Month: February 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…Mimi and reinforcing insights into our little personality theory.”

February 28, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick, little, intro to today’s post. Friend of the Doctrine Mimi commented on yesterday’s post and, as she so often does, furthered a productive discussion of the Wakefield Doctrine.

she say: “And yet (Everything Rule), on Tuesdays i sleep in.”

(A prompt-worthy thought and ...and! a reference to the Everything Rule. The tv in the dayroom goes silent, attendants suddenly receive texts that must be answered, cell calls that cannot be ignored and/or irresistible urges to go to the mens/ladies room on the far-side of the secured door.)

Tuesday Morning: how the 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine respond to this ‘mildest of Weekdays’

October 2, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( three characteristic worldviews determine the 3 personality types: clarks, scotts and rogers )

Almost too easy. But we must be considerate of the New Reader! No telling how many people have arrived here at the Wakefield Doctrine this very Tuesday morning, driven by an insatiable curiosity, a little free-time at their computer at work/school or simply an annoying friend/co-worker (“...yeah, no! just go there! don’t try to read the About page, just read this Post! it’s about these people and these worldview things and…the thing of it is they are so right and I can’t stop seeing these scotts and clark and rogers…rogers!! do you have any idea how disturbing it is now whenever I drive past a bunch of guys riding bikes, wearing the kind of spandex that made Pat Benatar such a star… and just go there and let me know when you understand how any of this is going to be useful!“)

We all know that Tuesday is the day of the week that is most clarklike, right? The clue was right there in the Title, right? And by the associating of the word ‘mild’, you know have a spot-on assessment of the clarklike personality type, right?

Wrong.

Well, right about the ‘Tuesday is the most clark-friendly Day of the Week’, but t-wrong about the assessment of the clarklike personality type as being ‘mild’. Moderate?, fair… temperate?, sure, why not? even-tempered?, now you are straying… easy-to-get-along-with? getting colder… flat-affect, overly rational? ok…warmer… driven by a disconnected emotional aspect to find the way back home… yow! boiling !

Tuesday is the easiest-going Day of the Week. Rivalled only by Thursday on the lowered expectations scale, Tuesday is the day where you can believe in the promises of the work/school, even commit yourself to giving all to making the week a time of great accomplishment. Without the threat of an Exam (Friday) or even a pop quiz (Wednesday), Tuesday is the day where:

clarks relax

scotts wake up

rogers begin to get annoyed

If you were looking through the eyes of a clark…on a Tuesday morning…and the newspaper headlines read: ‘Meteor to Strike Earth on Friday, Extinction of all Life Certain!’ your reaction would be:

relief because the mess you made of your first serious relationship would finally stop bothering you (…hopefully)

excitement because now you don’t have to worry about having enough money to pay the mortgage

amused because you had a dream in which you felt loved and cherished by all and when you woke up you had a genuine emotional conviction that you were ‘a part of the family’

a sense of vindication because you knew that nothing really mattered

regret as you finally realized that people did not really care about how strange the inside of your head is, they only wanted to believe that you liked and appreciated them

Well, that was …interesting!

If the rogers and the scotts would form an orderly line (yeah, right) we will register each and every one of your objections to this Post.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 27, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Lets get ourselfs an old ‘Monday’ Doctrine post! After all, Monday is one of the rogerian days of the week (when they finally decide to talk to anyone*)

M. -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘sure, we all would like a hint how to use this Doctrine on the first day of the w. week’

January 5, 2015

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

Given that all you Readers are sitting in one of three worldviews as you read today’s Post, it’s only right that I make it clear which worldview I am talking about when I present a hint, isn’t it?

