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Monday-RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 22, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

In keeping with recent conversations focused on the possibility that we have not been ‘keeping up’ with the changing demographics of Readers here, lets look for a really old post. Having written it, (we wrote all but a few guest posts), we’ll post it with notes on meaning. Then, we’ll wait for Readers to Comment, ‘Dude, we knew that!’ or ‘What the heck, you never told us that!’

…sorry, this is not such the basic, very early ‘this is the Wakefield Doctrine post’ but, everyone these days be sayin’ ‘video! only medium for the message, no matter what that message might be!’

From one of my roadtrips. (Rule of Roadtrips: when returning from a business trip, find someplace cool that, with judicious travel planning, can be visited while still getting home on the same day as a direct return.)

self-development, 3 personality types and the Wakefield Doctrine (oh yeah, damn almost forgot! Video Friiidaay!!!)

September 16, 2011

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

There will come a time, in the not too distant future, when people you know, will come up and say, “hey! I just heard about this Doctrine thing, and it’s supposed to be about personality types, but they have these hats and this guy travels around the world and takes these really strange videos and talks about rogers and clarks and scotts! Those are the names they have for 3 personality types…yeah…I know….but it’s true! they have pictures and charts and stuff and when I looked around at people here at school or at my job, there they were! Anyway, they said this Doctrine will help me change anything about myself that I want…and it’s true….”

…and that will be very cool, but you are here now and you are watching this thing of ours, and I am including you in the use of the word ‘ours’. With a Wakefield Doctrine hat (on your damn head) and a little patience you will be a part of the growth of the Doctrine. Of course, writing a Comment wouldn’t hurt either!
As we all know, to be a ‘personality theory/self-improvement tool’ ya gotta provide proof that it works! Alright, then take a look at these here videos here:*

Then on to the other Crossroads:**

…Tell me quick where I can get rid of these things!***

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* look at the geocoding of the location…damn Highway 61
** look up the legend of Robert Johnson and the Crossroads
*** ten bonus points on any future exam for knowing the name of the song these words are from without google

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 21, 2023 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.

Publlished continuously since 2001, the TToT is one of only three bloghops still listed on Interpol’s ‘Must Read’ posting (of seditious and ‘oh-they-can’t-be-serious) blogposts. Read while you still can! Freedom to write is secured by the persistence of those willing to stay up late (or get up early) and put their secret souls and less-than-back-from-the-cleaners laundry out before the world.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) semi-progress on the cottage patio project. Final choice to be made in pavers and, with any luck, work can begin soon(ish).

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia joined the ranks of Sixarians this week; writing a story; she will, we know, return with more adventures; we did, in appreciation, offered her a free subscription to: Semicolon Quarterly (The use and joyful abuse of second-rank punctuation; and others applications.) She, respectfully, refused to comment; semicolonolgy is a cruel mistress; relentless taskmaster and thrives on ambition and an excess of words.

7) the Zombie Christmas Project Chapter Nine: “O quam cito transit gloria mundi“* .

8) something, something

9) shout out to Nick and Mimi in their ~~synergistic~~… ~~synchronis~~… one of those cool Greco-Latin words ending in -istic** for their comments this week regarding the photo of the three progenitors. The served to remind us that not only does Time pass more rapidly than we realize, but the world around us*** changes. To wit: while the photo has been used from the beginning, a time during which direct knowledge of these three people was common among those frequenting this blog, time has totally slipped past us and, with it, the awareness that contemporary Readers might not recognize them nor their significance to this blog.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* this form of the phrase appeared in Thomas à Kempis‘s 1418 work The Imitation of Christ: “O quam cito transit gloria mundi” (“How quickly the glory of the world passes away”).

** which we all learned in school is the a total ‘Be On Exam’ sigil

*** the personal reality that we experience as defined in these pages, ex cathedra of the Wakefield Doctrine

music vids

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 18, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by Denise the rule: Six Sentences max, some form of the prompt word min.

Prompt Word:

FLUSH

“That, gentlemen,” a glance to his left, “and lady, is what they call a straight flush; read ’em and weep.”

Even as the other players at the no-limit game registered the fact his chair was as empty as the center of the table, the Sophomore, intent on cashing out his winnings, found his way blocked.

“Hey cowboy, care to invest your money in a drink with a lady?”

The double French doors that made the poker room both refuge and trap were open and clear, except for the woman currently standing under a shower of smoke-streaked light pouring down from the flush-mounted LED in the ceiling, “I guarantee you’ll be happy with the return on your investment.”

“Hey, lady, I’m flush but not insane; by all means, take my seat in the game,” the sequins of her dress began to exhibit a secret coordination, not so much intelligence as Will, the message increasingly persuasive.

The young man with the old eyes knew his chances of leaving were eroding, even as a flush rose up to show in his face; pride in his rational mind, that, while always seeking dominance, had packed its bags and left a note: ‘The king is not the castle‘.

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Cynthia Centence Cstory -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 17, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Something a little different.

Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia, who makes the Tasmanian Devil look like Eeyore when it comes to variety of skills and productivity in the world wide web. Naturally, we constantly saying/inveigling/inviting and, at times, pester her to write a Six Sentence Story.

