Month: October 2016 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘and nothing can ever be the same again’

October 31, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

I thought I’d indulge in some nostalgia and use clips from a wonderful movie that I can’t say for certain I seen in it’s entirely and, by doing so, flash back to post-writing as it was in the early years of this here blog here.

That second point, the way we used to write posts? That was during the time when I would post something every single day. ‘But clark,’ you might be saying. ‘what possibly could provide interesting content in sufficient supply to fill a post every day?’

Good question.

But first our movie clip.

The Time Warp from Javier Martínez C. on Vimeo.

Almost too late. The future is eating my past. There is no clip from the Rocky Horror Picture Show that begins with Rick and Janet knocking on the door of Dr. Frank N Furter’s castle to ask to use the phone on youtub. There are tons of videos of stage plays based on the movie, clips of a movie about the movie, even some totally well-intentioned local drama club productions. But simple clips from the original? Gone like a life-giving nutrient inadvertently absorbed by a malignant tumor. The tumor grows and the host dies.

Well, that certainly puts a happy glow on the work week ahead, doesn’t it?

Anyway… the subtitle to today’s Post is from the above song. And it represents the second manifestation of nostalgia. There was a time that a song lyric or commercial on TV or even the label on a jar of pickles proved provocative enough to write a thousand words*… in the original sense of the word, of course

mid-15c., “eliciting,” from Middle French provocatif (15c.) and directly from Late Latin provocativus “calling forth,” from provocat-, past participle stem of Latin provocare (see provoke). Specifically of sexual desire from 1620s (courtesy of our friends at the Online Etymology Dictionary)

Perhaps the point of today’s post is to remember that, just as the Doctrine would have us understand self-improvement, positive change is more a matter of will than effort.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for understanding the world around us, especially as it’s applied to the people who make it up. The proper use of the Doctrine will allow a person to better understand themselves and therefore lead happier, more intentioned days.

So when you’re out there today** and you encounter people doing things that annoy or perplex you, consider:

if the sales clerk (who’s wearing all sorts of metallic shit on her/his face) looks back at you with an evasively hopeful expression but mumbles so badly that you want to shake them by the shoulders (which would result in a funny, cartoon dust cloud with things flying out of it, at first an earring and maybe an eyebrow stud, but would quickly escalate to, like, tin cans, nails, wrenches and finally a full-sized anvil) and say, ‘speak up’ Ask yourself: “Could this be one of those clarks that the Wakefield Doctrine speaks so enthusiastically of? Maybe, in the world of the ‘Outsider’ all that crap on her/his face is not awful, but a well-intentioned and thoroughly sincere badge of honor. Too bad! All that they have to do is speak clearly and look at me!”
your shift manager, boss, VP of HR, who always says ‘Good Morning’ or ‘Good Night’ (and follows each with a list of details describing what will follow in their lives for the day, whether they’ll be going to the gym, picking up the kids or mowing the lawn, there will be more information than you really need) has sent you an email, note, message or asked the admin to say something to you that makes you feel on the defensive, stop and ask yourself, “If this person is a roger, which given his/her deliberate choice of clothing, pronounced punctuality, giant (and sometimes mean-sounding) laughter, how the hell do I make certain this warning is about me and not the person to my right? Well, those Doctrine people seem pretty sure of themselves, and they say that this personality type is like a Member of a Herd, so whats the best way to interact with a member of a herd without causing a stampede?”
holy shit! that guy talks fast! always fun them fun but jeez, if they slowed down just a little then their: test scores/batch quality/performance review would be a lot less stressful, maybe he/she is what they call a scott in that blog. well, only one way to find out, “Hey! How you doin!” (damn, it worked! they’re not running away and they’re not at my throat!) “I need your help on a thing.” (would you look at that! don’t know why they call this personality type a Predator…) “Listen, I know you mean well, but we have rules here and we all think it’d be best that you stop…..”
(lol)

Enough for now. Am out to try and not let the hours slip.

*well, sure, there is so,thing to be said about the difference between writing quality versus quantity, but that’s for another post

** a totally clarklike way to express the thought

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 29, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

A bloghop with gratitude as the motif, raison d’être, rationale and/or theme of this here bloghop here. The one that Lizzi built. The one that lets you describe the parts of your day/last seven days/life to date that incites you to feel grateful for those events, circumstances and people (especially people). So send in your list and join the fun.

1) Una and Phyllis

2) work (yeah, right)

3) Autumn…. (ok, you’ve had your little joke. Get serious)

4) youtube? yeah, totally grateful for the youtube.

