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

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

Here at the Wakefield Doctrine we say the process of using the perspective (of the Doctrine) only begins when we accept ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. (Without fail, an admonition is appended: ‘Be sure to notice the exact wording. We didn’t say, ‘… how we relate to the world around us’, we said, ‘… how we relate ourselves to the world around us.’ All the difference in the world.)

It’s an easy mistake to make. We’re all bombarded with advice on relating to situations, we’re asked if we can relate to this idea or that directive. Even (our) own best efforts to get along with the people in our world, the focus is entirely on the relationship, i.e. how we relate. The Wakefield Doctrine will, by necessity, nature and design, require those who would employ its principles to take themselves into account, (and thereby accounting for themselves) when assessing the relationship between themselves and the world (around them).

Kinda unavoidable, when you think about it. The Doctrine is about nothing if it’s not about the proposition that we all live and interact with the world and the people around us from within our own personal realities. The immediate benefit of this view is that it tends to eliminate the stress of cognitive dissonance that inevitably occurs when a person (in our world) acts in a manner inconsistent with what we believe is obviously true. We all have at least one friend, relative, or co-worker who we know to be mature, intelligent and good-natured people. Yet they exhibit, maintain and otherwise seem to find compatible one attitude/strongly-held belief/persistent-despite-overwhelming-evidence-to-the-contrary opinion. This is where the stress begins. ‘How,’ we ask ourselves (or anyone nearby), ‘can they believe that/maintain that position?’ It makes no sense. And yet there it is. Once we can bring ourselves to accept that, within this other person’s reality, the unreasonable is not as unreasonable, in fact, the unreasonable may make perfect sense, in their experience, we are able to stop twisting ourselves up trying to reconcile the irreconcilable. (Note to new Readers: temper this example. If you have a voice that is interrupting the sense of understanding that is growing within, that is only your ego, the part of your world that insists that there is only one world, one reality, or, at least, only one real reality. Read on and ask questions.)

Of course, the instant we concede the validity of this viewpoint, we’re forced to accept the (relative) truth about ourselves, the ‘ourselves’ in ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. It is way hard, but totally worth the effort. To know the world can be a path to knowing ourselves, provided we have the stomach for it. We say that for the obvious (or not so obvious reason): if it is true, in our example above, that the personal characteristics of one’s reality allows a person to know, for a fact, a thing is correct despite the evidence to the contrary, what does that imply about our own world? (Yeah, I know! But this part is only as upside-down as you would let it be. Remember, there’s a part of all of us that will maintain, at all costs, that the world we know is the way it is, no matter what anyone else says.)

Good news! Even as you tackle the effort of a lifetime, the Wakefield Doctrine makes the better understanding the people in our lives, way fun. And, when it comes to actually self-improving ourselves? It’s as easy as circular dessert pastry! You have within, the capacity to experience the world from the perspective of all three personality types, which means the strengths of each are available to develop and express. très cool.

Speaking of cool, Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia is on her own path to discover and self-develop herself, recently wrote of her adventures along the path,

“The comfort zone is an illusion, y’all. It’s the ego talking to keep us from reaching our full potential in the name of relative safety” (from ‘The Benefits of a Personal Retreat’ ) Get on over to Intuitive and Spiritual, tell her the Doctrine sent ya.

 

Don’t forget to get out your short pencil and scrap paper! Tomorrow is Thursday and that means one thing, Six Sentence Story! zoe (and her able assistant Joules) will have a prompt word and you are invited to find the best six sentences you can and put it in story form. It’s fun.

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Very Good!

Your reward, (aka reinforcement), for reading this admittedly dry, (but informative), RePrint post is the music vid below. (Contrary to popular misconception, clarks are not inveterate passive-Aggressors! We just prefer the less-direct approach to dealing with people. ok, we abhor adversarial confrontations and, since, done correctly, the passive-aggressive approach does not paint an arrow on our poor-postured-backs, we can live with the risk of disapproval.

It’s not like we’re unaware of the cost of this particular interpersonal approach.

Thanks and a shout-out to Nick for doing his piece on Moby. Sure, we all recognized a clark as he spoke. But the ‘cost’ alluded to in the previous sentence? Go back to Nick’s Breaking Boundaries #12 and read all the Comments. (Hint for the rogers and scotts: ‘They were typing on the same page with, like eighty-nine photos, vid clips and content and, for the most part they were ‘pretty sure they knew this Moby-guy. And, in their opinion, he was pretty good at whatever he did.”)

Welll. Our Mr. Moby surely has burned his identity into the minds and lives of those Commentors. I would put an ‘lol’ here, but we want to let the clarks, (as opposed to the rogers and scotts with significant secondary clarklike aspects), take a moment. If determined enough, we (as Readers), can endure: ‘our heads swelling up and our faces falling’. In fact, we, in all good intent, encourage them to let that feeling establish itself. Sometimes we are better at being ourselfs than we realize.

