Month: January 2022 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Friday postette -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 21, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Was the alternate choice of photos for yesterday’s Six Sentence Story.

Before we ‘head out into the world’ today. (lol… as sure an indicator of the speaker/writer being a clark as would be (their) answer to the question: Two plus Two equals?)…a quick word about our little personality theory. It’s as useful (and fun) as you chose it to be today. Sorta like that first date you were set up on by your best friends. It’s all in how you feel about it. Ya know?

Take the descriptions of the three predominant worldview and try and see the world as the other person is experiencing it today. When you do that, you will know, for the moment/in that particular situation, more about the other person than they know about themselfs. And…and! when practiced sufficiently well/often, you will enhance how you relate yourself to the world around you.

(Not a bad thing to do, when you think about it.)

(from January 21, 2011)

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

Lets talk.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a ‘theory of personality’ the same way that your grandmother or mother (or wife or husband) is a chef. What they can do is produce food that you and your family look forward to eating and of course, everyone enjoys and benefits from their efforts both as food and (as) a social occasion. Not only that, your husband or wife or boyfriend or grandmother uses most of the same tools and ingredients and equipment that Le Cordon Bleu chef will use. Both will work with food in a kitchen environment that is essentially the same and (all) produce meals that are good and good for you, the only difference:

your grandmother will never be on television, your mom will never write a book that will be found in bookstores, your wife or your husband will never have a meal named after them (on the menu of a restaurant).

Who is the better cook?

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

Do not think that we are apologizing for our grandmothers or our lack of empirical date (supporting this here theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, here). We are not. But just because the techniques and tricks and recipes of your “family chef” have certain limitations, does not preclude us from being determined to try and rise above the confines of the ‘novelty blog’ category with the Wakefield Doctrine. Point in fact, it is the goal of all involved with this blogsite to take what we have learned about human personality and behavior and, with no small amount of chutzpah, put it in front of as many people as possible. Our very immodest intent is quite simply to get people to see the world through the lens of our little Doctrine.

There is no “WHY?” question here. (The only possible answer would be, “Why not?”) To take that approach would have the fault of being un-necessarily modest. Our intent is, with all of the means available to us, presenting/promoting/publicising/pushing the Wakefield Doctrine in order to have some effect on the world, if only 30 or 40 people worth. Maybe more than that, (perhaps 300 or 400) people will read about this thing and find the same usefulness that we do and these people will benefit from having come to this blog and learned about our ‘theory or personality’.
But hey, everyone starts out as someone’s son/husband/brother/grandson/girlfriend/yeah,they used to live right down the street before they turned into a celebrity or an authority or a mover or a shaker (the Hollywood variety not the Pennsylvania type).
Take Martha Stewart (…”please”) she was someones mother at a point in time prior to becoming a valued NYSE listed commodity…might have been your mother, but probably not. She was Alexis’s mother

Be that as it may. Lets take a quick look at our “cookbook” so that our more credential-dependent Readers can continue to enjoy this blog and still get something useful from your visit today.

clarks: quiet but always manage to get noticed, introspective but aggressive, creative and intellectual yet capable of blindingly stupid stubbornness when they believe they have an understanding of the situation;
scotts: free-spirited extroverts who feed on the discomfort of others, natural leaders who inspire confidence and will spring into action regardless of how ill-conceived the action or ill-prepared for the unexpected they might be;
rogers: precise and exact and they would have invented OCD (if it had not already existed), sociable, likable and prone to extreme prejudice, with the right tools they will build the infrastructure of the civilized world just so they will have people to pass judgement on

Thats a pretty basic set of ‘recipes’ or down-home culinary technique, isn’t it?
Don’t you think your grandmom had fun teaching your mother to cook on cold winter evenings? The food at your house? doesn’t it taste as good as the food you could learn to prepare by spending 5 years in a culinary school? No? You think the chef, by virtue of all their formal training is better off? Well, here is a little look at their world

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 19, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host.