5) the delay this weekend is attributable to my trying to complete the current chapter of ‘Almira‘. In which we follow as Almira and Sterling leave RI and head towards Circe. I say ‘head towards’, because they’re not in any real rush or anything. All they intend to do is return an envelope that Sterling’s friend Cyril Sauvage gave him when they were in France for the war. Cyril did not make it out of Europe, so seeing how Sterling and Almira would be more comfortable being, ‘un-findable’ by certain law enforcement officials, Circe is as a good a place as any to head towards. Also (in Chapter 30) Eliza chats with Phyllis McCutcheon and learns a little more about her friend Dorothy Gale.

6) glad that zoe hosts the Six Sentence Story every Thursday. Good exercise or practice or whatever you all it. Fun, though.

7) Hey! I’m reading (and enjoying) Cynthia’s Book, ‘Marina’s Broken Grave’

It’s available for kindle and such on amazon… go here and get yourself a copy.

8) No TToT would be complete without mention of everyone’s favorite ‘loopholus compendia giganta‘, the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)

9) And, the Graviteers! Hey! take a bow, y’all…. thats Val and Lisa, Joy and Sarah and Kristi and…. Christine (who is gallivanting across the country, racking up mad road trip red.)

10) SR 1.3

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘it takes one to know one’

October 27, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Warm up. Nothing to read yet. You know, little stretching before running (yeah, as if). Maybe a better analogy might be singing (or other musical instrument operating), yeah! that’s it hold on, I’ll get us a video.

Yeah! Now we’re talking… or singing, ok, humming, only ’cause I’m a clark and we have a problem with the singing thing.

So, what the hell would a proper ‘classic rhetoric warm up exercise’ consist of?

Oh man! No, seriously, I searched and read and, seeing how that was, like, 20 minutes ago, no way I can continue this humorous set up. There are way more cool, Greco-latin words for talking funny than I’d ever realized. Man, them grammarians and rhetorians know how to have fun with the writing and the words and such.

Speaking of words. Our friend zoe does this thing, every Thursday, called the Six Sentence Story. It’s a bloghop (so there’ll be other stories to read and enjoy) and it requires that only Six Sentences go into any story (so it won’t take too long to read ’em).

Stick.

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,’ the little boy thought, his frown every bit the all-or-nothing exertion of a body builder, facing the weight no longer supported by anything other than muscles and will.

‘That’s what I should’ve said,’ walking along the leaf-carpeted street in the gathering dusk of a cloudy autumn Thursday, the boy felt his initial anger begin to transmute into embarrassment. Like the first drink to an alcoholic, his consideration of what he might have said or done changed everything, without anything changing. If he could now see what he might have done differently, then the impact of what actually happened was diminished, what he wanted to have happened increasingly the basis for how he felt. With each logically-inferred alternate version of the recent bus stop drama playing and replaying in his mind, rendered in meticulous detail, the boy felt better and better; the land of normal emotional connections trading places with the mirage, the unreal become real and the real, avoidable.

As he walked from the pool of yellowish streetlight up the flagstone walk towards the house, it’s picture window a welcoming borealis of blue-grey television light, the boy felt less and less like crying.

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2uesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 25, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

I must confess to a somewhat sordid and ego-centric motivation for my writing a post today, the second on as many days and quite out of the ordinary for this blog, at least as of late. That I never tire of writing about the benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine is not surprising, the way the mind has of turning things around in a manner at once misleading, (in the actual effects of certain behavior) and somehow obviously not what the original intention, is.

….whew!

At least my pendantric gland remains in robust good health! No, you’re right, I shouldn’t joke. This is serious.

…ok, I hear you. ( from the back of a classroom that, in my mind is as real as the plastic keys that shape the light into letters on my screen.) I hear “Hey! You’re writing about a personality theory that’s called, ‘the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’!! Don’t worry about anyone taking this too seriously! And, since you’ve given voice to a character-in-a-visualization-of-an-idea, tell ’em what this ‘classroom’ looks like, why dont’cha.”)

Sure.

This classroom that’s providing me with a subtly engaging context for today’s discussion of the use of the Wakefield Doctrine? The desks have wrought-iron frames that are bolted to the floor, they aren’t simply uprights to support the desk and the seat. These frameworks have curves and almost classical lines, filigree in dark bronze. The desk itself is a slanted surface of wood (maybe maple… yeah, probably maple) that’s hinged along the top edge, where there continues a 3 inch level band of wood, with a groove running from left to right for pencils and a circular hole on the right side for the bottle of ink that you’ll never be given. Inside is simply space for your dotted-middle lined pad of paper, spare flash cards and a chipped-and-picked-at (for ammunition) brick of flesh-colored gum eraser. Oh, yeah and two Lindy pens well-tooth-indented.

