Month: March 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 8, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

What good is all this?

…. meaning, the amazing consistency of behavior to type, the congruence of predicated characteristics to actual elements in reality. You know, ‘how true the three personality types are to the experience we have in the ‘real’ world’.

A lot of good if you’re a clark. Less, if you’re a scott or a roger, depending on the level of significance of your secondary and tertiary aspects.

Tell you what, being Monday, lets keep it simplest.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool. And, just like the saw and the plane, and, even the raw wood itself, they are not the hand-fashioned chair or chest-of-drawer, that is the product of skilled effort. As a tool, the Doctrine provides one more perspective on ourselfs, the world around us and the people who make it up. And, as anyone will tell you, the more perspectives, the better.

So, lets conclude this post with a fun little bullet-point list of things the Wakefield Doctrine is and isn’t, (and, it behooves all of us to help the secondary/tertiary aspect-challenged among the people around us to work through this):

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
the Wakefield Doctrine is not an Answer, (if you’re smart and lucky), however, it provides a bunch of useful Questions
the goal of the Doctrine is to better understand how we relate ourselves to the world around us
…and, in doing so, (or even the mere effort), we can see the world as the other person is experiencing it

Thats all for this morning…

Gots me a song in my head, it’ll help if I post it (misery shared is misery diminished) and let it play in your heads all day.

…thanks

Complete with video to make residual memories of younger days flash in your day-to-day world like Tyler Durden*

*most excellent movie

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 6, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

The first Thing of Thankful, (this week*), is the lifeform known as Una.

Close behind, (or next to (or behind (or, possibly, even driving))), is Phyllis

The Top Three is rounded out, (or up), in a potentially-interesting condition of self-reference hinting at more than the writer can convey, (at this writing), is the Wakefield Doctrine.

For? Fore? No!! Four. He smiled at the patina of cleverness to a subtle allusion to the next entry. ‘Behold’, he whispered, ‘The Six Sentence Story!’

Five stands for LIVE! As in, live on Facebook, every Wednesday evening at 5:30 pm, the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing

Six… well, yeah, we suppose we could’ve held off ’til now to cite the Six Sentence Story… but we d’int

Seven is usually reserved for the serial stories, (’cause, like, you know, the ‘s’s in the…. never mind), ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’

Eight Lizzi because it was in 1908, with the very first dropping of the Times Square New Year Eve’s ball, that the first inkling of the idea behind this bloghop saw the light of day.

Nine …hostinae Dyanne (only a slip of a girl when the Times Square celebration began)

Ten Secret Rule 1.3. ’cause what kind of grat blog would this be if’n it didn’t have a Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules)

music

https://vimeo.com/447656890

* position alternates on a weekly basis, primarily due to intermittent awww factor and/or photographer ego

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 4, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story blog.

Denise is the host.

This is a Whitechapel Interlude week. (For those too impatient, here is the link to the backstory-chapter for this week’s installment, Chapter 9.)

The prompt word:

THEORY

“Witch!!”

Sarah turned at the sibilant that tore like thorns at her cloak, as she pushed through the eternal dusk of soot, smoke and despair that made the alleys of Whitechapel as much a swamp as slum; the wisdom of the rule to return to the safe haven of the Order, before nightfall, gave an edge to her fear.

“Grab her,” the two words were her last memory prior to waking, lying in a cobblestone alley, an island of reason battered by hands and leers, animal howls forcing her to retreat within her mind; from somewhere near where childhood memories nestle against morning-forgotten dreams, Sarah felt a presence.

*I thought we agreed I would be Katherina, your friend from so far and so long ago*, there was the slightest of a petulance shaping the silent voice, yet an undertone of luxuriating in anticipation, like the moment before a lover’s awakening.

“You are a demon who can act only with my cooperation,” Sarah’s thoughts became strained as the men in the alley scented prey;

*Well, Sarah, might I suggest we put theory into practice… before your attackers do our healthy, young body any permanent damage?*

“You have my consent,” the hunter demon, currently-named Katherine, smiled, and in the midnight-darkness, howls of lust stretched into screams of pain and finally, as the young woman walked from the alley, dying whimpers.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 2, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

As a tool for self-developing oneself?

The Wakefield Doctrine offers one more way to approach self-improvement. Which manifests, in the three personality types, as:

clarks(the Outsider)… bring it on, where do I sign? No, no, wait… lets not start yet, lets consider what it is that I totally know I need to change about myself….hold on! Give me a minute… lol
scotts(the Predator)… you know people who are interested in self-help and self-improvement? where are they, no! Its better without introduction, you know, lets surprise them, there’s nothing about us that they really, actually need to know first… I’ll help them understand what they want to be… yum, yum
rogers(the Herd Member)… why, that must be terrible for you, I’ll be glad to help, no, no need, I have the list in my head, where do you want to start? Me? whatever gave you that idea? …well, to be completely honest, I wouldn’t mind getting better at explaining things…. you know, how they’re supposed to be? You’d be surprised at how quickly those other two would improve once they realize there’s a Right way to do things…. are you writing this down?

lol

A little fun with our three personality types.

But seriously.