The prompt word is:

SHELTER

Now there’s a wall between us, somethin’ there’s been lost
I took too much for granted, I got my signals crossed
Just to think that it all began on an uneventful morn
Come in, she said
I’ll give ya shelter from the storm

Trapped somewhere behind the vinyl padded dashboard, Bob Dylan was singing in his trademark, pour guitare et voies nasales, style as the driver noticed the lack of recognizable landmarks. Like a sleeper awakening in a darkened room, there was a feeling of being disconnected from the familiar, non-conscious knowledge of ‘where’ and, for the final push into the abyss, ‘when’.

That the car was stopped at a red light in a small town, offered no solace, as any validation of competency was limited to the sight of familiar architectural styles and logical civic order; the street had sidewalks lined with stores with plate-glass windows and there were parking meters.

A glimmer of something was kindled by the parking meters, but the pleasure was short-lived, as the fact the parking places were, for the most part occupied, implying the middle of a weekday; hurrying behind this insight, a memory of it being morning when the trip had begun.

The open road had beckoned, a siren song of a secret route to a non-judgmental territory, invisible on all maps, save one, one drawn in gin and desperate hope; the trip started joyfully enough, emotional dyslexia rode shotgun, spreading a colorful atlas on the seat between them, the promise of a place where no one would care to know what the driver felt the need to hide.

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Real quick, couper et coller, post -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 19, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Was gonna ‘work on’ my Six this morning. Then thought to myself, I thought, “Come on, dude there are quite a few people out there today who were not hanging out here, back ten or eleven years ago. You know, people with lives. People whose names rhyme with Mimi.”

lol

So many fantastic colors, I feel in a wonderland.

July 26, 2010

Welcome to:

the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) a unique, effective and fun way to understand the behavior of those around us. Whether at home or at work or at play, the Wakefield Doctrineallows you to finally make sense of the actions and reactions of your friends and family! It will also give you the capability to predict (their) behavior in virtually any situation!

Pretty bold claims, no? No, (apparently not when compared to what else there is out there under the category “understanding people”).
I just did a quick search of the internet using understanding other people/behavior or others/human behavior…damn, there sure are a lot of awfully official and highly respected websites and blogs out there! Not only are they all very well credentiallated, but they have little pictures of the author, underneath which they let you know that you are dealing with a serious writer-thing…allow me to present some examples:

Smart, authentic insights for solo advisors, practice leaders and consulting firm leaders.

Your real edge is how you do what you do. Not your methodology but your humanology. Are you genuine? Do you really care about the results you’re creating? Are you likable (but not a sycophant)? Do you use humor effectively? Do you get clients the answers they need and help them feel good about working with you? Even when—especially when—you’re doing tough, game-changing work?

Readers of the Doctrine know that we are quite comfortable copy-pasting whole websites, photos, videos, pretty much anything we feel will help us write a Post. The above excerpt got me going, so I speed-surfed through a ton of blogs and sites when I came upon the following “About the Author”. There was something about the completeness of the bio that totally stopped me in my tracks. Here is what I read: (am not making this up!)

I’m a professor. It’s my second career. Before that I was an activist. I had lived for six years on The Farm, the world’s largest hippie commune. I co-founded 20/20 Vision a National environmental organization. I ran a foundation. I was director of Public Affairs at The Body Shop International. I consulted to green companies like Ben and Jerry’s. I developed water projects in Guatemala villages and earned a degree in Public Policy from U.C. Berkeley..Now I teach college-level psychology, economics, history, philosophy, marketing and sociology at Expression College for the Digital Arts. With Deacon and other collaborators I research and write academically about some of the greatest and grandest of mysteries, the origins of life, how hierarchies emerge (like from physics to chemistry to life to consciousness), the physical origins of purposive systems (about how mattering emerges from matter) the relationship between energy and information and the nature of information.

