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M2 -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 30, 2023 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to Doug’s new bloghop: The M of M. Click here and join the fun.

The prompt, this week is:

AUSTRALIA

‘Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.‘

Stepping back from the chalkboard, white mist descending to the floor in subtle, if not un-appreciated irony, Professor Macnamara turned towards the empty auditorium. A single red light glowed from the camera, placed as the professor’s vanity insisted, in the center and middle of the half-moon of empty seats. Red ‘Exit’ lights beamed their advisory to no one, save the woman on the stage.

“Can anyone tell the class why Ernst Haeckel’s observation is useful to the current threat to mankind?”

Walking towards the sterile cloth-draped banquet table, the reign of monochrome was briefly overthrown as she was bathed in the video prism of a computer-screen full of half-profile thumbnails of her students.

“Yes, Yvette?”

‘It suggests that a novel virus may contain the solution to its eradication in any subsequent mutations.”

“Very good.” A light flickered impatiently around one of the thumbnails; seeing no other request to be heard, Jean reluctantly clicked the ‘Unmute’ on Pierre Hanga-Raruraru.

“But didn’t that strategy prove ineffective in Australia?”

The computer display dimmed as the ‘Class Ending in Three Minutes’ message scrolled over the grid of remote med students.

“Sorry, we’re out of time. Please remember, end of term projects are due next week, upload as ahead of the deadline as possible. The new Quarantine Protocols forbid any attempts to deliver them in person.”

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 29, 2023 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly participation in the Ten Things of Thankful(TTOT) bloghop. Founded in 1934, it is among the longest continually published grat blogs.

The premise is simple. Execution, sadly is, like much of life, once the rounded landscape of childhood is left behind, more complicated.

1) Phyllis (with the remote, stage left, getting Una’s favorite Sunday morning show on)

2) Una (appreciating excellent dirt moving)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) work. Well, actually, the grat in this case is the experience of seeing the benefit of the time spent writing these weekly posts. I have a new client. Institutional clients, such as this one, places an emphasis on paperwork and documentation. Fine, am used to, familiar-with, dare-I-say, possessed of a certain skill level in such work. As I was finishing the first phase, involving a set of steps I’ve completed countless times over the years, I stopped, ‘Just to be on the safe side, what-say we read the email instructions. (In our defense, there is a commonality among clients in this type of work, the forms look basically the same, the online platform used very the same). So I read. Then I re-read* Son of a gun! While as familiar as expected there was a new wrinkle buried in the the instructions.

Bullet dodged. And the thought came, ‘Hey! That there’s a Grat Item fer sure!’ And so this Item. (Good example, too, of the fundamental approach to change, self-improvement etc. Practice noticing successful instances of the desired new behavior, strategy.

6) Hypo Grat: whether it is impatience, a false confidence in distinguishing between habit and procedure or plain old laziness, we have come to the conclusion that the old saw** about ‘Measure twice, cut once’ is as valuable in matters of the mind as in affairs dé carpentré.

7) thanks out to Nick for the inspirationing music vids (from the black in his Six)

8) something, something

9) Kristi for remembering to remind us to link-back our TToTs (Seeing how we’re into a later posting than previously the habit)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (From the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules)

* See Grat Six ‘Hypo Grat’

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Sybil Trainor Six]

January 27, 2023 By

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host and places only one requirement on us: the story is to be exactly six sentences in length.

In the past few weeks we hear more and more about the personal history of one Sybil Trainor. This week is no exception. We are privileged to witness her escape from a childhood in the Midwest to her first year at an Ivy League school. Should be interesting.

The prompt word:

MESS

Consigning the campus security guard to her review mirror, reduced to a mime performance of ‘WTF?!’ Sybil Trainor drove, half-lawn half sidewalk, down one edge of the Radcliffe Quad towards a five-story brick building that would be home for her freshman year. Spotting a fire-lane to the right rear corner of the building, she parked, grabbed the single piece of luggage in the backseat and, leaving car keys swinging from the ignition and the doors unlocked, walked back up the alley to the grassy central Quad.

“Really more of a lozenge than a pentacle, don’t you think?” Sybil directed her critique of the tradition-bound landscaping to a girl just ahead who was doing a passable imitation of one of those improbably-overloaded handcarts in photos of commerce in port cities in southeast Asia, except with battered luggage and a twenty-five-dollar hair cut.

“I’m here to welcome you, the Class of Two Thousand-whatever, to Radcliffe; as your Orientation guy, if you’re familiar with the history of our institution, I’m kinda the coed in the crowd,” several exchange students swapped giggles as the young man, standing above the group at the main entrance to the dormitory, managed to leer and laugh at the same time, “My room is a mess but the door is always open in case you need something I can provide.”

He was less than six feet tall, barefoot with a can of Diet Coke in one hand and a Radio Shack loud-hailer in the other; catching Sybil’s attention, he dropped the bullhorn, threw his soda in a nearby bush as he jumped from the granite porch and, with a sweeping flourish of his Red Sox baseball cap, bowed in front of her, “So, do you believe in love at first sight or love after first fight, don’t answer, I like surprises.”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

January 26, 2023 By

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host and places only one requirement on us: the story is to be exactly six sentences in length.

The prompt word:

MESS

“Clean this mess up else we’ll all end up in jail.”

“What? Did you think we Proprietors don’t enjoy listening to oldies?”

The tall, thin man tipped himself from a half-recline against the main bar in the Six Sentence Café & Bistro and, holding his phone with two hands, finger-tutted the volume down from: ‘You might want to make an appointment with your otologist’ to ‘oh, so you were trying to speak to me’.

