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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 25, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Struggling to get started this morning. Quick search through archives…nah.

Recognized the twinge of guilt at using old content rather than typing new. Guilt is the preferred perfume/’after-shave’ of the Outsider, in no small part because we think it’s legitimate use is to divert attention from our-true-selfs and to abracadabra the impression everyone else has of us.

Funny thing, when we tend to wander about, writingistically-speaking, you know, like when you’re stumped on a multi-choice test question and, seeking reassurance in a fact/information of rather admittedly impeachable pedigree-opiniom, resort to counting how many times you’ve selected ‘D’ (None of the Above).

That said, the thing about clarks is, the above test strategy notwithstanding, we’re kinda immune to test anxiety.

Which ties in with Mimi’s Comment on yesterday’s post:

“Simple if not always easy.”

spoken like a: clark/scott/roger

lol

no! wait… just remembered how much we enjoyed being provocative in the early days of this blog and…

‘a scott alone in a room, isn’t’ (and) ‘clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid and rogers are dumb’ and, about applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to your own life, ‘It’s fun and you can’t get it wrong.’

so, in the spirit of ‘hey, it’s not so much what you do or say, it’s how you relate yourself to the world around us and the people wbo make it up’, lets add a new(ish) one:

“clarks make the hard things easy and the easy things hard’

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 24, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Here’s one of the simplest descriptions of the three predominant worldview (‘personality types’) of the Wakefield Doctrine:

clarks think, scotts act (and) rogers feel

Here’s one of the simplest overviews of the application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine:

The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral.

Finally,

Here’s one of the simplest test-to-elicit-self-identification (vis-à-vis) as a clark (or) a scott (or) a roger:

How Much is Two plus Two?

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 22, 2025 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 (TToT) bloghop. Comprised of ten people, places, things (and) events that have inspired, generated, elicited and otherwise caused us to experience the state, (as ephemeral as it might be), of gratitude. As this is, by all accounts, personal and third-hand, a positive activity, we encourage all within sight (and sound) of our words to stop in, read, comment and all the other reasons you might have for spending time in the virtual world.

And, if the lists that you encounter here at the TToT resonate or otherwise cause you to think, “Ha! I’ve felt like that!” or “Man, them too??!” or, even, “Jeez Louise!! Those Doctrine people… wait, they’re the current host!?!?! No way. Heck, I could write to that level, just have to remember back to junior high!”

For those of us in the curator’s office at the Wakefield Doctrine, the following list of grats:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge:

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop:

6) the forecast of temperature today is partly-cloudy with a chance of above-freezing temperature

7) work (real estate) allowing us to see (and photograph some interesting properties) see Grat #8

8) technology… simple pocket camera (while not on par with, say, Kristi or Misky’s excellent use of photos in TToT) some of our other co-hostinae (Dyanne, Mimi, Denise, Lisa) might say, Hey! Where have a seen a sink like that before!! lol

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: psychology of personality, relationships, self-development, the Wakefield Doctrine

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 19, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

As promised to Friend-of-the-Doctrine, Nick, here is the story of an insight into a predominant worldview, well beyond simple extrapolation of common characteristics offered by the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Discovery of Referential Authority.

While a great deal can be inferred about the subjective experience, (of Life, the world and you know, reality), by our description of each of the three predominant worldviews, there is only a certain depth, ordinarily speaking, to which we can descend, to wit:

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

beyond this level we rely on the willingness (and ability) of people of each group to report out, well, basically, “So, what’s it like being a ….

We can live with that, ’cause when it comes to know about the other person, the Wakefield Doctrine, is on a certain level, without peer. We mean, well, damn! Does your Myers, Briggs and Stratton system afford you an understanding of a person sufficient to: offer insight in a roger’s heart by suggesting you agree with them (even if only for the moment) or that it is usually a bad idea to get into a Truth or Dare game with a scott or, recommend that in a public forum, it might not be such a good idea to ask a clark to come up to the front of the room and answer all your questions (well, and expecting a good outcome).

running out of time

compressed version:

We once wrote a scenario, a fictional restaurant in which a job applicant shows up in the middle of the noon/lunch rush for an interview. Told by the over-worked manager that they would have to wait, the applicant stood by the coatrack at the entrance and watched the organized chaos of a successful restaurant. We then proposed to Readers three actions available to the interviewee and one of these was: seeing how the staff was overwhelmed and people were starting to leave the line for a lack of seating as some tables were still full of dishes, the applicant should take it upon themselves to clear (‘bus’ in the terminology of the restaurant biz) tables, the kitchen area being accessible and open for such a purpose.

