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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 11, 2022 By

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s eight thousand ninety-third post in Lizzi’s Ten Things of Thankful(TToT) bloghop. If you’re new to the blogosphere, a ‘bloghop’ is a type of participatory writing…thingie. Surprising or not, our friend-who-knows-stuff-and-doesn’t-mind-passing-notes-when-Sister-Catherine-is-distracted, Wikipedia, doesn’t provide a particularly simple definition. All we have are ‘bloggers’ (‘bloggers motto: “Hey! Everyone with a computer only bought the device because the sales person promised it would allow them to read the semi-random thoughts of people, including, especially including, those who feel the editorial ‘we’ is so clearly a humble voice to use when ranting about reality, music videos and stream-of-couscous, knew they had to read every day!‘) posting their own definitions (probably at three-in-the-morning on September ‘Gotta Come up with Someteenth’.

But enough about them chefs and cooks and their assistants on the far-side of the swinging doors. For our entré

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop (there!! see! what we talked about in the intro? there’s one of them rascals right here.)

5) serial story writing, the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf

6) the internet, in general, (for a clark it’s like the biggest used book/new magazine store possible) and the blogosphere, in particular, (it’s like the perfect Halloween Evening)

7) Vicari-Grat*: Phyllis’ and her penchant for doing fun things, despite how (or because of) how many of us have thought to slow down. (photo from one of her most recent moonrise swims at Narragansett Town Beach)

8)something, something

9) Field of Weeds. (Don’t mow it and they will grow….)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 which states, in part, [“…just getting to, like, Grat Number Seven, ya gotta be grateful for that…. but save it for Number 10”] op. cit. ibid and e pluribus unum

 

* vicarious gratitude…. “We’re glad you shared your fun with others..”

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Now, it’s no secret we’re fans of Queen. We listen often (and post here, on the weekend, not infrequently). Thing of it is, while we knew the title of this song, we can’t say we know the song. Kinda fun tuneage.

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Montewsday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 6, 2022 By

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

Alert Reader writes: “I read your blog. Well, a lot of it. There were some posts clearly on the indulgent side. OK, but I did read: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. I also read the part that said (countless times, in barely different contexts):

‘We are all born with the capacity to experience the world from three distinct perspectives: that of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers) but we all settle into one and only one of these three and develop our social strategies from there, but never lose the potential to experience the world as do the other two.’

And, I would swear I read that ‘If the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine are understood and properly applied, I will be in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.’ Well, not to indulge in citing semi-obscure lines from popular movies, but, ‘that’s a bold statement!’

We thank the Reader for trying to jumpstart our Post, this post-holiday Tuesday.

But the Doctrine does put a person in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves, provided the person in question is not, themselves already in possession of an understanding of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine.

Here’s a quick insight:

Anyone who comes back to this blog more than twice, in response to a small voice that whispers, ‘Wait a darn minute! Did they really say that?’ is either a predominant clark or a scott (or a) roger with a strong secondary clarklike aspect.

It’s true!

(Granted, that was being kinda cruel. To the scotts and the rogers. Secondary aspects are a little tricky to perceive and the predominant aspect is, in fact, the reality in which the person exists, i.e. the real reality. For a predominant clark, it’s easy peasy. The fact of the matter is, to a clark, even on first visit, there is a sense of …familiarity. It’s not the structural or even organizational elements that they respond to, it’s the goal; the goal all clarks are possessed by is to make sense of the world around them.

The cool thing about clarks who come here? Nine times out of eight, once they get the ‘it’s the nature/character/quality of the relationship of the individual to the world around them that makes everything hold together’ part, they can, (and usually do), extrapolate an awful lot of the rest. That’s why, if you read this blog long enough, you will see Readers who show up, then begin to make observations that imply they’ve read all Twenty-six hunnert posts. And you know, given the fun they seem to be having, that they surely didn’t slog through all dem posts.

lol

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine, y’all!

 

(here, as implied elsewhere, the music vid to support a needlessly obscure joke reference)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 29, 2022 By

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

We did mention that the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for self-improving oneself, did we not?

Sure we did.

At the risk of leaving ourselfs open to the totally wonderful, (wish we’d thought of it), observation, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.” (Maslow sorta) we will remind New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

Enough with the ‘…for now, refer to the syllabus you were given at the start of the class’.