The classroom is 5 rows across and seven deep. The nuns are nothing if they’re not orderly. In the very back of the room is what you love to hear referred to as ‘the wardrobes’… pretty much closets with folding doors and a double row of brass coat hooks. There are two doors to the corridor with windows at adult height and a single inward-tilting transom window. There is a pole in the back of the room to operate these windows. The blackboard is black and there are 4 black felt erasers (with a red and white label on the non-erasing surface) in a metal tray running along the lower edge. Across the wall, just above the blackboard are the letters of the alphabet, (capital and small) in script. Above the row of letters, in the dead center is a crucifix. The teacher’s desk is entirely wooden, and her chair does not have wheels. The floors are tile (greenish and black in a checkerboard pattern). There is a black and white clock on the inside wall, well above reach. All your friends are there…

hey, sorry! wordisthenics time is over for the morning. Will try to get back later in the day. Feel free to leave any (additional) classroom details in the Comments

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Monday Post -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘what?! did I read that correctly?!!!* whats going on here?’

October 24, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick, before it fades from my mind, ‘within yesterday’s memory are all the lessons I need to make today the kind of day that I would hope it might be.’

whew! damn, that was close!

No, serially! I was (deliberately) veering from the path I found myself on this morning and the forces of sameness were totally marshaling to get me back on track. ‘back on track’ aka in the same old rut. (Funny how the truisms of life seem to be dual purpose, isn’t it?)

Anyway, as Ellias McDaniels, (no fair looking the name up! If I’m going to all the effort and social risk of getting obscure, then the least you can do is allow me the pleasure of your response that you know the reference.*), would say…

So, why the Monday Post? Two reasons:

I’m trying to side-step my internal critic (that part of me who knows the true measure of my abilities and is kind enough to not let me write anything thats not up to the standards that I should be living up to)
I’m in self-improve-by-virtue-of-better-organizing-my-time mode. (Tell me that thats not the single most aggravating aspect of your day!) Well, tell me that, if you’re a clark. Speaking of which, how long has it been since I’ve written a ‘hey! this is the Wakefield Doctrine! you wanna hear about the best personality theory you’re ever going to hear about?’
thanks! whoever that was in the back of the room (metaphorically speaking) and speaking of back of the class… can anyone out there tell me the personality type who gravitates to the back of the class, the back of the lecture hall, the back of the crowd at the annual awards ceremony and the front of the car? I’ll give you some time. Hell! I’ll give you the rest of this morning to answer.

So, the Wakefield Doctrine is an approach to personality types that will allow you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. With the Doctrine, you will no longer have ask the world, ‘how could I fall for that again! I really thought I knew them better than that!!’
With the Wakefield Doctrine as (an) additional perspective on life, (and that’s what it and every other ‘theory’ of ‘personality’ actually is, and I’m totally including the Oscar Myers Briggs&Stratton, the ‘what color is my vegetable’ (current fav on ‘the Facebook’) and Jung’s ‘What!?! No, I’m not saying that Fred and Wilma were real, I’m saying that archetypes…never mind!’) personality theories. With the Wakefield Doctrine you will be in position to see the other people in your life in a context that allows their behavior to make sense. And that’s all any of us want, isn’t it?**

Well, running out of time this morning, so the basics:

clarks the Outsider: the simplest way to describe this personality type (and to test yourself for clarklike tendencies) is that this person wakes up each and every morning thinking, ‘ok the world and everyone is still out there, I know I can figure it out today’
scotts the Predator: the person most like to be voted: jeez! I’d love to be able to be like that,…. scotts will bound out of bed, ready for whatever is waiting, and they know there’s something waiting outside the bedroom door/at the office/among the kids at the daycare and that annoying woman who is so judgmental
rogers the Herd Member: if you got a little annoyed at the (numbered) bullet points because I clearly said ‘two’ and you have a certain confidence that everything that must be achieved in your day will be, if for no other reason than the fact that your list has the important things at the top; rogers don’t wake up thinking, they wake up planning, and they most assuredly do not bound out of bed, one could sprain an ankle being so reckless, and besides, there’s no rush, the schedule is simple and well established.

…gotta run (or walk (or stroll)) out into the world.

*totally a clark thing, if you respond, ‘yeah, clark, who do you love’ I will feel a surge of pride in my getting to hang out with people who are of a place that allows them to know a semi-obscure musical reference (and that’s that only hint you get!)

** yeah, that is a trick question