The response was amazing. as in, wth?! People were writing comments: ‘They can’t do that!!’ “No way the applicant should get hired” and “How dare they take it upon themselves to interfere like that?!!”

(Have we mentioned how the existence of the Wakefield Doctrine is rife with examples of serendipity, aka luck, gift? Well, yeah. guess we have, first example being the Eureka Moment that started it all.)

…in any event, we realized that not only were virtually all the comments expressing outrage, most of it was coming from rogers. But it was the intensity of their emotional response that remarkable. Even to a clark! (lol)

We realized that rogers (the Herd Members) have within their world a concept we termed: Referential Authority, This is evidenced whenever a roger wishes to exert (uninvited) power on others. “That’s the way we’ve alway done it,” an “It’s SOP. I didn’t make it up, its in the manual (which) Everyone here (at this workplaces) calls it the Bible” and … and “I bring you, not my thoughts and ideas, but the Word.”

Like that.

and the cool thing? This insight is way farther into the reality of the Herd Member than any clark or scott might infer from the everyday descriptions of the relationship between rogers (or clarks or scotts) with the world around them and the people who make it up.

New Readers: Read the easily accessible descriptions of the three personality types until you got ’em cold. Then, we’ll totally bet you’ll be able to extrapolate new descriptions of the three personal realities of the Wakefield Doctrine,

Fun!

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of strange Lands and foreign tongues.”

February 18, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

As promised yesterday / ‘the last time’ /’no you didn’t but, ok what’ve you got today’ we will now tackle the fascinating subject of translation as a process and fluency¹ as a goal.

But first:

New Readers: You should know by now that the Wakefield Doctrine proposes three ‘personality types’ (preferred term: predominant worldviews). The Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) and the Herd Member (rogers). Each are defined (and distinguished) by the character of the relationship between the person and the world. This relationship results in a personal reality unique to how the individual relates themselfs to the world around them and the people who make it up. Further, each way of relating to the world, not surprisingly, results in a different language. And the language is, in turn, informed by the nature of these three realities. Hey! quick, down-and-dirty definition: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. Pretty simple, isn’t it? cool

So whats the deal with learning the language of the Wakefield Doctrine?, as Denise commented yesterday, “Translation requires fluency. Fluency implies learning how situations manifest in all three personal realities.”

Lets provide an example from the ‘real’ world.

We were in our office one day, several years ago. (ok, clarks? in the back row? you can stop with the wavy-fingers, hands up and down, the other Readers are quite capable of taking a suggestion of a flashback. thank you very much.) lol

One this particular day, all the news was about an approaching hurricane. In this part of the world they are not rare, can be dangerous and, with a certain degree of preparation, survivable. As a clark, we tend to view the hype and hoopla with some distaste, you know, unseemly. As the curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, however, our attention was totally hijacked by what we heard, passing the desk of a rogerian agent, speaking to his client,

“Are you ready for the big storm?’

We looked at the agent. We kept walking. We returned to our office and pondered what we saw as we heard the words of the agent. ‘Are you ready for the big storm’. Were it merely a caption scroll at the bottom of the screen it would be understood as being a well-meaning inquiry as to the other’s state of preparation. An alert, if you will, to the danger of such storms.

What we saw? Very different.

What we saw on the face of the roger speaking changed what we heard. It, (the facial expression), was one of celebration. Camaraderie. Almost joy.

damn!

And then, it struck us. This was a roger. Not so much speaking a different, foregn language, comprised of sounds that were odd and words that, clearly conveying information, correlated with nothing in our lexicon. We, as clarks, in this situation are first and foremost concerned with conveying news and information. The better to aid the person (on the other end of the call) and assist in assuring well-being.

Not fricken’ celebrating.

Then our fluency, (in the language of the Wakefield Doctrine), kicked in. rogers live in a world of emotion. the most important element of their world is ‘the Herd’ which not only is a symbol of their belonging, their being a part of, it is a manifestation of the Way. To say ‘you are part of the Herd’ is so fundamental as to be in the category of the old, parchment comic superhero saying ‘I am that I am‘

But that’s not important now. What is important, the goal of today’s post, is to suggest to any serious Reader of the Wakefield Doctrine that there are three languages of reality. And, while we speak one as a native, it behooves us to learn the language of the other two.

Why?

Because one of the Mission Statements of the Doctrine, (never written in caps and all in the Reader’s face ’cause…clark here) is, nevertheless, to learn to be better able to ‘see the world as the other person is experiencing it.’ (italics importanto)

1) wikipedia suggests the following definition

aigght. running out of time. we can continue with this topic provided there is sufficient interest. which is, going forward, a show of more than two hands.