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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 7, 2026 By 7 Comments

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This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful(TToT) bloghop. An exercise in the appreciation of the positive elements of daily life, each week participants link their own list of ten things (in their lifes) that have elicited and otherwise inspired the all-too-rare (speaking only for ourselfs, of course) state of gratitude. As with any exercise, repetition enhances the capacity to continue. With the state. Of Gratitude.

ya know?

Following is our list.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) meltage: temperatures above freezing!

6) random photo (well, yeah, even though it’s old and all, ain’t no statue of limitations on grats.)

7) the tech to make ‘all this’ (lol quantity people, not quality) possible

8) something, something

9) continuing (relatively) good health and/or physical condition (chipping ice and such, don’cha know)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…end of work-week wrap-up”

March 6, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

Well, that was fun! (This week’s installment in the Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, that is.) Plus we had Comments from FoTD, Cynthia and Misky, Mimi and Denise.

So… Friday, huh?

note the date. After reading the Post, we looked above the Welcome to.. and thought, damn… in the ’20s.  Then, like an apologetic childhood monster from fever dreams (back when/at an age getting your temperature was so not as easy as today),the sound of multiplication tables moved up the 1:00 am hallway, (which, at his point in the dream by virtue of the malign manipulation of time, space and fear had become at least 100 yards long to the closest non-threatening bedroom)… Math sez, it sez, “I hate to be the one to tell you this (“My god!! Math is a roger!!!)… but that was Six Years (carry the zero) Ago.”

Well, we will work on this week’s TToT and peek around the corner of this Friday.

Damn! Fridays used to mean something. It had a Power, like a benign despot, promising things it had no right to convey, yet as a citizen of the world of ‘what will be will be’… we accepted it. In return for a sense of …. the world making sense.

I repeat, Damn! No wonder we find time travel such a productive vehicle when creating fiction.

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2020

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There’s an old saying, “Fridays are the Monday-mornings of living a full and satisfying life.”

Why the love-hate relationship between clarks and the most looked-forward-to day of the workweek?

Consider that your homework.

New Readers! While our subscriptioneers get busy organizing their notes, and make sure they have enough yellow-highlights, clear-plastic rulers, No.2 pencils and, to be ready to take the assignment-completion-process up to the next level, a supply of three-by-five index cards; (Of course, there’s a cork board and little colored pins!), lets go for a quick tour of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine starts out with three different (yet intricately interrelated) predominant worldviews. ‘Predominant worldview’ is the preferred term denoting personal reality writ large. While scraping the guardrails in terms of a distinction between what an individual’s subjective reality is and the proposition that the whole, yeah, everything, world that is considered ‘reality’, knowing the differences between the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine are essential to deriving the benefits of this unique, fun and quite useful perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.*

We’re born with the possibility of having one, (of three), predominant worldviews being established (the the ‘other two’ becoming secondary), and thereby being our ‘reality’. It (the predominant worldview) shapes, influences and serves as the context in which we develop the tools and strategies that shape our subsequent relationship with life …and such.

The three are:

  1. the reality of the Outsider(clarks)
  2. the world of the Predator(scotts)
  3. the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

If discussed in terms of personality types, the above are the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. For the Doctrine, personality type is not an assignment or a categorization based on a how many of a number of predetermined characteristics, traits or inclinations an individual demonstrates. Personality type is, for the Wakefield Doctrine, a description of how a person relates themselves to the world around them.

Learn the characteristics of the three, ask the question: “How is this person/how am I relating themselves/myself to the world around?”

The cool and fun part is the accuracy of the descriptions of the three ways to relate to the world.

There’s a bunch more to learn, but…. today is Friday. So have fun on the weekend.

 

 

* total, long-running, and favorite play-on-words here at the Doctrine… (and a totally obtuse reference to the ideas on reality as Carlos Castaneda so elegantly presented in his writings, i.e. reality is perception and the players contribute to the script, to mix as many metaphors and rhetorical devices as possible… ya know?)

