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the Wakefield Doctrine… “it’s not all read and study and Quizzes and such, we have fun too!”

September 7, 2012 By clarkscottroger

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

Alright you Readers! a show of (virtual) hands, who out there said, ” clarks are the ghosts, scotts are so the werewolves and those rogers? ‘Velcome to my castle’… lol vampires! vampires!”

OK! OK! we’ll do one more easy one and then we talk about the ‘why’ (we know that) they are clarks and scotts and rogers

The Wizard of Oz
The first part of this is so easy only because it’s Friday and we want you all to get it right! Anyone who does not get this one correct is required to call us tomorrow Night* and explain why you should be allowed to continue coming here and reading this thing.
So of the three: the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion which is the clark and which is the scott and which is the roger?

(Bonus Question!! The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch: which is the clark, who is the scott and of the three, the roger is?)

Very good!

Before we dismiss class early, lets talk a little about the Doctrine and the first Quiz. I’m sure everyone correctly answered: the ghost is a clark and the werewolf is a scott and Count Dracula is a roger. For the benefit of our newer Readers, here is how we came to that conclusion:

clarks live in the reality of the outsider. We don’t have to tell the clarks out there, but we will say to you rogers and scotts, there are times, when you are in a group of friends, a clark is standing one person away from you and jumping up and down and yelling and you don’t even hear a thing! Seriously, clarks are so the outsiders that not a week goes by that they do not find themselves, at some point in one of the days of the week, effectively invisible. Maybe not ‘photos-can’t-be-taken’ invisible, but in a group of people for all intents and purposes, they might as well stayed in Cleveland. Hence, the ghost
…so you are driving in your car, talking to your friend. Funny, thoughtful, even perceptive you enjoy the exchange of ideas. As you pull up to a traffic light, the first thing you notice is that the car in the lane next to you is full of girls, the next sound you hear is the passenger side window rolling down as your friend, by now physically half out of the car is yelling and hooting and making very loud noises… ah! the fun of scotts!
rogers are friendly, very friendly…if you think about the word in a generic sense, they are seductive in their friendliness they seem to hang on every word you say… then sun rises, you open the newspaper…rogers!!

Everyone have a good weekend! Those of you who have phones call us Saturday*. The number is below.

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the Wakefield Doctrine: it’s ‘Easy Week’ at the ole Wakefield Corral

August 27, 2012 By clarkscottroger

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

DS#1 has posed the question:

Someone get that roger his bird water…tell him he’ll have to settle for slipper socks.
The peanut M&M’s are a go as is the Chardonnay. Cheese platter?! Fine.
Cheetos will be allowed on premises only if accompanied by an equal amount of Fritos. (regular ones, not those weird scooping ones.)
The cubanos – yes, I mean the cuban cigars. Have them personally delivered to my dressing room by Antonio Banderas. Yes, seriously.

Silly, no? But what about the very real possibility. Of a radio program. Who doesn’t have a radio show these days. Seems to make sense. At some point the Doctrine will be saturating the market. Why the hell not? I, for one, have already started using terminology on a more “day to day” basis. You know, getting comfortable with it. The theory of clarks, scotts and rogers….it is what it is

Since the corollary topic appears to be centered on the ‘state of the spirit’ of the current effort to spread the Wakefield Doctrine among people inclined to ‘get it’, I will state, for the record, that I am in the midst of a project that involves my rogerian aspect.
(Compressed backstory: my rogerian aspect jumped out* recently and manifested in my workplace, effectively putting me in a position to host an after-hours social event for the other brokers in my office. Not surprisingly, the initial reaction to my emailed invitation has been mostly “WTF?” This is totally appropriate as I am a clark and have assiduously cultivated a business persona so as to include a certain non-social aspect…nothing anti-social or in any way an impediment to my work, but lets just say, I am sent invitations to the annual Christmas Party only when a new person is in charge of organizing it. So today there is a certain level of anticipation regarding tonight’s affair, if for no other reason than the contrast between my established business persona (a clark) and this episodic persona (a roger!). Oh yeah, many of the attendees are ‘aware’ of the Wakefield Doctrine and, I would like to think, they are watching to see if I can pull this off as a roger.)

So lets get all ‘water cooler’ on the Doctrine this week! No lessons (at least for now) but if you care to Comment and start another ‘conversation’ or wish to Comment on either of the two threads established in today’s Post, have at it!

