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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 29, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

…now, where were we?

oh yeah…

But in the beginning, we spoke of the individual, (albeit mega-young lifeform), realizing their reality was that of (an) Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) or Herd Member(roger). And we meant it! (lol) Serially, we intended then, (and, at a certain level of discussion, now), to maintain that personal reality is real.

(Hey, on a personal note? We did not decide, at the age of five, to sign our Christmas cards to other family members with our full name because we were trying to be funny. (lol) We signed with our full name just to be on the safe side. To avoid scrutiny. (Honey, I can’t quite make out that first name, do we know a carl far.…)

A clark (or a scott or a roger) lives and, more importantly for today’s discussion, grows up in a real reality of one of three characteristic qualities. We didn’t find a ‘See and Say’ book titled ‘So You’re an Outsider!’ We adapted and compensated and developed the social strategies as best we could to survive in our worlds.

Fine.

But lets go back to the beginning of this line of…reasoning?!

We’re in a phase of transition in the ‘real’ world. (In the world of real estate, it being essentially self-employment, a business framework is necessary, usually a broker with all necessary services, admin primarly and….)

“Yes? The hand in the back. You have a question?”

“How long are you going to bore us? The 2:00 am commercial totally promised we would, ‘Learn the Principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, How to apply them. You know, like the guy in the record by those guys in the 90s? ‘We’ll talk right down to earth In a language that everybody here can easily understand.’ Come on, already! I want my Nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents worth!”

(Yeah!! What the scott said!!) (And no Jack Nicholson quotes!!) (Except that one from that movie with Niles in it!) (Yeah… that one!)

Fine. No one really needs to hear the details of the context of our lesson.

Surely, if y’all have done your assigned reading, you will be hoping the vid will be on the Final Exam.

Sorry, It won’t be on the Final Exam if for no other reason than there is no Final Exam.

But, serially, what’s not to love about this (movie) interaction between a scott and a roger. Remember how we talk about the personality types (of this Doctrine thing) are simply manifestation of the individual’s relationship to the world around them and the people who make it up? Never mind the context here. (In the movie, ‘Wolf’, James Spader got Jack pushed aside at the publishing house they both worked at. and a girl’s in it too… or something)

Doctrine ProTip: Everything Rule* notwithstanding, of the three, rogers are the natural politicians. The maneuverization and influentializing (neither are ‘real’ words but…) within an established organization? They are possessed of a natural ‘ear’ for and their ability to socialize. Perfect,

Hokey Smoke!

We just noticed an inference to this discussion of scotts and rogers that a) provides a heck of an insight, and 2) being way beyond the scope of today’s post allows a graceful (and informative) exit.

What we started to say, that James (rogerian) character had out-maneuvered Jack’s character? That was quite accurate. But… but! what about Jack’s (scottian) character’s strategy. Being in the world of the Predator, he would, initially, be limited to the predator/prey wide-open Savannah approach to Problem Solving(lol). He would not be aware of the ways and avenues to exert his will, in a bureaucratic environment, that James’s character possessed ‘naturally’.

Lesson: When in a situation, say in business like our original theme proposed, one would be wise to reflect upon how the terrain looks to ‘the other two’. Using ourselfs as a starting point, that means asking ourselfs, ‘What does a scott see here (fill in the blank with scenaria from the workplace) how would a roger feel about (ditto on the POV).

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that I am quite able to experience the world around me (and the people who make it up) as do all and each of the three personality types:

the Outsider (clarks) creative, curious to a fault and insanely fearful of scrutiny
the Predator (scotts) decisive, powerful and totally lacking in the capacity to remain still; subjective reflection being total anathema
the Herd Member (rogers) organized, analytical and devoid of the capacity to not take everything (and everyone) personally

… enough for today.
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* ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another… aka there is nothing in human experience that is the exclusive domain of one of the three predominant worldviews. That said, the styles of one often is more aligned with the expectations society assigns…

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 28, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop,

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine : “clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.” “It, (the application of the principles of the Doctrine), is all about helping us to better see the world as others are experiencing it.” and “the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them”.

4) yard work

5) yard (the Fern Circles are developing…slowly (‘course being green on green frills really helps photos pop!’ )

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop this week’s ‘Hey! Ya gotta read this one!’ ‘Love in the Afternoon‘ ceayr

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pix of the Week. ‘If Only‘. Liz (Valley Of The Trolls)

8) something something

9) hypo-grat*

“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.” (a clark? nah… lol) A power of example to Outsider people everywhere.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) chap 48-49 “A grat, being the conscious acknowledgement of things that incite the state of gratitude includes (hell, demands) we apply the same standards to our efforts of appreciation even when, especially when, they are no long part of our contemporaneous reality”

music vids

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t(he) Unicorn Challenge -the Wakefield Doctrine- “In which our Narrator, rumours of un-reliability notwithstanding, ventures out in Time.”

July 27, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, each week bloggers, writers, dreamers and those cast on the shore of the Land of Fiction are invited to look-upon an image provided by the hosts. Whether tea leaves not once-vital entrails borne, our stories are welcomed. There is a limit, not on topic or fictional-tropisms, but on wordcount. Two Hundred Fifty words.