All clarks and those scotts and rogers with sufficiently significant secondary clarklike aspect*, will be saying, “I’m listening. What’cha got in the way of tools, methods or approaches to making me an even better version of myself?”

More to follow… provided a Comment with a question appears that is not written by Denise or Mimi or Cynthia**

* it’s long been established that if you’re here, reading this and it is your second visit, then you are probably a clark or, if you are not, then you are a scott or a roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect. You know, ’cause of the no-practical-return-necessary curiosity.

** the question, not the Comment. Comments from all Readers contribute to our understanding and use of this here Doctrine here.***

*** ok, Denise and Mimi and Cynthia can write questions into their Comments… but….they have to me multiple choice!

lol

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 1, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

It took me nine years to write a post on the first day of March (as opposed to the third or the seventeenth).

Be that as it may, the Wakefield Doctrine, (as I will far more eloquently say it in the reprint below), is a tool for better appreciating how we relate ourselves to the world around us.

One of the developments in our understanding of the Doctrine since this was written is ‘the Everything Rule’. It states that ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another‘. And that means there is nothing exclusive to one, and not the other two, worldviews. The useful part of this observation/rule is that it prompts us to consider how: a thing/job/random act/slick-move-at-the-end-of-the-second-date/reason-for-not-serving-on-jury-duty/relationship-to-a-cultural-or-political-entity manifests in the personal reality of the person in question.

And…and! this prompt reminds us of one of the most important aspects of the use of the Wakefield Doctrine: translation. You’re talking to a roger and come to a point of disagreement… the words you hear do not mean precisely what they sound like...if you’re a clark or a scott.

Translating from the other person’s predominant worldview will save time and make it possible for you to achieve one of the primary ambitions of this here personality theory here, to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Not enough time!

On with the reprint from March 1, 2012

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

You know the ease with which some of us ‘get’ the core concept of the Wakefield Doctrine, there is an equal ease in missing the point of this thing of ours. We are fond of saying that the first people who come to this blog are among the ‘best and brightest’ that the blogosphere has to offer. They see the incredible insights that this Doctrine affords them, the ridiculously effective tools that allow you to understand why people behave the way that they do…not to mention the fun we (the Progenitors and DownSprings and FOTDs have, what with hats and Drives and videos and all). And yet, sometimes people struggle with the (underlying) principles of the Doctrine which in turn makes it more difficult for them to acquire the full understanding of this thing, limiting their ability to contribute to the ongoing process.
When this happens, we blame ourselves. We accept that, while all efforts are made to be simple and clear in the different Pages illustrating the different personality types and offering examples (of these types) that can be seen in the public culture, sometimes it is not enough! So as Malcolm said, ‘We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand‘.

The Wakefield Doctrine is not a theory, the Wakefield Doctrine is a label for a perspective. This perspective is one by which we look at the behavior of another person and make the assumption that (their) behavior makes perfect sense and is entirely appropriate in some reality.

The Wakefield Doctrine suggests that all people live their lives not only in the ‘common reality’ that we all share, but in an individual reality that is the context in which they act and react, feel and make assumptions to base their behavior.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that there are three individual realities (or ‘worldviews’) that have characteristics that can be associated with the three personality types: the worldview of ‘the outsider’, the worldview of ‘the predator’ and the worldview of ‘the herd member’.

The Wakefield Doctrine tells us that ‘personality’ is not a collection of traits, a list of typical behaviors or even a self-reported series of likes and dislikes all charted out on a multi-axis diagram, rather personality is simply the repeated reactions and strategies that all people develop in order to get through life as best they can.

The Wakefield Doctrine takes the critical step of saying, ‘hey, if we dropped you at a very early childhood age into the world of the clark, you would grow up a clark‘,
The Wakefield Doctrine takes the bold step of saying, ‘take a child of less than 4 years of age and drop them into the predator/prey worldview of a scott to grow up in and I will tell which person at a PGA championship will yell, “get in the hole!!!” ‘
The Wakefield Doctrine says, ‘what other explanation accounts for grown men wearing authentic period-fabric Army uniforms of the Civil War era and spending entire weekends practicing formations!!!??!”

The Wakefield Doctrine says to all of us the following:

all of us are predominately one of the three types and yet we retain the capability to act as the other two

the trick to using the Doctrine is simple, don’t try to make sense of what people are doing until you infer the worldview that they are doing it in

if you are not sure if a person is a clark, scott or roger, eliminate the most obvious (i.e. the girl with the sequins on her face and the mini skirt over the jeans? probably safe to scratch off ‘scott’

practice on yourself, you can’t get this thing wrong! If you want to tell everyone that you are a scott, everyone will be polite and nod and say sure as you put on your beret and get your pipe and slippers and sit down to read ‘Genealogy Quarterly’

it is the world that you are living in, not the things that you do that make you a clark or a scott or a roger

finally, ‘the Doctrine is for you, not for them‘

Alright. You have your assignments! Someone send that guy with the megaphone and the portable strobe light in… me and scott need to have some private time with that ole boy.

You are to be congratulated for your attention, as a reward a repeat video clip…. (er Molly?…AP? you know how when you watched ‘This is Spinal Tap’ well the thing is, not so much a parody. lol hey it was the 70s)