Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
…’ello*
Welcome to the First of the ‘Hey-it’s-Me’ April Blog Challenge. We invite you to join us for the month of April as we write our way to glory, prosperity and membership in the Herd. For the next 31.. 28 ..until May 1st, allow us to regale you with adventures and insight, stories and parables and the occasional bon mot, as we attempt to present a view of life, as seen through the unique, helpful and totally fun, lens of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
(excuse me… I just pasted the above photo into the Post. I must confess, though I’ve used this image before, I was not aware that it was from the Sistine Chapel. although we are not on the Letter ‘C’ for clarks, my enjoyment of learning a new, if not of questionable value, fact is a primary characteristic of the… ‘Outsider personality type’. whatever)
So, why ‘Apple’? why not Anticipation or Ancillary or, hell…. Anaconda? Well, wait. Anticipation was, in fact, the first ‘A’ word I thought to use in our little blog Challenge.
Hey new Readers! There’s a lot to learn in order to be able to use the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for better understanding the people in your world. Nothing overly technical, or esoteric (ok, maybe just a touch of the esoteria), simply learn the characteristics of the three worldviews, (which is how we refer to the three personality types in our theory). However! if you want something that will really flatten your learning curve, following is an example of the Doctrine being applied:
‘…I just took a break from writing this Post (right at the end of the ‘So, why Apple? sentence.) I had a scratch-off lottery ticket that I got yesterday at the fast station. As I was carefully removing that semi-metallic coating, to see if I won anything, I realized that how I approached as mundane and seemingly inconsequential task as scratching a lottery ticket not only was a reflection of my predominant worldview, but also illustrated how the experience of ‘Anticipation’ was manifested in my personal reality! The vast majority of these ‘games’ have you uncover 4 or 5 numbers (or symbols) and if there is a match, then the price (also hidden) under that match is your reward. I think we will all agree there is a sense/feeling/state of anticipation involved in this exercise. hey! screw the long explanation. here’s a photo the actual lottery ticket that I am basing my first Wakefield-to Doctrine blog Challenge Post on:
New Readers?? you still with us? That’s great! While most of the people who enjoy using the Wakefield Doctrine are able to look at this photo and say, ‘damn! that there is the non-winning lottery ticket of a clark, for sure!’ I will tell you why and, in the process of doing so, let you decide if I shoulda stuck with ‘A-is-for-Anticipation’, as opposed to ‘A-is-for-them-naked-people-on-the-ceiling-of-an old-church’.
…so you have a ticket and you believe what it says, ‘Win up to $2,000!’ but you don’t know that for a fact. You realize that you may have wasted a dollar. There’s the anticipation (which, astute Readers realize, contains yet another insight into the world of the Outsider)… so how do you manage the excitement? More importantly, how do you manage the possible disappointment? You carefully scratch the necessary parts of the card that informs you of your impending emotional state, you do not, I repeat, do not do anything that might heighten the emotional state.
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.
the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, engaging and fun way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. Through the use of the tools that comprise the Doctrine, we will at long last be able to answer the question, ‘Now why on earth would they go and act like that? I really thought I knew them better!’
Before you leave. We have friends who are writing some genuinely good stuff for the ‘My-Name-is-Not-Zucchini’ April Blog Challenge do yourself a favor and go read their Posts:
Christine and Dyanne Kristi and Val and…. of course, Z
About clarkscottroger
I’m not a big fan of the scratch off (is that Rogerian?) but I do appear to be FRIST!
total Frist (in a very significant month, rogerianistically-speaking, of course)
Hahaha! Very nice start to the challenge, Clark!
For my grandma’s 90th birthday, everyone gave her scratch-off lottery tickets. OH, the anticipation was high, seeing that stack of cards. During the party, several of us helped her scratch them off. So many different ways of doing it! I didn’t think about it until this very post, though. The methods ranged from scratch off every single little bit of silver to don’t bother, just take the card into the store and have them scan it.
And thanks for the shout out!
thanks Christine… (I noticed that you did a last minute, fresh content Post, yourself!)
this bloghop has been pretty easy so far…. (yeah, a free one for anyone out there)
Perhaps ADD should have been considered…. Nice take off buddy!
I scratch a ticket like you do…. so rare to buy a ticket though.
Love your ADD comment, Ivy.
we prefer the term, improvisational creativity! lol
liked yours, (I ended up going directly from my own blogroll…if you have any interesting ‘neighbors’ over in the high rent part of the list, let me know!)
Believe me you arent slumming it in your part of the list… I went to three blogs of my neighbors and two had posts from Jan and one was 2014… I guess they missed the kickoff! I came here to use your blogroll list as well…. lol…really…. I dont have one …. I still have to set up my blog to be more user friendly….Thanks for stopping in.
fer sure… I got to a couple of ‘stranger posts’ (funny thing about having a secondary scottian aspect… when I find a blog I decide that I like, I see to, somehow, be comfortable like writing anything…no matter how weird… lol)
I can’t even find myself on the gigantic list o’ A-Zers. If you happen to see me, in the slums or otherwise, please let me know. :)
YOU COULDN’T EVEN BOTHER TO SCRATCH OFF ALL THE SILVER?! Oh, Clark!
well, no! I have to manage my disappointments, don’t I?
COOOOL cheerleader :)
hey good to see you
Thanks
I didn’t just stick to one “A” word, so I don’t think there is anything wrong with A being both for apple and anticipation.
Thanks for the shout-out.
Kristi
You are certainly welcome. You know, while I’m certainly glad to do this bloghop, it does cause me to appreciate ours… not that there’s anything wrong with a 2,000 blog ‘hop… it’s just that, long-term I think I prefer the more personal approach
Anticipation, indeed! Nice to “meet” you. :)
– Carrie Butler, A-Z Minion
GAH! Stop trying to get me to eat the Apple which is the Wakefield Doctrine you sneaky snake!
Glad to see you are participating in the A to Z, old friend :) It should be a great way to introduce some “fresh fish” to the Doctrine. Go easy on them!
but it’s so…. enticing, there is so much to know… (we all float at the Wakefield Doctrine)