Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
now, this is an old school Wakefield Doctrine blog Post!
So I’m surfing the channels on this faux Sunday afternoon, (aka a Monday holiday), and I come across a reality show by the name of, ‘Wicked Tuna’. I like the ocean and the idea of being out on a boat, so naturally, I tarried a bit and what do I hear, from one of the characters but, “this seemed like a good spot, and everyone got out of their bunks and out on deck. We had to wait a bit, so everyone could shake the cobwebs out of their eyes”
damn! rogerian expression!
that! your reaction to reading the line from the show, that’s how you know you’ve encountered a genuine rogerian expression. Of course, you can read all about rogers here, on the page on rogers. But a quick and simple description of a rogerian expression is, ‘the deliberate misuse of a nearly correct word (or phrase), expressly aggressive, but assayed from within the context of the herd. …and startlingly funny, too.’
And that’s why I love the Wakefield Doctrine. It’s always there and, like your first serious girlfriend (or boyfriend), there’s this sense of having something special that you know that everyone else knows nothing of, at least, not the parts that make you feel good, (when you know you should be feeling bad), or laugh, (when you’d really be more comfortable crying). It’s all about this secret sharing. And even though you know better, after all, you’re not a kid anymore, those moments still, somehow mean more to you than anyone can understand.
Speaking of understanding, Chapter 14 of ‘Almira’ is out and the words are just waiting for you to pull up a comfortable chair and settle in for a quiet time finding out what terrible thing happened to young Almira Ristani, (who you would first know as Almira Gulch, in that scandalously misrepresented tale of ‘the Wizard of Oz’), back in 1911, on a cold December night. As the subtitle of Almira reminds us all, ‘theres always more to the story’. If you want to start at the start, follow this link here.
(New Readers? the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people in our lives. It maintains that there are three ‘personality types’, clarks, scotts and rogers. And, if you learn the characteristics of these three worldviews (personality types), you will be in a position to know more about the people you encounter everyday, than they know about themselves. And, even better, when you recognize a person’s worldview, you’ll know what they’re going to do before they do! It’s simple and it’s fun. Try it!)
*courtesy of ‘the youtube’ an album full of music that took some of the fear from Sunday evenings in a near empty dormitory click here
