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

The earliest August 1st post, from 2010

(We’d do a brief review of Doctrine highlights that were discussed in the course of the weekend, but you’ve already read them. …wait, one from Saturday, to a clark in the very early stages of contagion: “Be careful if you decide to tell your rogerian friend/spouse/co-worker about this thing of ours. Under no circumstance tell them when there are more than the two of you in the room. Further, even if you’re alone with the roger in question, do not exhibit too much un-alloyed enthusiasm. Under no circumstance open with, “There’s this personality thing, it incredibly cool and insightful and true about everyone!”)

(Follow-up to previous secret advice. You’ve succeeded in describing the Doctrine to your friend. Being a clark you’re already extrapolating the principles and seeing things in a whole new, totally fun way. Of course you suspect your friend of being a roger. If you get too ‘ain’t this fun?’ expect to have them return and say, “Sorry, I studied that blog and read all the principles and I get it. It’s pretty interesting. The only problem is that it doesn’t work. I’m either a fourth type, combination of the three and something else or I’m one of the three sometimes and the other two other times.“)

(Smile to your rogerian friend and know that there are clarks out there who you might carefully encounter and eventually, with luck, aim in the direction of this thing. They’ll take it from there. And, for being an Outsider, that will be kinda make all this well worth the effort .)

Reprint 2010

you would think this would get easier, but nooo

August 1, 2010

‘ello.
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
If you are new to our site, the “About” is probably the best place to start.  If you are still reading after that, you possess the qualities that mean you will no doubt enjoy the Posts.  There is no “order” to the Posts other than chronological and mood swings, but you would get that pretty much right away.  The Archives pull-down is a useful way to get a sense of what we are trying to do here.
And don’t ignore the “Pages” in the Table of Contents!  These are parts of the blog that have not received much attention from us in a while, were originaly intended to be the ‘reference resource’ for the whole thing, but all the effort seems to have gone into these Posts.  Whatever.  The information, in the form of definition and examples of the three types of personality, is all to be found in the Pages.  Includes pictures of clarks, scotts and rogers.The Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, fun and productive way to look at the behavior of others, with this “Doctrine” or “theory” you will finally understand why the people in your life behave the way that they do. (This pre-supposes that you do not know why they behave the way that they do and, further, pre-pre-supposes that you feel the need to understand why they behave the way that they do.) All of the stuff in the parentheses here, if applicable, makes you a clark.  If you neither care about understanding or just skimmed over this whole section, then you are a rogeror a scott “respectively”.Otherwise, the people who come here to read, appear to like the videos (music and otherwise) and also enjoy reading about the lives of the students at Millard Fillmore High.  You will also see reference to those we call, Friends of the Doctrine, blog writers extraordinaires.
Finally, there will be Comments, following interesting Posts that offer insight into the Doctrine as well as offering helpful perspectives on the whole thing.
Sometimes.(We also try to do a Lesson of the Day which is an illustration or application of the Doctrine that helps the Reader see the clarks, scotts and rogers in their own lives.)Well then, that should bring you up to speed.  The rest you will catch on to long before you get bored and leave.
Hat!  Damn!  Almost forgot to tell you about the hats (for your damn head).  We have Wakefield Doctrine hats (see the Fashion Center ) they are wonderful and (sometimes) we just give them away.  Most of the DownSprings have hats (for their damn heads) as do most Friends of the Doctrine.  I recommend you write a Comment and ask for one.  We probably would mail one to you for almost no cost.*

So read, listen and watch the videos and write us a Comment.  Most likely we will print the Comment.

This being Sunday (in our location, not necessarily our Marshall Island friends…) Let’s close with some Sunday music…as regular Readers know, we huge fans of modern gospel in general and Fred Hammond in particular…

Oh, yeah!  Lesson of the Day…damn near forgot…not so much a lesson as a Test. (alright a Quiz)… (if you insist, a quizlet…but a tough question)…

You just watched Fred…is Fred a clark, scott or roger?  Tell us and  you must support your answer…(you could guess and 1/3 of the time you would be right…sort of ….) but you must give your reason, support your answer…this is ‘open book’, so go look at a bunch of Fred vids…the answer is there.

The reward for a correct answer? A hat (for your damn head) of course!  But seeing that this is such a tough question, this little contestlet is open to Progenitors and DownSprings…

 

* there is a cost…did you really think it would be totally free? jeez what are you, a frickin clark?…anyway the “cost” of the “free” hats (for your “damn” heads) is that when you receive said hat you must take a photo of the hat in front of an identifiable landmark; proof of the hat being in whatever part of the world it was mailed to…(for the clarks)…a head underneath said hat is totally optional. We really only care about where in the world the hat is…the supporting “human”, not so much.

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