The word ‘perspective’ is also a clue to the (intended) use of the principles of the Doctrine for change and development. The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that …

oh dip!* I’ve missed the early morning train to Insightsville! damn**

Be sure to check back tomorrow, we promise to offer useful information and practical applications of this most wonderful of personality ‘theories’.

Note: New Readers? If your first thought is:

“What the hell! I paid tuition. Well, I paid with my time, clicking here… ya know?!!? Though I gotta say the preliminaries are, no offense, pretty obvious. In fact, based on the most fundamental descriptions of the three personality types and the role of how a person relates themselves to the world around them (yeah, pretty clever, inserting that ‘themselves’ in to the more common, ‘how we relate to the world’ adds an entirely personal dimension to the equation) and a couple of other things like ‘personal reality’ and that initially way-weird ‘Everything Rule’ (in the last installment we actually heard Cameron (a total clark) on the wonderful internet video series BlackTail Studio state the Everything Rule, nearly word-for-word). I’ll just go ahead and do some self-study.”

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. You got this.

 

the Wakefield Doctrine: ‘you’re already practicing the core Principles, you might as well get something for all your efforts’ (…yeah, even some fun!)

March 25, 2013

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

The reason we say,  you’re already practicing the Principles is that, as a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine does not start with a person answering questions, filling out a survey or questionnaire, reporting likes and dislikes, lying about weaknesses and strengths, exaggerating the things others like and hate about us. No. In a funny, you-guys-really-are-weird kind of way the Wakefield Doctrine doesn’t really care what the individual thinks their personality (type) should or could or might be. Nope. This here personality theory here does not need to know that.
…as a matter of fact! You don’t even need to involve the person that you are about to know (better, in a way) than they know themselves. You see, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

But I’m getting ahead of us. We’ll come back to this ‘you mean I can know my boyfriend’s, my Teacher’s, my wife’s, my boss’s, my kid’s personality types and I don’t need to ask them to help?’ in just about a paragraph. First, the Principles that the Title of today’s Post says you are already practicing.

The Wakefield Doctrine is all about how a person relates themselves to the world around them. Notice the odd wording, I did not say, ‘how a person relates to the world‘. Because that’s only one dimension, in a sense a description of  what happens as the person goes about their life. We say, ‘how the person relates themselves to the world around them’ because it is not simply a choice (about how to act, what to do, how to feel about it), it is reality. What we refer to as a worldview.
In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all live in a personal reality, aka our worldview. This means that my reality is different from yours. No, nothing weird… no screaming vegetables, nothing shooting across the sky, no flying without the help of technology, but different nonetheless. And it is the way our worldviews differ that we find the value and utility in our personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience the world from one of three ‘perspectives’, living in one of three worldviews, if you will. And what most people call ‘personality types’, we know as the appropriate behavior, given the world that a person finds themselves experiencing. (Remember!  personal reality as in ‘real’ and ‘reality’  not  “just ’cause you felt like it, or I think I will choose to act like this, she deserves it….”) The three characteristic worldviews are:

  1. the reality of the Outsider (clarks)  not ‘because’, not ‘well, you should speak up more’, and definitely not ‘well if you didn’t act so weird, people would get to know you and  you would have an easier time in life’  this reality is simply one in which you are here and ‘the world’ is out there. (For our clarklike Readers this last statement is sufficient, the rogers and the scotts might nod and look understanding, but will never get it)
  2. the world of the Predator (scotts) of the three personality types, scotts can be the easiet to deal with- they are energetic and active, enthusiastic and mercurial helpful and very dangerous… the saying here is: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel’.  scotts are the life of the party and the reason the police get called, scotts are your best friend until someone who they look up to shows up and then your life will be miserable , scotts are the neighbor who will lend you anything in his garage and help build your deck without asking and she is the neighbor with the well-behaved kids (at least they are when she is around, when she is not….ayiieee!), scottsare fun and tiring, loyal and seductive  you have at least one scottian friend
  3. the world as seen by a member of the Herd (rogers) are the reason we have civilization and they are the reason we have repressive societies. they are the personality type that lives in a world of emotion… not just moods and feelings, but where clarks think things and scotts act out, rogers manipulate emotion, in themselves and in the people around them. Ever encounter someone who makes you feel comfortable talking?  ...roger  know anyone at work who is always in the center of things and knows all about everyone?… roger ever find your husband/wife…boyfriend/girlfriend  acting like they had no idea that you had a life outside the relationship?  lol roger  there is a saying around here: without rogers humanity would still be out on the savannah with the scotts roaming in packs, feeding on the giant herds of rogers while the clarks dart among the low underbrush in a desperate attempt to stay alive long enough to invent opposable thumbs

These three worldviews are the ‘core principles’ of the Doctrine that you are already practicing.

