Month: September 2014 | the Wakefield Doctrine

#25 the Wakefield Doctrine (you know you understand this stuff, but part of you really doesn’t like it when you get like that )

September 25, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

a clark and a roger interacting:

the bad aspects (just saying) are the rogers fault and the clark’s responsibility
clarks are drawn to rogers for the very obvious reason that if anything is the opposite of ‘the Outsider’ it’s the ‘Herd Member’ (see? the label Herd Member is not all bad)
…of course, that’s the obvious and fairly superficial ‘reason’ the real reason is that rogers feel (as clarks think and scotts act)… rogers are ‘of emotion’ just as clarks are ‘of the rational’ and scotts are ‘of action and activity’

[our more astute Readers will be muttering to themselves, “we get where you’re going with this… the complimentary and the complementary, and like that, tell us more! Before you end this Post. Yeah we’re interested in the way that the individual worldviews…those personal realities that this Doctrine depends so totally on, exactly how they connect to each other.“]

a roger and a scott interacting:

any bad aspects (there must be some) are (the) scotts enjoyment (and they totally don’t mind admitting it) and the rogers pleasure (and they’ll be loathe to admit it, even to themselves)
scotts are natural predators (hey! it”s a behavioral metaphor, get out those imaginations that you often forget you have, that, when reminded that you have (usually by a clark) you’re pretty darn good at it) and the rogers are natural prey (nah… not even gonna try). just ask yourself: when you have an interaction that leaves you exhausted and yet eager for more, is that person a scott or a clark? ‘could be any of the three’ is the default rogerian response, we all already know that so don’t bother) (lol)
I don’t know! like in nature… ya know?

a scott and a clark interacting:

any bad aspect (sure, but it’s one of those ‘the bad is still good things’) is a result of the nature of clarks and the way a clark relates themselves to the world around them. for the scott, the bad would be the other person getting tired, injured or used up (for the clark it gets more interesting)
if a scott is a lion (or a wolf or a tiger or a shrew (no! really! look it up!) then a clark is an armadillo (or a porcupine or a whale (yeah, I’m gonna keep the whale in the list, a bit of a left-turn, metaphorically-speaking but still good) and the basis for this comparison has to do with the clark’s tendency to not pay attention to the world, while at the same time having near limitless potential and never learning how to be reasonable when in adversarial mode.
the flaw in (a) relationship between a clark and a scott: scotts are always establishing ranking (ever changing dominant/submissive standing among the members of the pack), clarks are mostly passive… the problem with a clark’s passivity is that ‘mostly‘ thing….lol

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30 Day Challenge Post #24 the Wakefield Doctrine (today’s Post? I totally have no idea what this is about)

September 24, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

Anyone who has written a blog for more than, say, 18 months, accepts the fact that there is a rhythm to the ‘reads’ that a blog experiences. Nothing surprising in that. Patterns of activity and rhythm in our energy levels, exert their influence throughout our day, each and every minute is devoted and assigned to something. When to leave for work, what time we need to meet the kids getting off the school bus, the afternoon ‘coffee break’, patterns and rhythms all.

But that is not what today’s Post is about. I do not know, at this point (Word count:109) what, if anything, today’s Post is about. However two thoughts, like school children anxious to impress the Teacher in the first week of classes (yes, they would be rogers) rattle around in my head:

“hey, just write something… you can bury it with a new Post tomorrow” In the early days of this blog, I often overcame writers stoppage with the simple thought. ‘get something really outrageous down and then write your way out of it’
(something that zoe said in a Comment this recent Monday), “…there is a constant push /pull to do the blog /quit the blog… despite my investment in it at any given time… WTF is that about?“
the photo today? Simply an example of an-unsung genius of marketing… (photo of today’s dose of ‘hey-old-man-don’t-worry-eat-all-of-these-and-you’ve-earned-the-right-to-beleieve-that-science-can-do-what-your-body-seems-to-hellbent-on-forgetting-how-important-certain-functions-are’ Vitamin Supplement. I am totally serious. I’ve looked it up. If you wanted to, you could easily put 10 times more supplements, nutritional additives and South American Ardor Plant extract into a single tablet no larger a One-a-Day vitamin. But that would not let me imagine that this product is different! No! What GNC has done is put 6 different capsules in a see-through plasticine packet…can you see in the photo? all different sizes and colors… some small, but there’s that black capsule and the clear yellow one? oh yeah! can’t wait til next Saturday Night! I will say, in the characteristic manner of the Wakefield Doctrine, you can learn (nearly) everything you need to know about people (in general) and men (in particular) if you can appreciate what makes this such an effective approach to marking a vitamin.)