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine, Uncategorized Tagged With: personality types, predicting human behavior, psychology of personality, self-development, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine

Rinji news o moshiagemasu! Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!*

December 28, 2010 By clarkscottroger

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

I will begin this Post by stating, without the slightest fear of contradiction that it is never dull here at the Doctrine! Self-referential, inside joke(y), semi-private conversation(al), maybe…but dull? No, no and no!
Can we help it that there are at present only about 6 ‘people’ who submit Comments, make suggestions, proffer criticism? Huh, can we? Yeah, you’re goddamn right we can’t! We are all doing our best to get the message out about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers and while there may be some small, little, hardly-noticeable-amount of room for improvement to how we present this blog, we are quite proud of all our efforts here. Thank you. We have been hard at work at this blog for nearly a year and a half now ( damn! how many Posts is that?) and we see a lot of progress in most areas.
Except one.
Area.
That needs improvement.
We are talking about the number of Comments from Readers, maybe frequency of Comments is a better way to put it. In other words, how often there is a Comment from a person who is not either:

a Progentior (3)
a Downspring (5)
a Friend of the Doctrine (10)

Not a very large number? No, no it is not. But it is about a Seventeen Hundreths Increase over the last 18 months. So I think it is safe to say we are all happy with that order of increase.
The Problem? Who said there was a problem? Oh, yeah! thats right. The reason for bringing the issue up now, at this particular moment? End of the year, of course…silly.

The End-of-the-Year Week is almost without exception full of Posts that strive for:

Introspection
Critical Reflection
Metric-centric Reflection on 4Q progressive Action Item Implementation

Can’t say with any real certainty that it is true in all cultures, but pretty sure that in (this) current Western Culture, the Last Week of the Year is traditionally the Week of Milestones and (past year’s) Accomplishments. We tend to get all, “so what have we accomplished in the last year? Newspapers run their, Stories of the Year or a Obituary of Famous People ( “Look Whos not Talking Now”! )
The Official Blog of the Wakefield Doctrine is no exception! In this final week of 2010 we are walking around asking ourselfs, “What did we do really well, what produced the most intense feeling of suckation and what do we hope to do next year”?
(Actually this last item is a Post in and of itself, customarily the much more, the Last Post of the Current Year. (Hold that thought, wait a minute!…thats what we need glenn to write a Post on! Damn. glenn!! yo!! NO! shit!! don’t answer outloud! Do not look around your office, just keep reading this…act like nothing funny is happening…(ha ha) glenn, dude… look in your email after 1:00 pm this afternoon. Instructions to follow.)

What have we Done the Best? in this, the Year of the Pancreas? We have continued.
We’ve had days of with very good, thought-provoking Posts and well-written Discussion-inspiring Comments. We had months of a-post-a-day writing jag, producing some fairly odd Content. We had a new blog geek, hell we may have even changed the very look of the blog site itself!¹
We have really had a busy year in 2010! What am forgetting? I know! Bullet Points!

the Wakefield Doctrine went out on it’s own, webhosting-wise. We left the shelter of the free, ‘no-you-can’t-do-that’ free blog hosting of WordPress.com
self-hosting and therefore independent a lot of potential became available to us, we immediately went with music videos with every Post!
got our first blog Consultant…which was helpful at first but then we got (client)down-graded and assigned to some whiney geek who tried to call us lame….goodbye!
got another Consultant…(have we done a Post yet on how clarks build others up beyond realistic expectations and then stand back and act surprised when they let us down)?
well, we do/she did/our fault/whatever
found a really good looking “theme’ (which is the overall style of the blog) called Branford…liked it a lot and, of course, had to change it! (jeez! they put us in charge of these things?)
Hats! (and) Right of Hat!! Joanne was the first and because of her initiative is the proud title-holder to the District of Columbia! and Mel (part of “Michigan”) and DS#1…parts of EF EL AY

I could go an and on…and probably will, but I was trying to make a point at the beginning of this Post. What was it…oh yeah…Encouraging Readers to Comment.

Readers! Yes I mean you. We know you are out there. Do us a favor and let us know what you think of this here blog here.
I know that facebook has little icons that show a ‘thumbs up’ to help people express their approval. Very clever. But since we don’t have any of those, what we need you to do is this:
at the bottom of this Post is a ‘Leave a Comment’ place, why don’t you go ahead and leave us a little Comment. No, this Post! It does not have to be well thought out, no you really shouldn’t need to think about it. There is not a test. Just put in your name and email and then write something to us. The email address? No one sees that except for me when (your Comment) comes in for “Moderation”. Thats the function that I control that glenn is such a big fan of…I look at everything that comes in and then hit: approve.