That said, Mr. Moby has done quite well for himself. He has altered the world to a small but significant extent. We, as clarks, cannot (or, this being a platform for Outsiders), should not feel that the only way to change is to ‘learn’ to be as self-promoting’ as a roger or as ‘in-your-face-what’s-my-name’ as a scott. Our predominant worldview, with all it’s flaws and shortcomings, is as essential to the theoretical perfect combination as the other two.

Lets listen to a clark and a roger and then

get out there in the world and do something.

(now we will include: lol)

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

Founded thirteen years ago, in 2003, in a thatched cottage on the banks of the River Worcestershire in County Glam on the outskirts of the Devonian Forest, the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop has been a positive force in the blogosphere. Whether people are aware of it or not. Simply taking the time to reflect on the previous seven, (or seventy or One thousand Six Hundred and seven), days automatically imparts an additional perspective on our lifes. And, if there is a secret-of-the-universe ready-made for a one minute commercial to interrupt your favorite youtube channel’s newest posts, it would be perspective. That’s all the Wakefield Doctrine its-own-self is, an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

Meanwhile, here is our perspective on the people, places and/or things we are currently aware of being grateful for:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) alternate bloghops, i.e. the Unicorn Challenge (hosted by ceayr and jenne) (and the Doctrine’s contribution this week: ‘The Rain like Rust Drowns the World‘)

6) Last phase of the grass project  (straw around the cottage)

7)  the Wakefield Doctrine (redux)… we’ve all watched the movie clips we’ve posted over the years that illustrate one (or more) of the three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine: ‘I’m gonna get you Stewart‘ (a scott and a roger), ‘You’re not on my job‘ (a clark (DeNiro), a scott (Caruso) and a roger (Towles). Well, Friend of the Doctrine Nick has provided us with another resource in this aspect of learning the Wakefield Doctrine over at his new stomping grounds, the Rhythm Section with his most excellent piece on Moby.

8) something, something

9) new WAF1

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [“…’cause if we didn’t have secret rules, then that kinda makes the whole Garden of Eden, ‘please, one thing only, just don’t (snicker, snicker) eat this Apple (chortling angels off stage-right.”]

 

1) waf: Weird-Assed-Flower

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All the Days are Fridays… -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

Here we are again. The linear merry-go-round of the week brings up, (or, does it, in fact, bring to us), the last of the workdays. Friday.

Lets see what our Apperceptive Thematicians, jenne and ceayr have cooked up for us this Friday.

this is the Unicorn Challenge

 

 

“You do understand the fusion cycle of stars, do you not?”

The Inspector decided to interrupt the scientist. He’d been warned by the Dean of the Oxford School of Physics that a Noble Prize in astrophysics notwithstanding, Professor Liverly would’ve had a shelf full if they gave one for lecturing.

“Yes, but this, this occurrence is here on Earth. In Hyde Park if I’m not mistaken.”

Turning from the blackboard, the academician raised an eyebrow with the assumed authority of a symphony conductor, “As Above so Below, you have heard the expression?”

Not bothering waiting for an answer the man continued, turning a rhetorical corner with such force that, had there been any personal injury attorneys in the lecture hall, they’d have cheered.

“You’ve heard the tale of King Midas?”

“What does any of that have to do with geese and the human race?”

“Consider: at the heart of our Sun,” the man looked at the yellow dust on his fingers as if for the first time, “a process that, despite the scale of time, is a dead end road.”

The Chief Inspector felt a chill, “You’re not making sense, that’s nuclear fusion.”

“Imagine if, somehow, fusion manifested within living things, with their infinitesimally short time scale… atoms fuse and create heavier elements. But only until they reach a certain element.  That element is iron. When our sun reaches tries to fuse iron, it dies.”

“The rusty swan the news reports are blaring on about? That is mankind’s future.”

 

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Rue DeNite Six]

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, guided by the simplest of rules: use the prompt word and tell a story in exactly six sentenceseses.

Story note: as we learned in last week’s Six, Rue is a stage name, not her real name,

Prompt word:

STRAIN

“Now, keep a strain on that bowline and I’ll kick the stern around ’til we’re clear of our bunkmate.”

Her father’s voice, although church-quiet as he prepared to free their boat from another that had tied up to them in the night, had a way of gently brushing her hair over her ear; it always made her feel like she could do anything.

The harbor was a mirror full of pleasure boats, the 5:00 am sun still behind the salt-scented gauze of fog preparing for the day ahead; standing on the bow, her hands on the line wrapped around the small-t of the bollard, Kasia felt the boat shift and then rotate stern-first outwards; her father jumped from their boat, the Elysium, to the dock to secure the boat that had blocked their departure.

“Good job,” the girl fought the urge to laugh, her oft-misunderstood way of reacting to a compliment was acceptable in grade school but that was now a month behind her; stepping down into the cockpit, breakwater approaching like a good-natured crocodile, she laughed anyway.

“You have the helm, Number One,” her father backed down through the hatchway and into the galley, the sounds of cups and coffee temporarily competing with the private burbling of the small auxiliary engine as the boat found it’s way out into the still mirror-flat sea, the uniform overcast-sky erased the horizon as her father returned topside.

