the most in-demand Guest writer in the ‘sphere
  3. Watching her teach herself the Wakefield Doctrine (after all, she is a clark) and understand the principles to such a depth as to all her to extrapolate (and see the rogers and the scotts)

Lizzi writes: the blog ‘Considerings‘ and co-write/hosts:  ‘the Well-Tempered Bard’ (with zoe) and she has a more series and projects than I can keep track of…  if someone comes up and says, ‘hey clark, give me a single reference for Lizzi that would allow a stranger to get a sense of her as a writer and a blogger and a person and a clarklike female’  I would say:  ‘the Ten Things of Thankful’. You want to know what’s good and whats bad? you want insight into her strength and her pain? if you need to know the real person she is, the not-yet-realized person she will be…. go to the TToT and follow it.  Everything you need to know.

( hey! I’m writing this before reading Lizzi’s (Guest) Post. Why? Because…well, damn! have you read any of her work?  They say that clarks, of the three personality types, are the genuinely creative ones… (sure, rogers can be original in how they are able to reassemble parts in incredibly novel ways and scotts, well, scotts they make you see things in a way that you had in you, but for some reason, didn’t dare, but clarks… clarks bring into existence new things…things that have never existed.)  …you want an example?  you want to know why I like and admire (and fear for and worry about) Lizzi and the creativity that she possesses??    go to Friend of the Doctrine’s Kristi’s blog, Finding Ninee,  and go to this Post….and then towards the bottom there is a slideshow, (you’ll get the premise right away)…sit through everyone’s photo… you’ll know which is Lizzi’s because, if you’re a clark, (even if you’re not),  you’ll mutter, half to yourself,  ‘holy shit!’  (and then laugh in admiration). We’ll wait here.

So…lets take a look and see what we have for today’s Thursday Post

…Lizzi?

Worth Every Penny (Or your money back)

I’m tempted to begin with something which cements me (so far as your perspective is concerned, anyway) as a cool, hip, edgy type, with her clarklike tendencies tattooed (in viridian and cerise) in enigmatic binary code down her spine. In a double-helix, for good measure. I have Iggy Pop’s ‘Wild Child’ on in the background, and the irony that it is pretty much the very least-fitting song for me, or this post, has not been lost on me.

[Penny for your thoughts: There are occasions when I feel as though I can become imbued with the spirit of a song, if I listen to it enough. This is doubtless stupid, but the change in perspective while it occurs is fascinating.]

Clark asked me to guest post, and I’ve put him off (twice? Once? Or did I just jump at it with both hands, for fear of being left out?) but finally acquiesced because frankly, I could do with a bit of verbal fencing, which will no doubt be provided by whoever rocks up to skirmish with the one who claims ‘frist’ and then settles down to pick this to pieces and tell me I was wrong all along.

[Penny for your thoughts: Pick your friends (and your guest posts) carefully, especially if you want to surround yourself with smoke-blowing ‘yes men’. If you want challenge and responsiveness and to experience the immediate need to justify your every point…post here.]

Initially there was no remit. I was happy with that, because I could copy the hell out of (one of my? Nooo I still don’t pick favourites) Kristi and approach this with two middle fingers up and a lazy ‘fuck you!’, accompanied by a louche wink. But I realised that my sexy smoker voice is due to perpetually susceptible lungs, my wink looks more like something stuck in my eye, and when I swear, I come off as inherently adorable, due to my quintessential Englishness.

[Penny for your thoughts: When I come to ‘Murica, I now have an expectation that I will be able to get away with sheer bloody murder because of my “cute” accent. I’m wondering how far I can ‘dine out’ on it, so to speak…]

Then, all of a sudden, a remit (strictly optional) arrived – “write whatever you would write if you were writing a post which would be posted somewhere where no-one knows you.” – and threw me off kilter. Apart from the fact that who really knows anyone, anyway, there was no way I could make the intellectual disconnect from this place – this little Wakefield Doctrine community – to imagine that there won’t be a quick scuffle between Zoe and Jny for ‘Frist!’, followed by a series of comments which have little to nothing to do with the post, but which nonetheless open up fascinating conversations, adjuncts and tangents which can, nonetheless, all be said to have been spawned by the original. Then Denise might look in, read and not comment, Kristi might say something rude just so she can establish that she is still in possession of a superior scottian aspect than I am (no matter how secondary the two of them might be), and perhaps K2 or Michelle might put their heads around the corner to say, encouragingly “I read this, and you did some pretty writing, which I’m sure made Clark happy”.

[Penny for your thoughts: Sometimes when you get the ‘feel’ of a place too deeply, its characters seem to walk off the page and into your mind. That can be weird. Especially if they then set out to prove you wrong when it comes to the fact.]

“Remit be hanged!” I declared, defiantly, daring to suggest that I would write exactly and precisely what I wanted to write, although being aware of my tendencies to verbosity and long-windedness, I figured I’d better make the point pretty quickly – Clark gets twitchy around and about the 1000 word mark, and I know it’s a personal goal of his not to lose readers via the guest-post vehicle, no matter the manner of fascinating insight it might provide into the clark-brain – lest you get bored.

That said, I’m only on 700 words, so I have three hundred to play with.

I shall choose not to.

[Penny for your thoughts: There is nothing so satisfying as utterly conforming to type, once in a while.]

P.S. There is nothing so delightful as stepping to the side and watching the competition rush past one, much as a bull past a matador, for the pure sake of a loophole which promises value (or your money back) and proceeds to stamp ‘gratis’ on the entire contents.

P.P.S. Then again, most of you figured that one out before I…

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