Lets move on. What zoe said. (which is either: why do we do the blog thing that we all do, none of us (well, most of us) professional-get-paid-impressive-salaries-to-write people. So why put in the not-inconsiderable effort to produce Post after Post? And…and more interesting, why our ambivalence towards the idea of simply quitting? My opinion is that blogging is what every 12 year old girl dreams of: changing the world with well expressed thoughts and conflicts resolved with good intentions and everyone can live happily ever after…. (no, send your angry comments to: zoe rewritten it was her Comment!)

Speaking of angry, unsolicited opinions, why have I never….ever….ever seen our kitchen in a TV commercial? We have a nice little house, 2bds /2bath, galley style kitchen…call it 800 sf total living area… even though I mute the commercials, I can still see them and what they show, when selling breakfast and laundry products, (in the world of TV commercials, breakfast is the only meal eaten at home… lunch and dinner is out with friends in restaurants and nightclubs and other places that rogers enjoy. Anyway, the fricken kitchens are huge! (now, for the record, I’m, a real estate broker in a market where homes range in value from 100K to 10MM, so I know from houses. If the ‘normal’ kitchens in TV commercials are used as a standard, the average house would be in the 500-800K price range.

speaking of real estate… gots to get out to work.

apropos of nothing (at least in this Post):

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23rd of 30 the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

September 23, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

Surely today must be a rambling and or otherwise pointless Post, non? (as opposed to a Pointillist Post?) Maybe. Maybe not.

(Semi-not)

I made reference this Sunday past (I love that ‘construction’…. ‘this (whatever time reference) past’ anyone out there know what it’s called? (no, roger…. I don’t believe it’s called ‘cutsey archaic writing style’ I’m pretty sure there’s no such a thing. But thanks for suggesting it.) Hey! speaking of rogers…. a person alone in an empty house: rogers are most likely to have the TV on, not because they are watching it…they might be doing the dishes, paying bills (and yes, rogers ‘love’ paying bills, it’s so orderly and responsible), even vacuuming the house…the TV will be on (if no TV then the radio….preferably talk radio). clarks? they’ll leave the TV off, but they will talk to themselves… out loud. scotts…. are you kidding? stay home in an empty house? hell…there’s stuff to do! people to meet! cars to chase!
(this, btw, is a good illustration of the variety of uses to the Wakefield Doctrine. ok, so rogers like to have the TV on when alone… it’s not just to keep themselves company, it is to ‘be in the Herd’, be a part of the world(Herd). They may not be consciously listening directly to the TV (or the radio…even the talk radio shows), but they are aware of it and it is describing the world, on some level/to some extent and that’s what rogers are about, being in the world of the known, the tradition, the….continuity of people.)

Issue 2. (I might not complete this, I seem to be a on a bit of a roll, what with describing how to infer the worldview of a person and, more importantly, how to expand the metaphor (of the Wakefield Doctrine) in order to enhance your insight into the lives of the people around you. Yeah… sorry, Lizzi! postponing the ‘Boy in the Orange Sweater’ story. Thanks for the suggestion, I did find the story among. What I would like to do, time permitting, is tell the story again and then reprint the story as I wrote it the first time. I’d be interested if there are any difference in the re-telling that may serve as indicators of any effect of the Doctrine on me.

Instead of that, for today’s 23rd Post, hows about some quick tips on determining the predominate worldview of a person?

