Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
New Readers: hey, seeing how the year is just starting, here’s a collection of ProTips and…and! a useful RePrint.
- clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel
- the quickest way to identify a clark among scotts and rogers? Ask: How much is two plus two?
- you cannot get/do/use the Doctrine incorrectly. (Hint: your predominant worldview will shape your correct/incorrect efforts)
- a clark, a scott and a roger stand on a sidewalk, at noon, across from a popular restaurant; the immediate subjective state of each tells you everything you need to know about the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine
- the Doctrine is a tool: (for) better appreciating how the other person is experiencing the world
- (this) tool is for self-improving yourself, provided you have the need (ProTip Hint: although 2/3s of any group lack this particular need, your type is only about 13 percent of the general population)
- the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
Useful RePrint:
the Wakefield Doctrine: how to recognize the three personality types in the people around you
November 2, 2012
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory that is more a ‘way of looking at the world as the other person does’, thereby gaining useful insight into their damn personalities)
clarks: the Outsider. clarks can be difficult to notice, (but) easy to identify. They are everywhere, but have a form of protective coloration that is sort of like a messed up chameleon, always leaving some part of themselves ‘un-background-colorated’ (picture the lizard totally indistinguishable from the rock they are sitting on …with a bright blue head!) For today, try this:
- smile at everyone, the ones who respond with a ‘smile’ that consists of compressing the lips while (slightly) raising their eyebrows… clark
- if you are at work look for the person who is working (at a desk or a machine or waiting on a table), say ‘hello’ to everyone in a loud voice, the person you see who turns their head in your direction, but does not look up (or, god forbid responds with a ‘Hi!’) theres your clark
- the young woman in the impeccably tailored business attire, is that a tattoo?.. a hint of purple in the coif? hello, clark
scotts: don’t worry about finding them, they’ll find you! scotts are the ‘center of attention’ that never stops moving. The scottian female will be in charge, no matter where you are today. Better yet, think to yourself, “If I yell ‘Fire’ nearly everyone will start running away, the one who is coming towards me? That’ll be the scott”. (er…this is meant to be ‘figuratively speaking’, you know? of course, the scotts reading this Post on their smartphones, have already yelled, ‘Fire!!’) lol Instead, try this:
- smile at everyone, the person who smiles back but does not break eye contact first…scott
- at work,as you enter the office/work area, look for the person who is already looking back at you, getting up….and coming towards you! there’s your scott
- the guy behind the desk, when you start to complain about the service in the store, smiles and asks you to tell him every detail of the problem you are having…scott
rogers: sometimes mistaken for scotts, especially in an expertise-centric environment like work or school. rogersare very prominent in their domain and combined with their genius-level sociability, they will often come across as being scottian. The evidence of their rogerian personality lies in the personal-ness of their attention, they will get you to feel that they are hanging on your every word! Don’t worry about whether you will find rogers where you are1 …if you want them to identify themselves, try this:
- smile at everyone, the people that smile back but immediately look at one of the others in the room…roger!!
- if you are at work, the person with the most photos and diplomas and awards on their desk or in their work area… and those photos of family and friends? the person displaying them will be in every single one of the photos lol rogers!
- your doctor, the judge at the trial for your lawsuit, your accountant,the Chairwoman of your local PTA virtually anyone you think of as the ‘go to’ person when you have a problem with technology or ritual or social acceptance … rogers
Enjoy the day and let us know how you make out spotting the clarks and scotts and rogers in your life!1) current thinking holds that rogers account for 60% of the population22) except following times of war or other life threatening civil disruptions, being the bulk of the membership of armies and mobs, the herd is usually decimated, but their natural charm usually restores their ‘numbers’ pretty quickly, post-reconstructionistically speaking.
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About clarkscottroger
My youngest granddaughter is a Clark. No doubt. I’m still in Colombia (for another few days, then back home), and if you call her … Luisa? … she may or may not answer, and so you start looking for her … everywhere including in the pool, underwater, under the stairs where she’s made herself a house with chair cushions, in the bushes looking for insects and birds (my fault; oops, taught her to do that, and her mother isn’t happy), but when she found the boa constrictor in the middle of the road, and I shouted “snake!” and she reply, “Yes!” … I knew she was unflappable and most likely a Clark. Her brother, Nico, is a Scott. We sized each other up years ago, and we know the rules. Kids, I love them all.
good (home)work… watching the people in our lives, through the lens of the Doctrine can be fun and amusing but mostly it is good language practice… find situation of conflict (the good kind or the bad kind) and consider how the subject (of your Doctrine practice) might actually be experiencing a situation. Remember (and this dogs all of our efforts)… the easy part is: that was such a clarklike thing for them to do… the more difficult part (but far more productive) is to ask ‘How is what I think I’m seeing/hearing that person at the moment a mistranslation on my part.
Example: a roger’s personal reality is that of emotion, their language is of emotion… As a clark, I find it natural to simply translate the words I hear (a roger saying)… that is a translation error on my part. It starts with putting yourself (as best you can) in the shoes of the subject, in this case that of a roger… then try to communicate
fun
Q: is teamwork more apt to be prevalent in one more than the other?
good question… in fact, I may have to use it for the Monday post
Spoiler Alert: the Everything Rule, definition of ‘teamwork’ which, not to be obvious, but is laden with a possibly false positive value, courtesy of the more rogerian elements of society and and culture*. (The first impulse for most is to go to rogers as effective team players. Answer: organizational momentum covers a multitude of sins)
*the Wakefield Doctrine, besides being gender and age neutral is very much culture neutral
I’m almost tempted to put rogers and family in the same category, you can’t live with them and they’re not worth going to the penitentiary over.
lol. …well, in an interesting sense, what most of us think of as ‘family’ is a rather rogerian manifestation of a grouping… in fact, it might be a topic especially if you consider family vs friends there you will see the difference between rogers and clarks, respectively
ya know?
This made me splutter laughter at the breakfast table.