“Your life is as this ocean, at this moment, limitless and accepting any course you chose to chart,” Kasia smiled and let her fingers trace flowing runes in the water as the boat headed East.

 

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- (ok, a RePrint… we promise)

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

We’ve promised a RePrint. But contemporaneous writing has elbowed them aside like a hungry scott in a high school cafeteria line. (And, come on, you remember! The lunch ladies all laughed. Them lunch ladies loved them some scotts cutting in line.)

Talk about your psychosocial ‘Lost World’ (1960) High School! A land that Time repressed! lol

(wait! We’re feeling a bit guilty* Nick and Mimi and Denise were kind enough to comment on yesterday’s exegesis re: Referential Authority (The Hunt for Artifacts!) It would be rude of us not to include (an) actual reprinted-’cause-we-already-wrote-it post. Seeing how tomorrow is Six Sentence Story day and then, Friday is ‘Is Unicorn a verb or an adjective‘ bloghop day.

We would be remiss, bigtime, if’n we don’t produce the thrice-promised post.

Here ya go (Thanks, guys)

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‘the reality of worldviews and everyday life’ the Wakefield Doctrine (an effort to apply Molly’s Rule*)

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

hey! Readers between the ages of  30 to 40 …quick!! what performers are the 18 to 20 year olds in college listening to right now, today?  …don’t laugh, ’41 to 60 y.o.s  what are the names of the three highest drawing live music acts that will bring out the 13 to 15 years old set?  ok, good, …don’t get too confident!  golf fans!!! yeah, you!! who is the current top seed male tennis player?  (hell, lets make it easy on the golf fans… hey! golfers!!! who recently deposed the (previous) top player on the LPGA?   …no, I didn’t think so.)

People sometimes have difficulty ‘getting’ the Wakefield Doctrine and the leading reason for this is the concept of worldview (aka personal reality).  The Doctrine is predicated on the notion that we all live in a reality that is personal. The ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine are simply markers for the (characteristic) worldview that a given person grows up, develops and lives their lives in, day in and day out. Rather than ask you, the Reader, a series of questions and then seeing what category you fit in, the Wakefield Doctrine would have you try to infer how a person is ‘relating themself to the world around them. If you can do that, then you will know more about that person than they know about themselves. And the way we get to the point of being able to correctly infer the worldview of a person is by a thorough understanding of the characteristics of the three worldviews:

  1. the reality of the Outsider that results in a clarklike personality person, (…sitting invisibly next to you through 4 years of high school, dreaming of the chance of being normal and you expect him to believe that washing your hair is the only reason you can’t go to a fuckin football game… or giving the freshman rogers their first look at  MC Escher and Maxfield Parrish prints only to be left sitting there on the single bed with the macramé wall hangings and the ‘hang in there, baby’ poster taped to the cinderblock wall as he just about runs out of your dorm room because his girlfriend from high school decided she would entertain a further apology )
  2. the life of the Predator, who survives growing up in a world of Predator and Prey simply is that person (male orfemale… yay!! for the female…woohooo!! scottian women…. the stiletto  shoes industry bows before your plunging neckline…. and male scotts??  hell, how else was I ever expecting to end up in the Principals office/local police station/soldout concert in Boston with 3 dollars in gas and 40 minutes to get there?!?!  of the three personality types, who better knows that life is all about today?)
  3. the orderly, predictable, quantifiable and there-is-a-Right-way-to-do-things world of the Herd Member, rogersto the right of you and rogers to the left of you, they are all around, always, simply because the roger lives in the center of the herd….which herd? does not matter… why are they of the herd? didn’t you hear me? they are in the center of the herd, with rogers to the left and rogers to the right…what more do you need to know? male or female, they are there, wherever you go, unless you are stranded on a desert island and, you start to think, ‘well, I’m here alone stranded on a desert island, so I guess there are no rogers around’ and then you realize you are talking to a decorated coconut….and you are not alone)

ok…out of time today.  Molly’s Rule?  go ask her… here’s her Facebook page  (she’s a friend of the Doctrine and so, probably won’t have you blocked for stalking her…but you never know, better go ahead and tell her the Doctrine sent ya)

 

Don’t forget!!! tomorrow is Guest Post Thursday’s Weekly Once a Week Guest Post….Thursday   rogers!

 

*once we were talking about writing on one of the Saturday Night Drive calls…and I was asking the same old question: how to better get the Doctrine across to the Readers, and Molly, who knows her way around story writing said, ‘you don’t need to give them every possible fact or information, assume they are intelligent enough to get it and if they need more information, they can ask‘  (or words to that effect). I try to keep the Rule in mind, and sometimes even manage to apply it.

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* yeah, right! guilty. kinda an appendix, inculcated social limiter when it comes to clarks. rogers? they totally feel guilt but it’s more often than not the exquiste sauce on the banquet of life’s multi-course meal and.. scotts? the ketchup on the side of the mouth resulting from ‘burgers-on-the-run’ to be swiped with a forearm as they head to their next adventure

 

 

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