look at them (be careful now… some are very alert, might be best to observe from some ‘cover’)
scotts: easiest of the three! two words: ‘alert’ scotts you can see on first glance, they’re paying attention, look at the face first, specifically the eyes. there is a look to scotts that are unmistakable. posture is good, very physical, tendency to move quickly and decisively (even with crutches)
clarks: look for bad posture and a distant gaze, listen for low volume-difficult-to-understand-but-distinct-enough-to-think-you-should-listen speech, dress is on the….eclectic side (guy clarks pretty much will wear what amounts, in a fashion-sense as a tent, unless they decide to go totally contrarian (a clark contrarian?? no way!), in which case they’ll be the high school student in the 3 piece suit and wingtip shoes… the female clarks look to the face and head, followed by everything else… take a note pad (where the scottian person reveals their relationship to the world around them in the alertness in their gaze, clarks will be trying to hide, amidst so much fashion-dissonnace that they should able to make a quick getaway (if they feel they are being overly scrutinized.) clarklike female…prefers the couture of the House of Androgyny
rogers: they are of the Herd, they are the excel-by-conformity crowd… dress well, not distinctively. If it’s popular, they will wear it. (hey! want to hear a ‘true’ example of the rogerian worldview? woman I knew, whenever there was reason to have a formal sort of dinner, she would find the latest ‘Home Lovel’y magazine, go to the dinner and recipes section and totally reproduce the dinner that is illustrated…right down to the centerpiece… but that’s not the rogerian part! beautiful table, full of what appears to be delicious (if not somewhat exotic) food …and no salt and no pepper and no butter on the table…. (‘why on earth would you need those? if properly prepared, it’s guaranteed to be good… they said’)
with each of the ‘other two’ worldviews we suggested you could identify on the basis of appearance? …ever see the TV commercial for Angie’s List? ….lol yeah
Observe the person in real life, preferably in a situation where they are interacting with other people
ok? now, Step 1: throw out the ‘no-fricken-way-they’re-a’ and that leaves you with two worldviews. Step 2: decide between the two. (With some of the difficult calls to make, such as between a ‘strong roger‘ and a ‘tired scott‘ you may need to continue observing them interacting with the world. don’t be afraid to go up and talk to them…well, sometimes, be afraid.)
the point of this? Simple. You are trying to infer how that person ‘relates themselves to the world around them’. Know this and you will not only be able to predict their actions and reactions, you will know more about them than they know about themselves

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Post 22 the Wakefield Doctrine (‘so…tell us again about how each of the three types live in a different world’)

September 22, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

Finally! this 30 day challenge has become difficult! Prior to this morning, I haven’t had to sit and stare at the blank computer screen, any longer than would be normal, until this morning.

Wait! (ticker tape noise in the background)…. this just in!!

[“Your list clearly has many a story behind it.. stories which I hope to hear one day. And then there is the lingering thought of what titles, names and experiences would populate my own list. I love this! Love it as only a Clark trying to pass as a real person could love it!”]

“Your list clearly has many a story behind it… there is the lingering thought of what titles, names and experiences would populate my own list. …as only a Clark trying to pass as a real person could love it!”

…comment on yesterday’s Post from writer of Achieving Clarity

Above are two versions of the quote (of a Comment), that forms the basis of today’s Post. Both are included that I verify my status as a clark (predominant) with a secondary scottian and weak tertiary rogerian aspect.

Sorry. I’ll try to be more direct, more scottian, if you will.
Reading ‘Achieving’s’ Comment on yesterday’s TToT Post made me feel good. What makes (the Comment) the basis for a Post is not what she wrote, rather it is in how I related myself to it.
I read the Comment. I thought, ‘I should use that Comment to start a Post’… I read the Comment again and I thought, ‘yeah, but I gots to edit out some of it or I’ll sound like I’m being….’

cha-ching! That, that part about, how, I imagined, Readers would respond, were I to simply cut and paste the entire Comment (into a Post). That’s what today’s Post is all about. My primary concern about using the Comment was: what would Readers think of me if I put in the entire Comment? This little/subjective/totally-in-my-head assessment of a future event in which un-specified people would react in a certain way? that is an example of me ‘relating myself to the world around me.’

(You know what I like the most about you Readers? It’s that no matter how different you are from me, you have that quality. Curiosity and self-confidence when you come across an odd idea… an idea that would make 80% of the general population immediately ‘turn the page’ while muttering something about “…frickin wasting my time.”
… you Readers, on the other hand, will either laugh or smile or raise an eyebrow and think to yourself, “ok… I got a little free time. show me something weird/fun/interesting.” ( Now, some of you will say out loud, “hey!! come here look at what they’re is trying to get away with today! what a riot this Doctrine it… I love this guy!”)

So. Today we have a real world example of the core principle of the Wakefield Doctrine. The reason we make such a big deal out of learning to recognize the characteristics of the three worldviews (clarks/Outsiders and scotts/Predators and rogers/Herd Members) is it puts us in a position to appreciate ‘how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them’. The Doctrine is not about ‘knowing about the other person’… hell! any personality types systems will let you do that! The Wakefield Doctrine is about ‘appreciating the world as the other person is experiencing it’.