Well, actually no. It’s only right in the context of one of you. But that’s not important right now. Right at this moment, most of you Readers are at the start of your Monday, so on with the Doctrine hints:

clarks will be the ones most likely to get up early, followed by rogers and, (yeah, maybe a little surprising)…scotts are the last to rise and shine

clarks will be remarkably (and suspiciously) optimistic and talkative

rogers will not

scotts (who are still in bed) will begin to see that getting the other person back into bed is the best approach for everyone involved ( by ‘everyone’ we mean, of course, the scott)

clarks will look forward to the day the way that a person with a horrible toothache will look forward to going to the dentist

rogers will look forward to their day…in detail with no need to share or express their concerns for the upcoming day

scotts will still be in bed

clarks sometimes feel anxiety about ‘the start of the day’ not necessarily the events that they anticipate happening, but rather, the point at which forward momentum begins

rogers will become more animated and energetic, but unless the other person is also in the same line of work, this brightening view of the coming day will remain inside their heads

scotts will (finally) get going… the least amount of preparation for the day of the three (consistent with their roles in the work day)

clarks and breakfast? what, are you insane?!?!

rogers and breakfast? well, we always have (fill in the blank precisely, please)

scotts and breakfast? yeah sure… come on! lets get going!!

That accounts for ‘our’ morning. I have every intention of returning to this here Post here at noon today and provide us with a look at the tipping point of the first day of the work week. Unless you have a coment.

* who said that? You are absolutely correct! rogers are very, not, morning people. ~~Care to guess who is? No, this a closed answer book quiz. You’ll know which question you answered correctly and which incorrectly.~~

Genuine lol here, Readers! only on my last ‘edit’ did I realize that, in my choice of reprint, I made my challenge moot.

This happens more often that one might think. Or, perhaps not. Mostly fun in writing fiction. I’ve seen it in my own efforts when, further into a story, longer than Six Sentence stories, a connection or interconnection that I was not consciously aware of setting up. This is kinda that…fun.

New Readers? what they (the quizzirini) do with the information on their test answers and test scores will: a) tell you everything about which of the three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) they are and 2) which are morning, not morning and what-the$^*&^ time is it. Are they clarks(Outsiders) or scotts(Predators) or rogers(Herd Members)?

to that you may submit your answers as you are inclined.

the reprint?

oh yeah… just getting in the academic aspect of the three worldviews. Remind us to make that the topic tomorrow. (ed. nah. think we covered that in the reprint. We repeat: lol)

Have novel day.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 25, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Established in 1990 by a once-removed, second niece of Jack Lewis (ambiguation here).

In any event, each and every week a group of talented writers, gifted bloggers and persistent word-hurlers, (such as ourselfs), write and link to the TToT posts on the topic of gratitude, i.e gratitude observed, experienced, remembered or anticipated, they’re all engaging insights to a most human of experiences. And it’s a fun and, with a certain perspective, beneficial exercise.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) messed up weather (an immediate personal grat, a way-serious global hypograt)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop (like a ten cent box of Junior Mints at the movies that none of your friends saw you buy)

6) way multi-talented Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia, has a post on the facebook this morning that demonstrates how some of what you see in these pages often serves as an illustration of the degree of un-earned good fortune in the people we get to know.

7) hey! wanna hear something strange? (…we’ll wait while our host Dyanne gets her breath, if not stop laughing entirely ). ok

Look at that food material. For some reason, while in the early phase of recovering from my cold, I developed an appetite for paleo-personal-historic foodstuffs. The first (in photo) of our embracing, purely for recuperative purpose, a Breakfasts-that-Time-Forgot. Used to love them Big Breakfasts from McDonalds, back in the before-time. So imagine our surprise when the thought occurred to me, ‘You know what would be good this morning?’

There are a number of things we are proud of here at the Doctrine. Not the least of which, and arguably a essential quality for anyone hoping to get the most fun and benefit from our little personality theory, is the willingness to entertain silly ideas. That and the odd self-confidence to treat intuition as the Sixth Sense (or seven or whatever, depending on what you read). So we ate the breakfast of McMagog’s and the next thing you know, the thought of a frozen salisbury dinner is whispering like a slot machine on an old Twighlight Zone. Any way, feeling better. As certain friends might say, ‘If it works, don’t fix it.’