I have three children ages 28, 25, and 18. I play upright and electric bass (including 7 string) and sing in jazz, funk, soul, rock and folk bands. I kid around a lot. My students say I teach as though my hair were on fire. I love a good conversation. I’m pretty bad at small talk. I speed listen to audio books and prefer it to reading texts.

A few months ago I heard the only definition of spiritual that I’d subscribe to: An open channel between intellect and feeling, rationality and gut, taking theory to heart and heart to theory. Most academics don’t trust this approach. They think it distorts the theory and that detachment is better. I think it certainly can distort, so my main aim is to figure out how to create the open channel without distorting. I’m primarily interested in how to cultivate a sophisticated gut–wisdom–by means of more skillful and subtle critical thinking skills and methods.

Ask a question or send a topic. It could well turn into an article

Damn! No wonder we are not being contacted by major universities and/or multi-national corporations. Our “About” content so totally sub-par! Really need to spiff up the resume and maybe monetize a little and perhaps some sponsorship from a Consultants-R-Us blog. That might be the best path.

Wait a minute! Hold on now, there is something about the two clips above that is, somehow familiar…what the hell is it?…where have I seen… direct short sentences, but “…methodology…humanology…” there ain’t no such word! Hey! there’s a clark in there somewhere! Yeah, that’s it!
And the second one…what is it about those long, very impressive sentences…”I ran a foundation…I consulted Ben and Jerry…I developed Guatemalan villages…I teach everything to Harvard Deans…I sing in funk-soul-rock bands… isn’t that a lot of personal pronouns?…Wait a minute! …” roger!!! Come out of there! damn only “an-ascot wearing,-smoke-a-briar-pipe-while-holding-a-carved-Meerschaum-in-one-hand-with-the-other-resting-on-an-authentic- medieval-globe-all-while-listening-to-a-Miles Davis-interprets-Giuseppe-Scarlotti-album-(as played by Pat Methany)”, only that level roger could write an About Me like this.

We came “this” close to deleting the whole Post this morning as being either: “poor Wakefield Doctrine, we are not as famous as everyone else is” or “jeez all those other writers have better bios than we have”. And then the obvious became obvious enough…in the above examples you see a roger and a clark writing blogs without stopping to consider the implications and ramifications of their un-realized potential aspects stuff.
Hey, we do that kind of stuff everyday without breaking a sweat! (No example of a scott writing a blog, the scotts are on TV selling self-absorbing, free handdrill-powered sweat rags, which double as mascara applicators).

Better now.

Besides, if we were to re-write the About Section here at the Doctrine, there simply would not be enough room. What with DownSprings Joanne, MS AKH, glenn, Phyllis and DS#1 and, of course, we would not leave out Janie and Britney and Jimmie, and Mr. B. not to mention the Slovenians and Mel and Jason and Ronin and Pixieblonde and all three Progenitors . Damn, there really is not room for all of the “authors” to do a proper About the Author…unless…

“And the Above all are founding Members of the “Millard Fillmore Gregorian-Jazz Glee Club and FUnk Revival Band”.

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Monday Reprint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 17, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

You wanna hear one of the more interesting insights into the nature of reality for one of our three predominant worldviews?

…but! Before we do that, lets go old school and make some provocative claims and

When you learn the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine you will be in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves

Everyone works as hard at getting through the day as everyone else

Each and every person you encounter today is living the perfect life

…that was fun, right?

