Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Mad comments on this reprint. Not that they show. Kitchen sink principle can, with proper application of perspective, can be resisted. Heck, it can be overcome.
They, (past Comments), can be instructive and encouraging to re-read. Sorta like what people write in each other’s year books, ‘cept no one knows there’s no, “Next! Year!♥! Falls just a short Trip” (signature with the excess enthusiasm of youth here).
There is no bitterness or, even cynicism in that last description. There is only an attempt to self-remind myself that most of what makes a day seem difficult is energy. And, by energy, we mean more ‘spirit’ than an excess of ” Mg2+, ADP, inorganic phosphate Pi, H+, NH3, ROS and heat“*. What slows down many of us is the clutter of life experience. ‘Oh, man! The day I have coming up!’ … ‘Sorry, just got too much on my plate this Monday‘ … ‘No fricken way!’
It isn’t, (ioo**), the amount of work we face. It isn’t even the resources we can muster to deal with and, ideally, succeed in completing the day. It is about the energy we have going into it. And…and! the ironic part? It isn’t even that…that last thing? About having enough energy? It is, as the Wakefield Doctrine encourages, ‘appreciating how we relate ourselfs to the world around us’.
Briefly, then on with the reprint.
The thing with getting older and not feeling like: a) there are not enough hours in the day or 2) you don’t have enough energy/strength/stamina, is that it all starts with our opinion/relationship with the world/reality/today. That thing the Doctrine maintains, ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up’? It’s talking about the present-singular. It is not talking about:
- the ramifications of incomplete or insufficient performance of the tasks and duties that lie before us today
- the guilt and/or un-realistic hopes for changing how people regard us
- the elimination of future problems
- the resolution of past, remembered events, not from a mere historical perspective, but an emotional perspective
None of those.
There is not enough energy, or time in the world, to assure a guaranteed successful complete. (Hokey smoke! Did you just read that?!! “…too assure a guaranteed….” ayiiee***)
In conclusion: the problem with not having, (or being certain we don’t have), enough energy to deal with the day ahead, is about how we define: ourselves, our world.
what? oh yeah!! the reprint!!
‘of flowers and friends, predators and insights’ the Wakefield Doctrine (a personality theory that you will enjoy learning)
June 5, 2013 By
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
DownSpring Cyndi is doing a hop over at her blog ‘Pictimilitude‘ The theme is ‘flowers’ and seeing how the topic of this (reprint) Post is the scottian worldview, it’s only natural for me to include a photo of a bloomin’* pine tree, innit?
In any event, this post on the scottian personality types is what the visitor Readers from North Cottage-cheese-on Rye, Cambrian Keep, Northlands UK were looking at yesterday. Now that I see that ‘in print’, it does prompt me to bring the focus on the issue of ‘secondary aspects’. There would appear to be a marked predominance of the scottian worldview as (the) secondary aspects for a lot of the clarks that be learning about this here personality theory here. I say this because, Friend of the Doctrine Melanie has a post today at ‘Scribbles and Smiles‘, which is an excellent illustration of how, with the inflection** of a (clark’s) secondary aspect… i.e. one who can be nearly un-noticeable (a lot of the time), becomes totally the center of attention. Considerer (although she has not yet determined for herself, the nature of her secondary aspect***) also demonstrates the delightful quality that is sometimes found in clarks, i.e. we may not insist on being the center attention, but there is no way we will be ignored (if we so choose).
So…here is our contribution
scotts, ‘prey drive’ and the Wakefield Doctrine (“Mr. Gorbachev, feed that dog!”)
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. If you are looking for a self-improvement tool, or an easy-to-use system for self-development, then you have totally stumbled on to the right ‘place’!
The Wakefield Doctrine has a thing about looking at people, you know, how they act and stuff? …we guarantee that if you got the smarts to understand this, (and not everyone does), then you will know more about that other person than they know about themselves. Pretty frickin cool, no? But if you’re looking for one of those, “Six Ways to get any Boy to Like you” or “Satisfy the Woman in your dreams!! ” or ” How to get your Boss off your back!” self-improvement things then stop reading. Right now.
This Wakefield Doctrine thing is so not that kind of personality theory. (Not saying that you won’t be able to ‘satisfy the Woman in your Dreams’ or ‘get your Boyfriend a Job’), just that what we have here takes a little more…. flexible intelligence. So. Read already!No, the Wakefield Doctrine is not like those other self-development books….the Wakefield Doctrine is fun and it is useful and it is fun…
Today we are going to talk about scotts! (Want to get a quick overview of the Doctrine? go here and read….be sure to come back!)
scotts, scotts scotts! where to start? … hell, it’s Thursday, lets take the easy way out just to get the ball rolling, so to speak.1
Some bullets points relating to the nature and character of the scottian personality type:
- scotts are totally emotional but in a way so very different from rogers, mercurial is the right word for the emotional characteristic of scotts
- scott in a band? the ‘front man’ every time (don’t believe me? go look at the photo of the progenitors, click here those three mugs were in a band together (yeah, I know!) and can you tell me who the front man was?…hell you know which one is the Progenitor scott without anyone telling you, don’t you?)
- at a party scotts will introduce themselves (…..to everyone)
- when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee
- scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, …hardly ever both.
- (female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (go ahead….ask us why)
Seeing how the scottian population is of late growing here at the Doctrine, lets cater to their totally famous short attention-spans and use a video that shows us a scott doing what they do best! Watch and learn, binyons!
How scottian was David Caruso’s character? how clarklike was DeNiro’s character? and the cop that backed down to the scott?, not too rogerian ! Hell! he was the only one in the scene to have a hat on his damn head!
So lets review:clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. scotts are often wrong, but never uncertain. scotts make good leaders, (at least when decisive action is required…when long-term objectives take precedence over short-term victory…not so much). scotts are ‘the life of the party’… scotts are the best of joke tellers and are natural mimics. scotts will feed on rogers and enjoy the challenge of clarks… scotts will give you the shirt off his back/ the use of her boyfriend but will not tolerate being ignored… they are un-selfish and short-sighted… ingenious and stupid… emotional and shallow… sexy and predatory… endearing and dangerous… get the picture?
* bloomin’ we trust DownSpring Considerer to vet our use of English idiom here…
** a rogerian expression
*** it is custom, here at the Doctrine to allow the individual to be the final authority on their predominant worldview as well as secondary and tertiary aspects
Hey! Winter is less than two weeks away. Spend each intervening day enjoying this non-winter time.
* quoted from some Gatorade web post, about the by-products of exercise ha ha
** ioo: In Our Opinion… stickin with the non-specific pronoun
*** Admittedly, I might be mistaking my interpretation for that of other people reading this and be totally off-base****
**** …nah, this is the Wakefield Doctrine If you’re still reading, you can identify
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I did enjoy the scene to reflect on the behaviors of Clarks, Scotts, and Rogers.
Thank you.
Always instructive!
Love the re-prints! Serendipitously, the energy thing has been perplexing me lately so thanks for the pointers. Makes total sense.
A great way to look at the world. Phew, feeling better already.
Excellent… while the posts (in this blog) are numerous, they are not particularly well-indexed.
That said, with the Wakefield Doctrine available as (an additional) perspective on life, the world and the people who make it up, will, if not make more sense, be infinitely more entertaining.