8) something. somethings

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (We used to offer a starter Grat if there was a Reader wanting to joining but was not comfortable coming up with Ten (Things of Thankful). If that’s your situation, let us know and we’ll totally fix you up. That is will post your Grat here at #9. Will as much attribution as you would like.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules

music and such

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

February 23, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted each week by Denise, the rules are simple, the stories are always a surprise.

The prompt word:

WRAP

“Sorry man, the correct pronunciation is ‘Deeej and Skinner’ (Number 10 Savile Row);” a tear in the mass of facial hair grew upwards at an angle, non-verbal assertion of an error also once shared, as the Gatekeeper sat back in his chair behind the Sophomore, opposite the bar that ran along the right-hand wall of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro.

At that moment, the tall, thin man walked out of the dark of the hallway at the far end of the bar, pulling at the lapels of his suit-coat and staring, in unselfconscious awe, at how the crease in his trousers never broke in a way that might diminish the perfect fit of his new suit; looking back to the man following him, yellow cloth tape measure, a master tailor’s tzitzit, the Proprietor applauded quietly, ‘Your taste is impeccable, your craftsmanship without peer and I thank you and your staff for yet another masterpiece of clothing.’

The Sophomore lit a cigarette and wrapped(sic) on the scarred-wood table top, “Dude, I think I get why a bespoke suit costs as much as my second car.”

Continuing along the bar towards the exit, the Proprietor passed the Sophomore when an arm appeared at chest level from the bar side of the aisle holding a nylon rake with an adjustable handle and a dustpan, (with an equally adjustable handle), “Shar, besides being the day of delivery of your new suit,” Mimi turned, on her barstool to smile at the man, now holding the two utensils, “Today is the start of your week as clean-up at Café dog park.”

The tall, thin man turned enough to lock eyes with the woman in the floral print dress, with complimentary black freshwater pearl necklace; their shared expression was that of two staring down at a recently recovered manuscript; after a pause, she smiled and he nodded with the single word acknowledgement, “Sensei” and continued towards the door.

“Young time traveler dude, as Mimi has so eloquently reminded me, while the material things of the world are as beautiful as money can buy, the responsibilities to one’s chosen family is a gift beyond price; to the dog park that we might re-find a Path with Heart!”

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Wednezdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 22, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick little post. Gots to try and come up with something for a Six Sentence Story by this evening. Though most of us post on Thursday, its alway fun when it can be linked in at Denise’s on Wednesday. Like finishing your term paper on Saturday afternoon rather than Sunday evening.

…but a couple of things. We sorta started talking about the Everything Rule in yesterday’s post. The rule was, in the magical way of the Doctrine, a response to an insufficiency in my presentation of the Wakefield Doctrine in the early days. New Readers easily got the idea that all of us are born with the potential to experience life and the world in three characteristic ways i.e. as Outsider(clarks), Predators(scotts) and Herd Members(rogers). And, as most of our time was spent describing each of these three personal realities, we didn’t think through any weaknesses (in our description).

As more people came and read, questions arose. Which was, like, totally, ‘How cool is this Doctrine thing?’ lol Anyway. While we did address the point that there is only one predominant worldview for any and all of us, as people started to apply the principles to their worlds, a fuzziness manifested. While we were always reminding Readers that the reality of one’s personal reality was quite…. real, it was easy to succumb to a certain Balkanization of the three predominant worldviews. Hence the reference, in yesterday’s post to people talking about behavior and qualities and traits and occupations as being exclusive to one of the three personality types.

The Everything Rule doesn’t say, ‘No, its not true that only scotts do a certain thing or rogers maintain a certain belief or clarks are always found in such-and-such occupation’. Rather is reinforces the idea of the reality of personal reality, suggesting we consider how a thing, (a job, a saying, an organization, whatever), manifests in these three different predominant worldviews. Being a carpenter, for example, is available to all three. Obviously. For a scott, what is referred to as rough carpentry/framing is often exhibited, while to a roger, (in a reality of rules and precision), carpentry often exhibits as what is referred to as ‘finish carpentry’. Both quite real and essential, one different from the other.

