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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 5, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

Simplest, (arguably most useful), result of adopting the perspective the Wakefield Doctrine? In terms of the events of the day to come, (vis á vis our interaction with the world around us and the people who make it up.)

There are three realities possible for all of us. Therefore how others act (and react) is made understandable in one of these three predominant worldviews.

It’s Monday morning!!

clarks (the Outsider) “Oh well, even the most determined wish for an alternative more/less advantageous outcome to our efforts today, to learn the thing that everyone else seems to know, it’s best to get out there and keep tryin'”
scotts (the Predator) “Allll right!! Night survived… quiet now, catch ’em by surprise!”
rogers (the Herd Member) “Ah… a day of opportunity, a time to hone our understanding and spread the word about the Right Way”

there ya go.

Encounter an obstacle later this morning? Try on the three views-of-the-world above. One of them will tell you how the other person, (the obstacle), is experiencing your world (at that) moment. Use the insight wisely.

There is not a situation possible that, seeing through the eyes of another, cannot be improved with the slightest of effort.

Full Disclosure: By ‘slightest of efforts’ we mean really, really, no, seriously, really difficult, to actually do. And the reason? That’s gonna aggravate some Readers, makes others laugh and, unless they move on to something more familiar, piss off others. The key to this effort is to accept that there is more to the world than what you know.

But, the Doctrine is fun, too! Find a roger (or a scott or a clark) in your life today and, if you’ve done enough reading to know the characteristics of the three, you will find yourself thinking, “Hey This is a set up! They must’ve read that Doctrine thing.”

WARNING: If you can recognize the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world? There’s a very good chance you will become unable to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life. lol

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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 26, 2025 By clarkscottroger 12 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A bloghop without peer. An exercise in self-developing one’s sense of balance. Enhancing our capacity for interacting with the world around us (and the people who make it up) with grace and strength.

For the Doctrine, following is a list of the people, places and things that that have made us glad we bothered to go to the gym.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) Snake on a Lawn:

7) yard project

8) got through the monthly creation of the linkz code for the TToT. The one daunting task incumbent on us as the current Host. God’s nose that with a key-mistroke, we could all end up being grateful as the Franco-Prussian War rages, the destruction ensuing from the Battle-of-GravyTrain reminding us ‘there’s no place like home’.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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wheww -endnesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 23, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

Mimi, in her Comment yesterday, reminds us

Sounds simple but not necessarily easy.

Sound (ha ha) advice.

…to which we might add, ‘Whew! We were afraid it would be easy’.

God knows how clarks wrestle with those things that scotts and rogers totally make look, not easy as much as…effortless. Almost as if, there was a day that we played hooky when all the scottian and rogerian children were in class (surely at a place with a name like Universitas Secretum Infantibus) learning ‘How to be a Real Person’ (lol)

New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them; (and) understand the (three) relationships that are the basis for our little personality theory and you can’t get it wrong.

RePrint!

alright, recess is over, time to get back to work

March 18, 2010

Well…..That certainly was different…perhaps a way of ‘letting off steam’ or even just having fun, nothing says this blog has to be all serious. But our task remains, the goal of this blog remains ever the same: to present the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) in a way that is easy to understand and allows you, the Reader, to apply (it’s) principles to your daily life.

I believe it was in the (…you do not want to look down) Post…we said that we will be focusing on each of the three types, one Post for each. First up: clarks.

To begin, this Post will not be about clarks in the sense of what they are, or how to spot them or even (their) characteristics. This Post is concerned with clarks from the perspective of how they relate to this Wakefield Doctrine thing. A clark reading this blog will be curious and will read much of the material, but they will do this in order to compare what the Doctrine is to the system they already have in place. Information is the central feature in the world of the clarks.

(A little dry, but then we are talking about clarks…) but stay with us here. This Post and the two to follow will be of value to us in answering the question: ‘how do I get through to a clark (or a scott or a roger)?’
Put another way, spotting a roger or a scott or a clark is pretty simple. But, ‘speaking the language’ of these three types of people is not so simple.

Our challenge is to learn to communicate with the other(s) in their language, on their terms.
A clark talking to a scott will sound like a clark (to that scott). But it is possible for that clark to speak to the scott in the ‘scottian language’.
Of course, we are not talking about ‘languages’ in the everyday sense and it is more about being able to perceive reality as the other does.
If you can do that, you will automatically speak their language.

Lets try this: you’re a clark (come back scott, come back lol), you are standing in a room full of people at some social function. Being a clark, you are standing in a corner and you are looking around and listening to everyone, trying to learn what is expected of you. Into the room comes a scott, who immediately begins to ‘work the room’, going from person to person, establishing ranking and locating food. This scott does not need to learn (what is expected of them), they simply need to act. To survive.
If you, (a clark) goes up to this scott and offers information, you will be identified as a clark. To the scottian brain: you are not a competitor and you are not food. The scott will be cautious, until you are identified to the scotts satisfaction)

But, suppose for a minute, you could speak scottian, the language of a scott. What do you suppose the difference would be?
You would not be offering information, for a start. And you would not be trying co-operate with this (scott). You would simply communicate with the scott directly.
(Now, the clarks out there reading this are leaping ahead of this little example…the implications of switching perspective to that of the other….hold up clarkies…lets try to bring along the rogers and scotts…they are not running out ahead on this one…)

So you go up to the scott and first and foremost demand their attention. You become a scott.
Damn.

Let’s just put it this way: the Wakefield Doctrine can provide you with enough information/perspective/encouragement to enable you to perceive the world as the other two types do and, by doing this, you will be able to communicate with them more effectively. Totally.