The Sophomore stood, right hand on a sun-warped stack of out-of-date copies of ‘The Watchtower’ covering half of the top of the cigarette machine in the vestibule: leaning cautiously into the eternal evening of the Bistro, “No, man, I was just surprised to find myself here, for a second there, hearing Fagan’s voice, wasn’t sure where,” drawing closer to the man at the bar, amended, “when I was, ya know?”

“Too well, young exile, all too well,” the Proprietor, more formally dressed than normal, rotated on the bar stool a non-verbal welcome and invitation to sit, “The coast is clear for the moment, but then I don’t need to tell you, the river of time is available to all and controllable by none.”

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Re-Print Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 24, 2023 By

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

Increasing frequency of writing. A good thing. (What appears counter-intuitive, at least at a surface level.)

Whatever.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. We are, all of us, born with the potential to relate ourselves to the world in three ways:

  1. as an Outsider(clark)
  2. as the Predator(scotts)
  3. as a Member of a Herd(rogers)

At an early age we settle into one, (and only one), relationship and begin to learn, be taught, practice and develop ways to survive and live, get by and thrive, in the world as we experience it. While this is only one of three ways of relating ourselves, we retain the potential to see the world as ‘the other two’ might experience it. This is the second benefit of learning the principles of this here personality theory here.

Read what you find interesting among the posts. Indulge your clarklike secondary aspect and enjoy the fun of ‘what if’.

With practice and reflection, study and …practice, you will enhance your ability to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. And you will begin to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world. (Warning: Once you see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, you may stop being able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.)

That said, by appreciating the unique cost (and benefit) of how you relate yourself to the world around you, you’ll also be in a position to see  how the other person is experiencing, putting you in a position to know more about them than they know about themselves.

Pro Tip: Recommended technique for determining the personality type of the people around you? With a solid understanding of the primary behaviors associated with the Outsider(clarks) Predator(scotts) and Herd Members(rogers) and the subject in sight, throw out the ‘no fricken way!’ of the three. Then, (and this is both the most difficult and rewarding aspect of this thing of ours), imagine how they’re experiencing what’s going on from one (of the two remaining) perspectives. Then, from the remaining perspective. Just like your last trip to the optimist for your eye test: does the world make more sense from the perspective of (clark*scott*roger)? or (click) from the perspective of (clark*scott*roger). Repeat. Eventually one view will stand out as the ‘clearest’ the most sensible. That’s the person’s predominant worldview (aka personality type)

 

Hats and Understanding: the 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine

July 6, 2011

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

For whatever reasons we are getting a lot of new Readers and Visitors in the last couple of weeks, so lets review the basic principles of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine, also known as the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is a useful, unique and fun way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. Everyone reading this has had at least one moment that they thought, “now why on earth would they go and act like that? I really thought I knew them better.”
Whether a spouse or a friend, a co-worker or a fellow student, there will always be someone in our lives whose behavior makes us wish we could ‘see inside their head’.   And as everyone reading this knows, there is a near endless supply of books and blogs and DVDs that promises to provide you with  ‘guides to understanding your spouse’, “do you really understand your lover?’ and ‘theories of personality and self-improvement’.

The Wakefield Doctrine is not quite any of those things. In fact, the Wakefield Doctrine is not like anything you have encountered before in your search for understanding others. And make no mistake about it, you have been searching for a way to better understand the people in your life, whether you are consciously aware of it or not.  This is true because everyone wants to be happy and even if you think that simply knowing:

  • what to say to that girl you are too shy to talk to, or
  • learning how to make your husband stop talking for 5 minutes or
  • trying to prepare yourself for a successful Job Interview

what you think/hope/know you need to learn is: how to understand another person.

Well, good news! The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, a method, an approach…a theory that will let you ‘get inside the head of the other person’.  And the best part? It can be understood by almost everyone and can be effectively used (by almost everyone) real damn quick. All that it takes is a little flexible intelligence. What we mean by this is that while you do have to be pretty bright, the critical quality you need is to be willing to believe something   ‘just because’.
Ready?

The Wakefield Doctrine says that we all see the world in a certain context;  not just that you have likes and dislikes, or interests and attitudes, but that the world for you has (some) very basic rules.  Further, (the Wakefield Doctrine says) we all are born with the potential to see the world in one of three characteristic ways ( the context,we just mentioned). At an early age we (somehow) decide on one of three worldviews and we become clarks or scotts or rogers. These are the 3 personality types mentioned in the title.
But they are not really personality types though, are they?  (All the other personality theories) talk about interests and drives and attitudes, they give you tests to see what you are most like, what pattern you resemble, where you fit in their matrix.
The Doctrine is different. We say, ‘Hey! you are a clark or a scott or a roger. We know what the world looks like from inside your head. How about that!’

Sound like fun? Well, it is.  And it is useful.  You will know why the other person acts the way that they do and, as frickin huge bonus, you will know why it is you act the way that you do! If you want, you can learn to do things that were never even close to being possible, all because of the understanding that the Wakefield Doctrine offers.

OK, ok enough! This was supposed to be a brief  Summer Post! But just to make your introduction to the Wakefield Doctrine fun and enjoyable, look over at the Table of Contents, there are Pages listed that talk about each of the three personality types, how to identify them, that sort of thing. And these Posts, they are sort of  ‘a conversation’ about the Doctrine; read them in order or at random, should not really matter.

Final Tip: you have all three ‘personality types’ within you. You are predominately one, but the other two are alwaysthere. So if you read this blog, at some point you will say to yourself, ‘What the hell? Sometimes I am a roger, but then there are times when I must be what they call a scott!‘

Final, final Tip: this theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is gender and culture neutral. (If you need that explained to you then you probably need to wait (for one of us) to write ‘the Wakefield Doctrine For Dummies’.

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