(Only problem would be from whatever defines the readership demographic today. One of the three, they be, ‘Yeah, what else is new?’, the other two: (laughing) “Alright!” (silence) “I don’t want to burst your bubble, but you’ve over-looked one thing…“)

Better yet, lets go way old school and bulletpoint them person-al-ity types:

clarks(the Outsider) distinguishing expression of relationship to reality: Upon awakening in the morning, (or dragging oneself back from reveries), the thought often is heard, “Well, no point holding off any longer, time to get back out there and deal with life.”
scotts(the Predator) distinguishing social strategy: If it moves chase it. If it holds it’s ground, challenge it. It it chases you, run. All in the name of the joy of living.
rogers(the Herd Member) distinguishing ambition: To discover within, (and practice without), the Right Way. Share this insight/gift/quality with all who are encountered, ignore any who do not acknowledge the benefit of being taught it.

so, you’re asking/laughing/sneering, ‘When you gonna lay ‘one of them more interesting insights’ on us?!

Here ya go:

clarks are afraid of nothing except the world around them and the people who make it up.

Thanks for coming by!

(Extra Points for any Reader what starts to mutter, “Wait just a minute! What about the Everything Rule?”)

(Double extra points for anyone thinking, “The title said ‘Reprint Monday’ and the last time I checked, today is Monday! I want my money back!”)

ok! ok! on with the Reprint

Hey! We stumbled across this short, little post from December 2013. We’re guessing, though the thing was written in December, it was an attempt at a tribute…homage… montage of the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King.

…and, as the cat would have it, today is Martin Luther King Day!

damn, you can’t make this stuff up.

(The absence of what would have followed this reference to the reprint is proof of efficacy of this here Doctrine here. At least in terms of clarks.)

(from December 2013)

hey!! dig this

the Wakefield Doctrine Manifesto

(i have a dream): that there is a place, a life where clarks are free to be assholes and not regret a single negative response from those around us, to live in a world where we are free to be boastful and self-promoting without fear of our heads swelling up or our face falling; a life in which we can act as we know we must without having to deal with a fear that a total stranger (who we will never, in fact, actually meet or talk to) might disapprove, (i have a dream) of forcing scotts to the ground because we think it’s funny and ignoring rogers in front of the herd because we can’t be bothered with their bullshit (i have a dream) of a personal reality where clarks can touch others in mind and spirit without needing to hide behind parenthesiseses or humor or obscuring words or phrases or stuff
(i have a dream) of a personal reality where we can live as a person who experiences the world of the Outsider, the reality of the Predator and the life of the Herd member in balance and without reservation

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 15, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Ten Things of Thankful (TToT)
n. a weekly collection of blogposts devoted, (for the nonce), to listing (and eliciting) the occasion of the state-of-being most often referred to as gratitude.

Us: imaginary writers in a virtual medium, denizens by choice, expressive by nature.

1) Una: a dog, (Chodský pes to be precise) my role model and, as the old saying* reminds us, “…animals are one of the few things that God got right.”

2) Phyllis co-alpha to Una. She, (Phyllis, not Una), was Bella’s alpha**

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) ** that Phyllis was alpha to Bella is no small matter and, by virtue of it being a very positive occurrence, earns a place in this list. (The BoSR/SBoR does reference the more specialized categories of gratitude e.g. vicarious gratitude.) Thing of it is, there is no way, at least that we are aware of, to get a puppy and say, “Welcome! That two-legged lifeform is your alpha, leader of the pack of which you are now a member.” It is something that the canine decides. I had the privilege of being alpha to Ola. Phyllis got to be Bella’s alpha pack member. Very cool.

5) Six Sentence Story Where the semicolons rule.

6) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) memory of cold days on a fishing boat, a way of putting the current cold spell in perspective. Most cool/memorable event? Fairly bad weather, waves breaking on the bow, turning to spray and the spray freezing in the air on its way to where we were working on deck. Like a horizontal hail storm. Stung like a dermatologist with fresh can of helium and a love-hate relationship with their patients.

8) something, something

9) …actually, the top photo? a bird flying into to it’s nest on top of the LP tank.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* well, it should be an old saying

** a very special relationship, like with one’s children, except there is no ‘You’re not the boss of me!’ or ‘But all my friends are going to the concert! I’ll be the only not…I hate you!’ or, even, ‘Can I borrow the car….and twenty dollars?’

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