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Midweeksday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 5, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

New Readers?

There’s this thing we’ve discovered about our Readership over the years that’s encouraging to most (Readers) and challenging to some. At least to the extent that this insight has been validated by all who come here and stay for any length of time.

Of all the Readers who come back here more than twice, most are either clarks or scotts with a significant secondary clarklike aspect or rogers … with a significant secondary clarklike aspect.

Sure, you’re thinking, ‘Well, duh. That pretty much includes all three personality types. Where’s the 411 in that?’

Hey, we have established that clarks consume ‘new’ like starved monkeys in a banana factory, right? The thing about insatiable appetites is theys always in a hurry. That’s why clarks do so poorly at tasks/jobs/hobbies/relationships that require a careful reading of concise and mandatory-for-success instructions. We* get it. We see the parts all in a box and such. Unfold the instructions. Read the first page, the top of the rest of the pages and then, if the pictures at all resemble what we have held in our minds since we started the assembly process… no! wait! make that ‘since we imagined having whatever it is that involves this task/job/hobbies/relationship’ then we’re all set.

Sure. Take all the time you need, New Readers** We’ll pause and, hell, why not lets stick a music vid here while you process the preceding paragraphs. (A little courtsey from your friends here at the Doctrine. Allows those for whom the thought is dawning, ‘Jeez that stuff in the other posts wasn’t, like for effect, where’s the door?’)

Lets what say we provide a little cognitive dissonance: the clarks (those whose predominant worldview is the of the Outsider) more often than not have greater difficulty getting anything useful from this little thought experiment than do the scott or roger (for each, the presence of a significant secondary clarklike aspect is totally sine qua non.) All that ‘Hurry up and lets get to the next thing that might have the Answer!’ don’cha know.

BEgin… NOw

Pencils down…

be sure to tune in*** tomorrow. that, being Thursday, you, New Readers, are invited to participate in the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Go ahead! Join in! Instructions are right there on the landing page. What you got to lose? (other than self-respect and the dream of being considered a legitimate writer, of course. lol)

The point of our post. The ‘takeaway’ is twofold: a) the presence of a secondary clarklike aspect cranks up the curiosity factor in scotts and rogers and 2) of the three, only clarks perceive out little personality theory as something not only interesting, but potentially useful.

* yes, we are a clark… we know you knew, but just wanted to crank up the ‘Annoy’ on the rogerian Readers and distract the scottian ones. Best of intentions, a course.

** totally grateful for your presence, yo. If for no other reason that our own fluency improves ever time we try to explain this here personality theory here to a stranger

*** ayiiee such a ‘How did so much time pass so quickly that this idiom is a frickin’ Rosetta-fricken-Stone for just about every one you’ll encounter today… (the polite ones will look slightly-unbored and say, “This ‘Dial’, you mean you watched ‘tele’ ‘Vision’ in the shower?!!’)

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Alsoday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 4, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

[ cont’d from yesterday and a few days previous(er) at the start of this series of Doctrine Posts for the new Reader ]

During this early phase we are grateful for Comments from the likes of Mimi and Cynthia, Denise and Nick. Most recently:

‘…I think I’d have to leave the Scott and Roger behind and turn down an alley.’ 😂

(a fragment of Cynthia’s Comment comprising significant insight into the three personality types, especially the scott and the clark)

Wanna hear a very practical insight into the Wakefield Doctrine, (in terms of how useful and fun this personality theory can be)? Well, do you?

Ask the following question:

‘How much is two plus two?’

If you have the luck of asking this of people who happen to be individually representative of the three predominant worldviews you will hear one form or another of these responses:

{laughter}, “Thats one of the things I like about you!”
“Four”
“In what context?”

Well this been fun.

oh yeah, New Readers? We haven’t forgotten you. About Cynthia’s Comment (Hey! First Homework Assignment!! Follow the link back to the post it appeared in and read it in it’s entirety. Jot down any Questions for her or the Doctrine).

two things first (Like a Primer or CliffNotes): one is about her and the other is about the Doctrine

1. Discussion of a person’s predominant worldview often constitutes the most enjoyable ways of learning our little personality theory. The why of it (another’s personality type) is the shortest path to fluency. New Readers? No one can tell you what your predominant worldview is, at least with an expectation that you accept it. This thing is all about being able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. The term ‘fluency’ is often heard in discussion among followers of the Wakefield Doctrine. C’s comment is a good example of this. She describes the situation, provides her impressions of the emotional, mental and actional* states of the people she encounters. Funny thing, being fluent, as Cynthia is, she is not giving us a list of behaviors by which we might try to decode the behavior (therefor the worldview) of the players in her story(ette). Instead, she picks the correct words that not only apply as accurate descriptions but have ‘the flavor of the thing’ as often witnessed when listening to a person translate something from a foreign language. The word ‘idiom’ comes to mind. We’ve all had the experience of hearing poor translation. Usually characterized by the use of overly-literal terms and phrases.
2. the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them. The practical goal of this here Doctrine here is that we become better able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. And, in doing so, way cut down on the stress of mal-communciation between two (or more) people.

ya know?

[to be cont’d]

* look it up**

** burn! got ya1 not a ‘real’ word

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 3, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Where were we?

(Wait! Don’t tell us! We got this one.)

oh yeah. Here.