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 4, 2026 By 2 Comments

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…so a clark, a scott and roger walk into a popular restaurant a little before 11:45 one Wednesday afternoon

(thanks to Misky for today’s post thesis (ish))

Damn, we’ve been writing this blog for so long now that the above phrase might qualify as a trope. At least for those tens of Readers who have visited this blog over the last thirty-five hundred posts.

In fact, given the lateness of this writing, we will search for a RePrint that addresses this manifestation of the three predominant worldviews and their distinctly different experience in a common situation.

…hold on

ok… well, kinda

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “… of development, writers clubs and understanding the world around us.”

July 23, 2018

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Do we outgrow the past or do we simply forget? Do the improvements, growth and developments we achieve (through effort, ambition and circumstance) become like, well, the way it is.

We admit to a fondness for the occasional peculiar word or phrases that, although uncommon in everyday conversation, are fun. Today (in light of the opening sentences) the fun word/phrase/expression is raison d‘être. (which our friends at wikipedia define as  “…a French expression commonly used in English, meaning “reason for being” or “reason to be”.”)

The Wakefield Doctrine is the reason for the existence of this blog. All, and only, because it hit me one night that it would be good to ‘formalize’ my personal system for explaining the world and the people in it.

The Wakefield Doctrine holds that we are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world as one of three characteristic realities. At an early age we ‘pick’ one of these three ‘worldviews’ and we are on our way to becoming clarks, scotts or rogers. The Wakefield Doctrine, as a personality ‘theory’, is not concerned with how you would describe yourself, the results of questionnaires created to identify traits and interests or even what you think that girl is doing sitting out there in the middle of the field looking back towards the house filled with people she may or may not be related to (well, sometimes we enjoy the traditional approaches; I mean, damn! give yourself away in one description much, clark? lol). Unlike other tools developed by psychology, sociology and phrenology, tools easily transposed to popular media such as ‘the Face Book’ where they lie, attractively packaged, club-shaped mirrors waiting for someone to notice, “Oh, honey! Come here! I found this personality test in my magazine and it so has you down to a T! Lets take it together. You first.”

Central to the hypothesis of the Wakefield Doctrine is the notion that we all live in a reality that is, to a certain degree, personal. Nothing weird, mystical or magical. Simply that if you and I are standing in front of the entrance to, say, a very popular restaurant, our experience of that moment will not be identical. The Doctrine takes this and jumps up above the individual and says, ‘Suppose the world was one in which individuals are separated from each other in a way not easily discernible or, better still, imagine that the life we wake up into after each sleep is that of the Predator, simple and direct, eat or be eaten; or suppose everything in the world is knowable and, to a degree established in a way that allows for complete agreement among like-minded people, that the universe is, in fact, definable and quantifiable.’

This is key to understanding the Doctrine. Children (you, me and the girl behind the counter asking if that’ll be Regular or Premium) all grow and develop (their) personalities in order to successfully interact with the environment that surrounds them. Social, physical, the whole thing. And this is done in the context of the nature and character of the world, as they experience it. These strategies evolve and develop into the style we refer to as our ‘personality type’.

I grew up in the world of the Outsider (clark). I developed a way of relating to the people and the world around me that permits me to stay out of the limelight (can’t have people pointing at me and telling everyone that we don’t belong) while at the same time giving me the tools and the drive to search for whatever it was that I didn’t learn when I was too young to realize it i.e. how to be a real person.

A friend of mine grew up in the reality of the Predator (scott). She’s a lot of fun to be around, gets more done in a morning than most people do in a week. She is always on alert, never is not paying attention to whats going on around her and everyone likes her…except for the ones who are terrified of her. Temperament is often un-fairly pronounced with the accent entirely on the first syllable… we prefer the word: mercurial. You want something done right away, you ask her and step out-of-the-way.

If you want that thing done right… you find my friend who grew up in the life of the Herd Member (roger). He will know how to do it so that the joints line up, the glue doesn’t stick out at the ends and it stays the way it’s supposed to be… forever. He knows the simple fact of the life that there’s a Right Way.  No, nothing as an alternative, no second-runner-up. One way. Fortunately, my friend has so many other people around him that grew up knowing that they all belong. Sure there’s minor disagreements over decor, but it’s all one big hap…. Herd. The world is good. Just have to understand.