Of course, if you do this you may find that the message that you are trying to convey to the other person is changed by the fact that you are seeing the world differently. But that is a Post length topic in and of itself. In the following Posts we will consider this changing of the message effect that comes when we see the world through the eyes of another. This will be most difficult to the scotts and the rogers, but hey if this were easy I would be on TV by now.

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Wednezdae -the Wakefield Doctrine

April 16, 2025 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

Seeing how we’re on such a self-educating ourselfs kick this week, lets get all Miller Analogy on this bad boy:

a clark is to Outsider as a

a scott is to: Predator/Tasmanian Devil/accidental amphetamine ingestion/all of the above

a roger is to: Herd Member/Obsessive-compulsive CPA/the Rain Man (character) played by David Spader (actor)

ok, enough frivolity.

We were in a conversation the other day about the Doctrine. (Yeah, like those stories you used to hear from the first generation immigrant kid in your elementary school. How their parents spoke the language of the old country but insisted they speak only the anglaise at home.) But in reverse. Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia can tell you about Doctrine-family-dinner-conversations can be.

New Readers! (and Cai) ProTip: When we first encounter the Wakefield Doctrine (and it’s three personality types), first (and most fun) step it to learn the characteristics of clarks, scotts and rogers. However this can lead to confusing the characteristics with the personal reality(s). The Doctrine is very much not about fitting categories of personal traits and such. You know (if you’re old enough) the Sunday Supplement/section of the magazine after the ‘cont’d from’ but before the back-cover. (Earn $$$ while you Sleep!! Passive Income from the Internet. Too Slowwww? New Super-charged system FREE!) “Honey? I found a personalty survey and it has you to a ‘T’ Come on, take the Quiz.”

Well, the Doctrine, once you have the basics down, is easier than that! We’re not concerned with traits and foibles, interests and obsession, tropisms and phobias. We don’t even care if you take the test. (Which we actually have one…of. lol on the Landing Page. Right in the Middle. Courtesy of being ‘convinced’ by Christine to create a quiz. Back in the day.)

This is the cool thing about the Doctrine. We’re concerned more with the character of the personal reality the person lives in. More precisely, the (personal reality) world that they grew up and developed in. What we focus on? The individual’s relationship to the world.

You grow up in the reality of the Outsider, knowing you are different, suspecting there’s something wrong, determined to discover what everyone else already knows? Guess what? You’re a clark. (etc with the other two). The neat thing is we can say, much to the laughter and delight of Readers (who’ve done their homework lol) that you… that’s right ‘YOU’ have a ‘perfect’ personality type. (Some restrictions and conditions may apply. Read the fine print).

So, when wondering about the other person, (or ourselfs), ask this very simple question: Which of the three relationships do they/I seem to have with the werld.

Back to our original theme, ‘the Everything Rule’. The preferred terminology is ‘manifest’ e.g. How does the quality of ‘curiosity manifest in the three personality types?

curiosity is for

clarks: a drive to learn the unknown, the search for (meaning/happiness/becoming) in order to become a ‘real’ person
scotts: why not? life is not about practicing the skills of the hunter, life is about being the hunter
rogers: an affirmation of the Rightness of the world

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 12, 2025 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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. Established in 1975 as a mimeographic-newsletter, this bloghop is the simplest form of spiritualism available without a purple-heart from a parochial education or a graduate degree in coed college dorm with a focus on blacklight reflection and macramé deconstructionism.

Following is the list of grats we would offer, available for identification purposes and general R&R.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) hypo-grats. (In two-parts) Hypo-grats are a valid experience qualifying for inclusion in one’s TToT list. It is, imo, a perspective that helps our little ‘hop stand out in an addmittedly crowded, (if not somewhat… ‘we-get-it-you’ve-memorized-your-multiplication-tables-but-math-is-not-rote sorta way), field of Gratitude Bloghops. Be that as it may, a hypograt is a person, place, thing or event that would, on first blush, appear to be a bad thing, something you’d just as soon forget and move on from. But, and here we would defer to a certain hostinae an opportunity presents itself. To us all.

7) (hypo-grats cont’d) Example:

We decided to sign up for free seminar at a local liberry: ‘Self-Publishing and Making a Career Writing Fiction’. First session was Tuesday past. Unsurprisingly, the moderator did the ‘Lets go around the table and introduce ourselves’ thing. Small group, the Librarian and three young women. We spoke last, (yeah, shocker that). The preceding three writers-to-be: opened with the anticipated: “I’ve been writing since I was 6yo/ even as a little girl I wrote stories/I can barely remember…”

When it got around to us we said, “I’ve been writing since 2009. For some reason, at that time, I found myself with a blog about a personality theory with three types, it’s called the Wakefield Doctrine. As part of trying to share it with as many people as possible I got involved with various online platforms like the Facebook and such. Almost immediately the thought came to me, “Shit! These people around me, they really write good. So I began to write as much as a I could.”

8) forbidden and surely toxic scents, smells and odors:

mimeograph ink
airplane glue (way before many Reader’s time it was available in the model car section of the drugstore (ikr?)
diesel fumes (the ‘hello, welcome back! no, you’re not too old’ when walking the docks lined with commercial fishing boats)
magic marker smells (still legal, right? toll of surviving diminished olfactory sense)
one’s own socks (for a certain length of time) (come on, we won’t call you out in the Comments)
rotting fish …and last and most challenging!
the smell of wet hair, under a towel after coming out of the water at the beach on a hot August afternoon

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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