What happened to me this morning is that I saw a Comment that complimented me, my writing, the Post, the effects of applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine and I instantly/instinctively/naturally thought about it’s effect on the Readers in ‘the world out there’ and created what I thought was the best strategy.

that is the Wakefield Doctrine. for me, a clark (Outsider worldview), the world and everything and everyone in it is ‘out there…apart-from-me’ and (as an Outsider), my primary concern is to not be too noticeable, to not standout too much (my secondary scottian aspect is what will make sure I’m not ignored…lol). And so, I thought of the best way to edit Achieving’s Comment. That is an example of my clarklike strategy. This, of course, applies equally to those of you who are scotts or rogers, consistent with the character of your personal reality.

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#21 #thewakefielddoctrine #3worldviews #clarksscottsrogers #itsforyounotthem!

September 21, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

Grateful for:

1) Books that connected within the child that I was at time in life that I read them:

Tom Swift Jr
Bullfinch’s Mythology
Stranger in a Strange Land
the Teachings of don Juan (a Yaqui Way of Knowledge)

5) Records that connected me to a world that I really thought was out there:

Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries
Herb Alpert ‘A Taste of Honey’*
Led Zeppelin ‘Led Zeppelin’
Jimi Hendrix Experience ‘Are you Experienced?’

10) People that connected with me…at a point in my life that, I did not have a prayer in the world of appreciating the long-term effects of my interactions with them:

Nancy Jackson
Sister Mary Imelda
Miss Hiester
Coach Collins

3) Situations (that we all encounter) the effects and repercussions are still felt:

Swimming Lessons at age 10
Stuck in a car in a snowstorm on the Bourne Bridge
The boy in the orange sweater
Tufts Small Animal Hospital

2) this has been one of those TToTs that cause me to push back from the keyboard and say, ‘no frickin way! don’t even think about hitting publish.’

4) lol…. (oh, yes I did!)

6) this Post today does, in fact, serve as an illustration of one of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine i.e. ‘manifesting’. We all have similar experiences as we live life; you buy gas at the 7/11, you study really hard for SATs, you get turned down by the girl of your dreams, you feel amazed at the person that your husband as learned to become, your child makes you wonder how you managed to be so fortunate….all the countless parts of a day-in-a-life. However, there are three personality types (in the Wakefield Doctrine) and there is no dividing up/off all these events and feelings, hopes and a-damn-good-job-for-a-guy-like-you, we all experience all of them. It’s how they ‘manifest’ for us, as individuals, that tells us the character of our worldview.

7) (New Readers?) 3 worldviews of the Doctrine:

the world of the Outsider (clarks) in which the world is out there and we are here left to figure it all out, not really introverts as much as people who are trying to ‘pass as real people’…. funny thing about clarks, ‘we do not seek the spotlight, but we do not tolerate being ignored’
the life of the Predator (scotts) the world is here, not next Tuesday and not ‘because she said she never wanted to see me again, I can’t go on‘, scotts act quickly and decisively and often correctly, they are mercurial in temperament, yet totally social. At a party the scottian man or woman will ‘work the room’ (or if they want a rest) they will be entertaining the people gathered around them
the reality of the Herd Member (rogers) the term Herd is sometimes read as being a mindless drone… nothing could be further from the truth…rogers are independent, action oriented, emotional….members of the Herd. rogers wake up every morning with a-certainty-that-does-not-allow-or-require-or-stimulate-a-question that there is a Right way to do things and that is their primary mission, to carry on whatever tradition of correct action shapes their individual lives. They are social the way that books in a library could be said to be social, i.e. there is a connection between and among them all, not necessarily one book on shelf A (2nd Floor Antiquities Collection) and Shelf E2 (Auto Mechanics for the Hobbyist)

8) Man… you know how on some Posts you write and you write and you enjoy it and all…. (then) you stop and you think, ‘damn! gots to be 2000 words better stop here‘ I did and looked and said, “600 words here?!!”

9) If I wasn’t sincere in my efforts to write about things I am grateful for, I wouldn’t stop at Number 9….

10) 1.3 y’all …. (despite or maybe because of the très weird Post and all…lol)