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

Full Disclosure: As we continue to leverage established assets, (aka posting re-runs*), the criteria involved in selection, shift from day-to-day. Today the criteria was ‘catchy subtitle’.  We usually don’t include them in the paste half of ‘cut ‘n paste’ because the font is always off and most of the time, not worth the trouble to try and re-size. We’ll make the semi-exception today, at least to the extent of typing it out:

“I think Tuesday is the cutest (of the) Workdays! …like a 2nd date, so full of promise, yet such a potential source of suffering!”

The other thing about re-runs is that, for us, it’s fun to watch the writing style change over the years. We’ll leave it at that. (ok, ok, We’re referring to certain periods of time here at the Doctrine when the smart-ass quotient was higher than others). This is not just fun, it’s a healthy reminder to not take oneself too seriously and, even more so, to always keep moving… to experiment, to shrug off the comfort of the not-getting-anyone-upset approach.

One of the two most valuable insights or understandings or alternative standards, the Wakefield Doctrine has provided clarks is: “Well, were I to do that and everyone got mad at me, I guess I’d just have to get another set of everyone.”

(Readers of the scottian and rogerian predominant worldviews: your first response to this observation will be a useful insight into the intensity of your secondary clarklike aspect. Healthy levels will result in a scott laughing, ‘You fricken’ clarks!’ and the roger smiling, ‘OK, with a coat of paint and a healthy buffing, that might not be the worst way to feel about the world‘.)

(From 2014)

so, yesterday we wrote a Post that was built on the following promise:

So here’s what we’ll do: I’ll write a couple of hundred words about the value and use of the Wakefield Doctrine on a typical Monday morning. I’ll stop writing, take a quick shower, get dressed and start my work day². After an hour or so of work, I’ll come back here and ‘re-write’ this post. Let’s see if this ‘oh-my-god-can’t-you-see-how-incredibly-useful-and-fun’ theory of personality accounts for any change in my day.³

Fine. I’ll tell you about my day and the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine. I won’t attempt to re-write yesterday’s Post, for the obvious reasons. (Actually all I want to do is try and come up with something clever (and a touch risqué ) about character of Tuesday). But promises are promises (unless they are threats, and then you need to be more careful of clarks than scotts or rogers by a long shot!)

In the middle of the day yesterday, I had occasion to interact with people I had never met.*
I walk up to the front door, (noting that a person was coming towards the house from across the yard), and knocked on the door. a scott answered. I knew she was a scott from: a) her eyes** and 2) she smiled and stepped forward at the moment of introduction,  ‘Hello, I’m clark from….’  ( I laughed to myself and thought, ‘god! I loves this Doctrine’ …and increased the volume of my voice, shortened my sentences and cranked-up my (level) of eye contact.) The meeting went well.
The person I noticed walking across the lawn towards us? (who I ignored because I needed to establish a relationship with the dominant personality)  another scott! (he was there to help with the move…) he had no legitimate role in the interaction,  but he kept coming back into the room where I was talking to the scottian woman.  lol ( you ever watch a bunch of puppies playing as a group? one is always trying to establish ranking***  that’s what this guy was doing. He walked in to the house, didn’t introduce himself by name, (because he was a member of her pack and therefore not alpha), but nevertheless was trying to see if he could establish dominant ranking on me  (it would have enhanced his relationship with her, of course).  I mean you could see the energy as he walked, pretended to be a part of the conversation, walk away and then come back in…. I did not allow myself to be distracted… it was fun to watch.

Anyway…. that was my Day-with-the Doctrine.

Tuesdays… your favorite Day of the Workweek?

 

* it was a meeting with transitioning tenants, I was there to make sure everything was being left as it should (by the parties leaving), not necessarily an adversarial interaction, but the potential was there, as I was representing the interests of the owner of the property and the people I was dealing with were representing their own…

** new Readers?  not such an impressive deduction… a primary identifier of the scottian personality type is in the eyes, ‘the gaze’ to be more succinct  (read more on the Page on scotts… suffice to say, ‘a scott is never not paying attention to what’s going on around them’)

*** another primary characteristic behavior of people who live in the world of the Predator… the drive to ranking, trying for dominance, but not attaching importance to being the alpha, as much as it is necessary to know where one stands… the pack social order

* Hey, are there still ‘such a thing’ as re-runs? That term, for us, at any rate, are from the olden days of TV**

** timus velociraetus  Latin: That was how long ago?!!?