…clarks?, oh yeah. Well maybe walking around and talking to people about stuff, dabbling in fast food, boating and meteorology. Like that, ya know? (lol)

I mentioned ‘magical’ earlier in the post. Quite true if you knew how much of what is written about the Wakefield Doctrine ‘showed up’ as the typing progressed.

(Mimi commented yesterday to the effect that ‘Every post i haven’t read yet clears things a little more...’

am trying to find a post I haven’t read yet. More difficult that I would’ve thought, but here, one semi-random search … lets use the search term ‘forgotten’

Mimi! Dude! cha ching!

Full Disclosure: got like three pages of posts, started reading oldest first. Hit the one below, cause (given my current recovering from a cold), two words: Damn!

‘…of opposites and differences’ the Wakefield Doctrine “and his hair was perfect!”

July 7, 2014

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

…beginner Readers? you might want to skip this Post. It’s not that you wouldn’t understand today’s Post, (you would, if you are willing to trust your instinct enough and not worry about getting ‘the right answer’ and just go with what you think), it’s just that today we speak of aging and degrading, running down and getting old, losing teeth and growing fat, you know, the fun topics.

Two Questions (that are really three):

what happens when we get old or sick or injured or messed up…(way up)

which of ‘the other two’ is the hardest to ‘imitate’

This being the Wakefield Doctrine, naturally we will address the second question first. Lets use real, clarklikelinear thinking and say, of the three, where are the polar opposites? lol…yeah! clarks are capable of making that statement and, …and! thinking that it is reasonable to talk about polar opposites when dealing with a group of three. Bring on the damn Venn Diagrams!! god! I loves me a good Venn Diagram!

Alright, here, try these Polar Opposites on for size:

clark and roger

scott and clark

roger and scott

so, what we’re saying here is that the above represents the most difficult, (the) nearly impossible one to imitate/act like for each of the three personality types. (i.e. it is most difficult for a clark to appreciate the worldview of a roger, it is damn near anathema for a scott to be comfortable in the personal reality of a clark and, for a roger to live as a scott, well, lets just say they would rather do anything else than to to embrace the scottian worldview. Clear?

Great! While you’re in this Doctrine mode of thinking* lets run at the first Question (which is building off the first Answer) and say: if each of the three personality types decay, degrade, get chronically stressed out…grow old in a bad way**, then they will appear to those around them to be sliding into the worldview of:

clark (appears to be acting like a) scott

scott sounds increasingly like a roger

roger somehow, it’s really weird, but for all the world appears to be thinking like a clark

Makes sense, right? the lion (you know, scotts!!) loses too many teeth, the scar tissue from countless successful battles takes it’s toll, they will (tend to) become rogerian. clarks…growing old without developing their self-assurance first, will become scottian…aggressiveness let loose only because they can’t remember why they should care about what others think and rogers… they seem to have to the best (of all three worldviews), forgotten and left alone, they will dive into their memories, shedding the need to show the world the desirability of learning the Right Way to do Things and become content with appreciating the knowledge of the world around them.

There ya go! When you’re out there this week, shopping for groceries, trying to hold on to your job, studying hard, thinking about the future, regretting the recent past, hoping to be happy, fearing being alone, taking the kids to swimming lessons and hating how you look in a bathing suit, working hard and praying that this time it will turn out different, being afraid of being satisfied, being satisfied with not wanting more and thinking/acting/feeling like one of us, remember: we all live in a reality that is personal to us and it corresponds to the world of the Outsider(clarks), the life of the Predator(scotts) and the world of the Herd Member(rogers) but, we all have within, the potential to see the world as ‘the other two’ are experiencing it.

* meaning… this is fun! don’t worry about it being ‘true’ in every single situation, don’t be concerned if it is logically consistent, science is art if you are creative enough in your approach

** go easy on the application of the ‘bad’… and the ‘grow old’ thing? instead think of the person you know is one type but seems to morph at times into another. better yet, consider the person you know who acts like they’re doing a bad imitation (of one of the three personality types)