Imagine our surprise when, in a Comment from her over the weekend, we’re like, “Mercy’s Sakes alive, that there is a Six Sentence Story! We asked our friend if she didn’t mind our posting the post on her behalf (Latin: loco parenthetical), and she be all, ‘Yes’.

This week’s Prompt Word:

FLUSH

The pink bathroom built in 1945 held many interesting stories and voices from over the years. Inside the mirror all the razors from a father passed, and past, told of shenanigans of yesteryear. As we started to renovate, we took care to preserve the echoes of those Who Came Before- even if it was all in ugly hues of pepto pink and milk chocolate brown. I added my own touches, intent upon stamping my own legacy, too. I added whites and greens to the palette of pinks and browns, in an array of complementary and natural colors. The last thing to change was the toilet: it was too big for its spot and each flush seemingly sprayed invisible droplets all over the tiny space; after the re-do, everything came together: past and present, including the ghosts of pink bathrooms past.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 15, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Not enough time this morning*

Here’s yer RePrint. Don’t say the Wakefield Doctrine never gave you anything,…

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘enough about the weekend! there’s a work-week coming at us like a runaway train!’

November 9, 2015

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

Good weekend. Got Chapter 4 of Blogdominion finished and published. Cynthia called in on Saturday Night. Wrote a TToT Post and washed the kitchen floor. Not bad as weekends go.

What might this have to do with the Wakefield Doctrine? To be more direct, ‘what does the above ‘list’ of weekend activities have to do with your reading, understanding, applying and enjoying the benefits of our little personality theory?’ Everything and nothing.

But, as Fritz Perls would tell us, lets start with a demand!*

…. ok! you’re back!

(running out of time!) so, the thing about not being cynical and such? …my reference to the poster that sold so many copies and the poster that would not sell that many copies, provides an illustration of what we mean by ‘personal reality,’ here at the Doctrine. We all, everyone of us, go through the day in a reality that is, to a certain degree, personal.

Example: you could have told the owner of the “…it’s beautiful” poster about the part of the quote that was left out, and it most likely would not have changed her feeling towards having the poster on her dorm room wall, (but doing so would, most likely, have changed your odds… unless you were a scott, in which case, if you were still there 2 minutes after your revelation (about the poster) your chances would, like, totally improved… but, if you were a scott, none of this would be going through your mind at the time, because…well, because you’re a scottand as the Wakefield Doctrine tells us, ‘scotts act‘ (and) ‘clarks think… rogers feel‘

Where the hell was I? personal reality! so these three worldviews that are at the center of the Wakefield Doctrine? personal realities, each and every one of them. and…real.

You want to know one of the cool differences between the Wakefield Doctrine and all those popular mainstream personality type systems? (yeah, besides the mountains of empirical data, documentation and clear writing style… thanks for reminding us, roger)… it’s this: imagine that you grew up in a world in which you were, somehow, an alien, an oddity…. they love you and care for you as part of the family, they even ignore the fact that you’re so different and pretend that you’re part of the family and not an Outsider. Well, you’re just learning to deal with the world (you’re 2 or 3 or 5 years old) and, no different from your brothers and sisters and classmates at the pre-early-child-daycare, you’re developing ways to get through your day, learning to deal with the world.

….you live in a world in which you’re the Outsider. Your strategies and style of interaction, i.e. your personality type is geared towards that kind of world, that reality.
You grow up to be a clark, (i.e. you mumble because you don’t want to be noticed, but you will not tolerate being ignored… you stay on the fringes of any group, but manage to be closest to whoever is the alpha, in case you need power… and you learn things, everything and anything, because you believe, (beyond doubt), that the reason the people in your life are accepting of each other is that they know something that you do not know)
…the same for the child finding herself in the world of Predator and Prey and the child who wakes up a Herd Member.

they’re all developing the perfectly appropriate social skills to get through life ‘in the world as they are experiencing it’ clark(Outsider), scott(Predator) and roger(Herd Member)

… that should get us started for the upcoming week!

*ha ha… old grad school joke. Well, not really a ‘grad school joke,’ as much as it’s a joke playing off a quote attributed to our favorite scottian pioneer in the field of modern psychology, Fritz Perls **

** Fritz is also responsible for one of the most enduringly hopeful sayings ever to grace a college coed’s dorm room wall… right next to the ‘hang in there, baby’ poster and just above the desk with the straw-wrapped bottles of rose (one with a candle stuck in the top, an offering to the god of sophomore romance) and one un-opened (in case the gods deign to answer aforementioned offering) and 2 macramé belts, which were the second things the current occupant purchased upon moving into college life as a Freshman…. anyway! the quote that was printed on the poster:

I do my thing and you do your thing.

I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful

the actual, complete, quote:

I do my thing and you do your thing.

I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.
If not, it can’t be helped.

…and no! before you think it, I am not being curmudgeonly and cynical! (well, not too much), I use this ‘marketing-to-hopeful-kids correctness’ as an illustration of one of the really critical aspects of the Wakefield Doctrine. But, to hear the rest of my argument, lets go back to the beginning of today’s Post, ok?