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Teisdat -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 3, 2026 By 3 Comments

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Thank god for Friends of the Doctrine!

In yesterday’s Post we mentioned Cynthia, (a leading Doctrine scholar), and one of her comments had Post Theme written all over it’s own bad self.

to wit:

Hmm. You taking up piano, Clark? Is that a clark-like instrument, because I am re-learning to play. Haha. I remember Roger saying he plays the guitar. Is that a more rogerian instrument? And something LOUD would be perfect for the Scotts. My brother in law is learning the fiddle. If he were younger, I’d bet my money on drums or…trombones

New Readers! It is entirely acceptable to me asking yourself… ‘What does she mean?’

Well, be patient! She is talking about the Wakefield Doctrine and, as you should know by now, is: an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. And…and! rather than a bunch of silly letters (Oscar Myers, we’re looking at you) or semi-embarrassing made up stuff (Latency Period, really Sigmund? you’re gonna go with the hand-the-adolescent-boys-a-freebie?), we have the very simple standard: How does the person relate themselves to the world? There are three personality types in the Wakefield Doctrine:

  • clarks (the Outsider)
  • scotts (the Predator)
  • rogers (the Herd Member)

fine.

Our correspondent Cynthia’s Comment is raising the issue of which musical instrument is most in simpatico with which personality type?1

…damn! out of time! tune in tomorrow for the conclusion of out lecture: ‘Music Performance and What the Heck is She Doing?!?!’

*interesting footnote: the story is (from a video of Joe Walsh talking about starting out) that one of his first instruments was ….the trombone!  Hey! Good illustration of a scott. Now the host of the show, Daryl Hall? (we’re thinking clark, possible roger)

 1  of course, she does not mean that only one type is attracted to or otherwise drawn to one particular instrument. The Everything Rule allows that ‘everyone does everything. at one time or another‘. And so, while guitar, (in particular lead guitar), is a very effective choice in manifesting how a scott relates themselfs to the world, clarks can be effective with it as well, e.g. Jeff Beck. The key value of the Everything Rule is to remind us consider what an individual, in their handling of an instrument, tell us about how they relate to the world.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 2, 2026 By 9 Comments

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sorry about the missed Doctrine post last Monday (and an unsteady beginning to the Week of Snow).

As we all know, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, (with an option on Friday), are days we write about the Wakefield Doctrine. Thursday, (with an option on Friday), are for our stories in the Six Sentence Story format.

We are very fortunate to have Readers who are also students of the Wakefield Doctrine. And their Comments, invaluable inspiration for these ‘What is this Doctrine’ type post, are very appreciated.

This week we have a Comment from Mimi that effectively jumpstarts our first Doctrine post of the week. Misky, Denise and Cynthia are among the others who we count on to express their reactions, responses, interpretations and general feedback,

So, last Friday, in a Comment on a Doctrine post (sub)titled: ‘Leftovers, Binyons‘ Mimi, she be sayin

Assuming you know what others are thinking is natural when almost all you do is think!

Yes. And what this observation does is serve to remind us that, by virtue of the fact that everyone exists in one of three personal realities, it would behoove us to not assume the other person is experiencing the given situation the same as do we.

Continuing with this thought* it is evident, by our own correspondent’s admission to being a clark1 she could accept the idea that the other person might (mostly likely) be a scott or a roger.

So, back to the original Post, Amy would do well, upon realization that she was dealing with either a scott or a roger, to set aside her expectations for being understood and, instead make an effort to translate what the other person is saying, in the language-mode of their predominant worldview.

Lots of opportunity to reduce stress (for clarks), enhance one’s enjoyment of the moment (for scotts) and feel more confident (as a roger always seeks to do).

That should get us started on the week.

Remember: do not assume, despite being in a direct interaction…in the same damn room! that the other person is having the same experience as you.

Program Notes: No, there are not three alien worlds competing for our attention. There is the common world of everyday reality. It is only on a small, but still significant lever that we experience the world as a clark or a scott or a roger.

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  1. clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

 

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