What that was, and this (post) is, is all about writing posts for the New Reader. A visitor, perhaps link-following from our primary bloghops ( the TToT, the Six Sentence Story or the Unicorn Challenge), taking a moment to see what this ‘Wakefield Doctrine’ is all about.

The goal is twofold. a) to see how we would explain our little personality theory compared to how we did at various points over the last fourteen, fifteen years and 2) to re-capture the simple joy and exhilaration of those early years when everything was a topic for a post explaining the Doctrine and the provocative jostled with the careful-not-to-offend like two pre-adolescent boys trying to impress a girl despite not being able to explain their determination.

lets jump into the middle, shall we?*

The Wakefield Doctrine posits three personality types:

clarks (Outsiders)
scotts (Predators)
rogers (Herd Members)

so, do we think we can recapture the energy and spirit and such that produced Readers saying stuff like, “Wait! What did you just say about living life as the Outsider was like being a detective that had to solve a crime while preventing everyone else from know their identity and mission?”

Having an established, if not educated, Readership is far more intrusive, subversive and distractive that we realized. Huh. Interesting.**

New Readers are directed to ignore most, if not all, asterixeded sentences and such.

The three predominant worldviews are relationships. Better to say, they are the character of the relationship we, all of us, develop and maintain throughout life. (Note: while we are all born with the potential of three personality types, settle into one at a very early age.)

blah.. blah…blah

err, New Readers.

Lets start over.

A clark, a scott and roger stand on the sidewalk on the opposite side of the city street from a very popular restaurant. It is nearly noon and there is a line of people waiting outside the door. The scott is shouting and pointing at people in the line. At one point he walks across the busy street and talks to a woman who is three couples from the door. (From our vantage point we cannot make hear what he is saying, except when he laughs.) The woman laughs when the scott points back at his two lunch companions on the opposite sidewalk. But she also waves at them. Something from the middle if the line gets their attention, a frowning man, gesticulating to his own companions. The scott laughs and walks back to the obviously upset man who immediately gestures and motions with his hands, pointing at his expensive watch in the general direction of the people around him. The scott smiles. Leans as if to confide something to the man (and his immediate companions).

Back on the other side of the street, the clark watches and smiles. The roger watches, frowns and begins to cross the street but stops as a bus nearly hits him. When it passes, the scott is almost back to their side of the street. The three continue waiting. One is relieved, the other, impatient and the third makes a joke.

A little vignette to get the week started.

New Readers? Despite the genders of the characters in our little illustration, write this down: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is gender-neutral.

It is also culture and, even age, neutral. (This aspect, the age thing? Gets really facinating as it brings to the fore the effects and influences of the individual’s secondary and tertiary aspects. But that’s Introduction to the Wakefield Doctrine 103.)

*ok, right here is the first differences between the early days and the present. there was no ‘middle’ when we started. There was simply, (and this is an accurate, if not literal, description of the process of post writing) a new day and an empty (post) page. We’d sit down and see what showed up on the screen.¹

** no, sorry there is no prize, hat or otherwise for “I know the predominant worldview of the writer! Because of what they wrote in that line.”

Damn! For those following along, those non-New Readers, there is fundamental difference Numero Uno. We have a history now. There was no history against which we might write new and better ways to describe the Wakefield Doctrine.

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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine

June 2, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TT0T) bloghop

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pick: ‘The Reality Show‘ by Reena Saxena

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop “the kernel of the story: Tom’s fun noir, ‘The Night Before‘

6) Survey: To Mow or Meadow We’re thinking, hey, as long as the path is clear enough not to invite ticks to reach out of the tall grass and drag us off, then why not? Let us know your thoughts. (About the lawn. lol)

7) photation current flora

8) something, something

9) video

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Fryturday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 1, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Despite the approaching solstice leaching the need to create in dark, subjective lowlands, the atlas of three quarters of the Earth’s endless circle, we continue. If nothing else, out of caution that damming a river risks destroying it. wW offer the following to our third-favorite bloghop, the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, they insist on but one rule, i.e. the law of Word Limit. Fortunately, or not, the word limit for stories found in the week’s photo is two hundred and fifty.

This week’s travel poster:

“Is that a shoe?!!”

All the crafted schedules and subtle questionnaires, every sophisticated assessment of risk-for-addiction, every form of, ‘Do you have a problem with..’ was reduced to kindergarten finger-painted refrigerator-art, by the four word question.

A little context: professionals and well-meaning friends can be forgiven for failing in their efforts to understand. Seeking to help the person they thought I was, their sincere and, in some cases, skilled attempts, were doomed to failure, as I remained fluent in the language of Real People. They fell victim to the common error of mistaking the postman for the letter.

If there is a time of day when the Irrational rules, it is between, ‘Damn, the sun’s fuckin’ rising again’ and ‘hey buddy, you need some help?’ Now, as in countless previous mornings, the new day has forgiven the night’s excess, but not yet exacted a pledge to ‘try harder today’.

Sitting at true street level, the sight of one shoe in a gutter is not the sought-after therapeutic insight into a ruined life. The tone of the rhetorical question is.

Spun of the dross of a wasted life, the words hint at the shine and echo the tone of innocent delight of a child’s encounter with something brand new, and therefore, interesting. Possibly wonderful.

Paradoxically, while usually providing an all-too ineffectual understanding for the well-meaning helper, experiencing the gap produced by hearing the innocence of the question was often the seed of a Eureka moment for the individual.