This week’s un-punched ticket:

Granite and brick and mansard tower guarding God’s locker;
Beneath the squared vault, service stairs to Belle Époque

Leaning against my rental car, I tilted my head just enough for the casual passerby, or constantly-panning cctv to assume I was reading the letter in my left hand. Anachronism 101, the most req-of-prerequisites at the Academy, echoed as I took out my cell phone and held it at the same level, relative to my target’s probable location.

The memory of something Professor Abbott said on the first day of class tripped a pluperfect humor-circuit, “Your grade will have had been calculated only in the course of your first assignment.” I laughed aloud, here and now, standing in the streets of Arras in the rain.

The letter was more than a surveillance prop, it was the second step in my assignment. The first, of course, was writing it and leaving it in a safe deposit box for 139 years. Being here, in front of the Hotel Moderne, was actually the third step. Now, looking both ways, I crossed the Boulevard Faidherbe and started the process of closing the temporal loop.

I couldn’t help but smile at the photo in my phone of the hotel registry: D. Oppelgänger Rm 23.

Standing at the door, the thought came to me, ‘Suppose I don’t actually knock?”

Of course, I did. The traditional sound of knuckles-on-wood filled my hotel room, signaling my graduation from the Academy of Temporal Investigative Agents.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 24, 2024 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 only rule is: six sentences in length.

Prompt Word:

PLATFORM

“Damn vehicular peristalsis…’

The sole occupant of the car felt a mental finger depress a well-worn, (so worn that if one could see it, they would observe a cream-colored rounded-corner protrusion, somewhere between the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex), and in the slightly concave surface, a faded-black letter ‘O’, the man’s ‘Out-loud thinking’ button.

“What did you say?”

The sole passenger’s face had the look of affectionately-patient resignation, the corners of her mouth a true telltale, the time-pressed creases of age rose upwards; her partner’s youthful eccentricities, like some wines, a handful of paintings and all of love, smoothed themselves over time into endearingly creative expressions.

As traffic resumed forward motion, she recalled the conclusion of his last bi-decade physical; his physician made a point of mentioning a certain behavior/syndrome common to a certain stage of life, “The Latin phrase is: ‘Quo profundiores cogitationes sunt, eo majore apud nos loquimur’.

“I think therefore I mutter,” The man, stepping off the ledge-platform that stuck out of the end of the exam table, continued,

“We,” looking at his wife, perched on the only seating that didn’t have stirrups or a covering of white paper, “have an agreement that, when in public she will look at me and nod, like we were in a conversation and I will refrain from swearing excessively.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 23, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Let’s get started with two jumping off points: 1) yesterday’s Post which we ended with the suggestion that we (your HN) may serve as an illustration example and b) yesterday’s Comment from Misky, (“…which of three is an “ourselfs” – and is that the same as ourselves, as in how do we put ourselves into someone else’s shoes“.)

The fact is that although we, all of us, have but one predominant worldview, we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. And, seeing how we are so unselfishly, graciously and desperately offering our ownselfs as test monkey/space gerbil/psych-major’s thesis volunteer college sophomore, we offer ourselfs as: clark predominant worldview with a significant secondary scottian aspect and a weak rogerian tertiary.

So, to keep this simple: we have a meeting today with some people in a new organization. We have something to explain to them, (kinda like selling), and they are motivated to want us to convince them they should do what we suggest, (kinda like successful sales).

What does the Wakefield Doctrine offer in this context/situation?

The coolest thing about the Wakefield Doctrine as a way to self-improve oneself is: there is no need to ‘learn’ anything ‘new’. While my predominant worldview is not most likely to suceed at sales, my secondary scottian aspect is. (Note: we’ll leave the distinction between ‘sales’ and ‘relationship building’ for another post. Spoiler Alert!! One is scottian the other is… rogerian!!. Don’t tell anyone.)

But, before we continue, let’s take a moment for some real Doctrine fun.

In the early days of this blog, when we sought to describe the three personality types, we would use the concept of personal reality. We’ll say now, as we did then, personal reality is something most people find reasonable. It’s not anything weird or extravagant, no flying toasters or talking dogs (well, maybe, the talking dogs)… but simply put, everyone’s reality is, to small but significant degree, personal.

Still with us? cool. With time and development of writing skills(sic) we’ve come to describe the Doctrine in terms that (hopefully) are more accessible to the New Reader while still useful to any Students to the School there. In the matter of personal reality, we’ve come to focus on the concept of relationships, specifically, ‘How we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up’.

But in the beginning, we spoke of the individual, (albeit mega-young lifeform), realizing their reality was that of (an) Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) or Herd Member(roger). And we meant it! (lol) Serially, we intended then, (and, at a certain level of discussion, now), to maintain that personal reality is real.

(Hey, on a personal note? We did not decide, at the age of five, to sign our Christmas cards to other family members with our full name because we were trying to be funny. (lol) We signed with our full name just to be on the safe side. To avoid scrutiny. (Honey, I can’t quite make out that first name, do we know a carl far.…)

A clark (or a scott or a roger) lives and, more importantly for today’s discussion, grows up in a real reality of one of three characteristic qualities. We didn’t find a ‘See and Say’ book titled ‘So You’re an Outsider!’ We adapted and compensated and developed the social strategies as best we could to survive in our worlds.

(Anticipated Reply to Comment from our more emotionally-developed Readers: Yeah, at first (and later at times) but we found much to occupy our time, so loneliness is not the first descriptive word that comes to mind.)

…to be cont’d