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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘rogers feel

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

And now, last but not least*

(New Readers: this rounds out our survey of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. Don’t forget! A person has only one personality type because they grew up, developed and now live in a predominant worldview that has the characteristics of: the reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predatory(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers). However! We never entirely lose the potential to experience the world as ‘the other two’. We can have a certain ‘streak’ of aggressiveness (scottian) or creativity (clarklike) or emotionality (rogers) flashing through from time to time, most often at times of duress. This does not mean you ‘are both or all three’ and it does not mean that you ‘are a hybrid combination of the three, sorry to say, your system is flawed‘. lol. For example: I’m clearly and obviously a clark (jeez, did you even look at the thumbnail on this post?!!), however, I possess a significant secondary scottian aspect. This means, given the right circumstance, the proper motivation, sufficient motivation, I can be aggressive and impulsively outgoing. At times. In the aforementioned ‘right circumstance’. (lol. and that, like a certain 1940s superhero putting a pair of horn rim glasses and tie back on, ends my scottian demonstration.)

rogers grow up in a life in which things are to make sense, are quantifiable and there is a wrong way to do things and a Right Way of living. Without our rogerian counterparts, cultures and civilizations would last as long as it takes for the next scott to take over. rogers are the: accountants. chemists, engineers, judges, firefighters, politicians, clergy, Boy Scout troop leaders, oncologists, Rockette and/or Esther Williams swimmer/’dancers’; rogers compose the thrilling symphonies that make a tear come to the eye, write the best sellers that seem to be in front of everyone, all of a sudden, they are ShaNaNa and they are Ed Sullivan; rogers are the core of every military, most government organization and the entirety of ‘Middle Management’. Without rogers, the planes would fly until they didn’t (gravity is rogerian, spontaneous combustion is scottian and worn-down critical parts no-one pays attention to are clarks), there would be no baseball, no cross-country skiing; rogers are the chefs (scotts are the short-order cooks and clarks are the busboys(who-somehow-cover-for-both); rogers are both the judges and the DAs and, in a business setting, they will always tell people who the reason a thing is done a certain way is because it’s here, in what we call ‘the Bible’.

Two things about rogers that don’t have a parallel in clarks or scotts:

  1. referential authority whether a member of the clergy or a politician or a world-renowned chef or a high school civics teacher or the creator of the Dewey Decimal system, the reason and basis for them (the roger) telling you what to do is because, “that’s how it’s down/ they always suggest that approach/God tells us to.” It is never because anyone directly involved in the discussion, management meeting or symphony performance requires it, it is because ‘that’s the Right Way to do things.’
  2. rogerian expression. This is a unique-to-rogers thing with language. You will recognize a rogerian expression by the sudden outburst of startled-yet-quite-genuine laughter upon hearing: ‘oh man! Look at how much they deducted for aggravated security’ or ‘no, I am going to wait until they release the un-abashed edition’ perhaps ‘I know I have to give them the bad news with the good news, I just won’t baby-coat it’ or, if you’re lucky‘ I have to say that as a professional class, most real estate agents are much too self-absorbent…”

* so not least. Most, credible estimates of the percentage of the population spending their days looking out over an ever-changing sea of: metal-tagged ears, yellow-plastic electric-fence insulators divining vast oceans of grazing to be on the order of 66% You read that correctly! You and your tight knit group of bffs? At least one of them has the dirt (real or imaginary) on the others and will be happy to share it in exchange for you stepping aside (just a little) so they might better be able to reach out** to everyone else. aka as a roger.

** ‘reach out’, ‘action item’, ‘what’s measured, improves’, ‘drill down’, ‘informativity’, ‘pain point’ and… (this one I wasn’t aware of, but I do want to thank the roger who wrote it so I could end this list strong: ‘Emotional leakage: Anger or disappointment that transfers from one person to another.’

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Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

Comments

  1. This is why it’s so hard for me to convince people that the right way to clean the house is the way that person wants it done. They often want me to show them the “one best way” and there isn’t always one.

  2. rogers feel…of course they do. And as a clark I would ask ‘then what?”
    I’ve been enjoying the primer Wakefield Doctrine posts. It is enjoyable to have the reminders of the basics at the ready. Immersed as I am working in an office made up of 95 percent rogers, it is helpful to keep in mind how the they relate themselves to the world. So very differently from myself.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      rogers leave in the life of the Herd and the Herd is created and bound by emotional content. and, unfortunately for clarks, emotion is not only non-rational, it is achronologic.
      What a poser!

      lol