So, go ahead and do this for all of us here at the Doctrine. CY? Terri? Doung? Mel?, Jason? Ronin? Kino? all you FODs come on guys we’re counting on you.

…’Kay Mr. B?…lets get these feets a-movin…

1. Have we mentioned anything about my little, really-not-such-a-big-thing, (don Juan thinks it is the way to go), problem with remembering the Past? Didn’t huh? Well, I kinda don’t bother paying attention to things after they happen. Actually an old habit, clouding one’s personal history it’s called. Totally believe in it! Has really helped in the last few years…but not so good when writing a Year-In-Review Post like this one! Oh well. Whataya gonna do?

* Hey, figure it out yourselfs! Do I look like ‘the google’? I’ll bet the Progenitor roger gets it right away. Alright, one hint: Blue Oyster Cult

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: clarkscottroger, Personal, personality types, psychology of personality, relationships, the Wakefield Doctrine

Gimme a “S”, gimme a “C”, gimme an “O”, gimme…screw that just pay attention

November 1, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Ok, I’ve given you plenty of time to find your “eureka moment.” But I have yet to hear from anybody. Come on people.

What? You’ve been too busy?!

Give me a break. Why wouldn’t anyone want to take just a moment to read something that would change their entire view of the world and the people in it? It’s not rocket science for crying out loud. Forget about all of those left brain right brain, enneagram nine personality types, briggs myers, Jungian personality theories.

They are confusing and quite frankly useless. You have to take a frickin’ psychology class to understand them.

Unlike those “oh look at my blog, aren’t we smart with charts and graphs and the rest of that rogerian crap”. Screw that! Here at the Wakefield Doctrine there are no personality tests. We’ve made it fun and easier than ever to understand.
What do I have to do to get you to take a quick look?
You know that once you do you’ll be hooked, amazed at how simple it is. When you finally get around to checking it out, you’ll be thinking, “Why didn’t I take a look at this sooner? I can’t believe what I’ve been missing out on. What a refreshing and useful way understand and even predict the way everyone behaves.”

So get over to the Wakefield Doctrine. Go ahead, take a peek. Yeah, I can just hear you now… “whoa… this is a lot to learn. I don’t have time for this…” The beauty of the Doctrine is that you don’t have to read absolutely everything to get it. Just take a look at the summaries of the three types (clarks, scotts and rogers) and read a Post or two.
You’ll be on board in no time. Oh, and don’t forget to share your thoughts. Your Comments, as always, are welcome and are a key part of the Doctrine.

Filed Under: The Basic Principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, Uncategorized

what are you looking here for? this is a scott talking, studying ahead ain’t gonna help

September 21, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Hey everybody! AKH-ette is back in the house!

As you (should) know by now, we at the Wakefield Doctrine have been making a concerted effort to get the word on the street. You know, about how much fun and useful the Wakefield Doctrine can be when applied to our everyday lives. About how with a basic understanding of the characteristics of each group (clarks, scotts and rogers), anyone can understand everyone else! You will know how those around you will act in virtually any situation. And you will understand what has never made sense to you about the people you work with, live with and/or are friends with. You will have the answer to the question, ‘Why on earth would you do that/say that/feel that way?’

So let’s see who’s done their homework. Raise your hand if you think you know who you are. Anybody? (come on clark, come on out from behind the door.) We do not judge or criticize here at the Doctrine (be nice scott). Ok, maybe a little teasing from time to time (we’ll be gentle with our new readers/contributors). But it’s all in fun. Or it might just piss you off enough to leave a frickin’ comment (come on scott, not again. Our new readers are not looking for a pissing contest). Maybe defend one of your own (roger). If you’re still confused and feel that you identify with all three types, you are on the right track. It is the predominance of qualities that make us one or the other…the overall ‘style’ that makes one a clark or a scott or a roger.

So hop on over to the Wakefield Doctrine and discover which of the three (clark, scott or roger) both you and those around you are. Remember that eureka moment I was talking about last time we got together? Well here’s one from me: when all of a sudden you find yourself saying “….no wonder why he’s always so loud and has to be the center of attention… he’s a frickin’ scott!!!”

Now run little ones and find your own. And don’t forget to share them.

“…you’re damn right I said that!!”