Back to the Practical Value….and how you don’t need to involve the ‘other person’ and how this Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

Today. Observe the people in your life. Infer which of the three worldviews they appear to be acting from, test this against the descriptions of each of the three personality types that you will find throughout this blog. Once you know which the other person is, you will know why they are doing the things that they are and because you know this, you will have the choice of how you would respond, how you feel about what they do, how to shape the message if you need to get them to do what you want. In other words, you will have more freedom of choice than they do.

 

* one of the best ‘tv shows’ available on the internets, ‘Good Place’ we totally recommend it.

** yeah, here… all too often

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…as random as we could make it, accepting the fact that random is an illusion.”

August 15, 2022 By

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

Here’s a post we found by spinning the wheel on only on Month/Year but on the posts within the selected month.

The year was 2011. The month was June. The day was Saturday.

(Because, when you get right down to it, when you go rummaging through your memory further than the current calendar year, if it ain’t Monday, it’s Saturday.)

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

To all of the new Readers we see comin ’round the Doctrine, we want to extend a three-pronged Wakefield Welcome (better write and ask one of the DownSprings what the hell that means).
Today we will get all basic-elementary Doctrine for y’all.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool and (is) a toy for people with a certain outlook on Life.  If you are the kind of person who:

  • wonders if the things on the news are ever just made up (for the sake of the ratings)
  • hates it when someone who pretends to be a friend to a person when there are others around, but tends to get mean in private
  • thinks that there should be a way to make sense of the behavior of friends and family
  • has the most fun, when out with friends, starting the game of ‘people watching’
  • …is the person (at work or school) that everyone comes to to confide a secret to
  • …is the person that everyone looks to when things are getting dull and there needs to be a party
  • …the person everyone comes to when there is a complicated problem that needs un-raveling

then the Wakefield Doctrine is for you.

Not a stuffy old theory that you take a test for or have to have some one explain to you and not a ‘use once and the fun is gone, like a piece of gum’, the Doctrine is a way of looking at the world and getting something back. Our  theory of clarks, scotts and rogers will let you know that you have an advantage when you are around strangers, our Doctrine will let you have more fun with your friends, this thing that we do here will answer at least one of the questions that you have been struggling with, the question, “why on earth would he/she do something like that? I thought I knew them better than that’!

Even though we will now tell you the whole secret of the Wakefield Doctrine, we assure you that it does not mean that you can go out and use it, play with it, teach it to your friends or otherwise get everything of value, just ’cause we told you the whole secret! We know that this is true because we know 2 things that you, the new Reader, does not know:

  1. the Doctrine addresses 3 aspects of your personality, (the one that you think you are and the other two that would tell you otherwise)
  2. even though your think you understand the Doctrine right away ( we’re looking at you scott! ) and think you have it figured out ( don’t look away, clark) and you are sure this is nothing worth your time ( roger!) it is…

The thing about the Doctrine. The fun part and the exciting part. Those of us you see coming here (look to the right for that sidebar that shows locations), again and again are learning more about the use of the Doctrine every day. We are the glowing French rats, the ones that Marie thought had died, we are running through and around the sewers of Paris, glowing like hell and scaring the everyday people.
We welcome you to join us, if you have what it takes to stop being such ‘ups’ and start being cool.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…the single most useful fact about the Wakefield Doctrine?’

August 8, 2022 By

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

“the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.”

 

(Yeah, to the Reader out there who just thought, “Are they gonna leave it at that? whooa*” if we ever do docTees, bring a copy of your comment to this post and it’s yours.)

 

* a Bill and Ted whoa, not a Slim Pickens ‘whoa’

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