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Mandag -the Wakefield Doctrine- take 2 (thanks to zoe for spotting problem go to her site…now! (the Link is in this Post)

February 16, 2015 By

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

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Started the day with a bit of a quote remanent, ‘there is nothing new under the sun‘ hoping that that would limit that part of my brain that is endlessly creative with the things to worry about, but then I completed the quote* in my head and totally swapped it for some Shakespeare  ‘there are more things in heaven and earth’  because, how much worse could that be?**

A Note to scottian and rogerian Readers: yes, that is what it’s like inside our head(s) when the day starts for clarks. And, not that it needs to be stated more clearly, consider this: when a clark wakes/stops worrying/inexplicably finds herself in a light hearted mood/discovers the very bad news is only mildly disquieting/accepts the invitation to be friends with a person/reaches the bottom of the emotional abyss in fact, everything/every-time except for when we discover that we’ve fallen in love/see love coming from another, un-prompted/totally surrender…  a clark thinks   ‘I’m here and the world is out there’.
thats the difference between a clark and a scott and a roger***

*** thanks go to zoe for catching and mentioning a problem that hopefully is fix… do me a favor?  go to zoe/ivy’s site and thank her for me.***

(from a few years ago)

Yes, the Wakefield Doctrine does have a very practical value to all you Readers out there who are currently Students or may be Students or are planning to become Students!

In today’s Post we will present the Wakefield Doctrine in a form that will allow you to get the most from your experience in the classroom, no matter if it is a College-level course: Introduction to the Peloponnesian Wars or a High School ‘Health’ Class,  the Wakefield Doctrine can help. Today. Right Now!

Let’s focus on the environment found in High School, simply because this is where the Doctrine will provide the most dramatic and immediate relief and or help for Readers of that age/milieu  (big props for any of you who are in High School and are reading this here blog here.)

The Teachers:

clarks:

  • if they are clarklike females then they will be found teaching the elementary grades, if male then most likely college level teaching
  • in high school the teacher that betrays the ‘Code of Teachers’ and shows a side of themselves that makes it clear that they are ‘real people’
  • if watched closely, (the clarklike Teacher) will be caught laughing at the antics of the class clown ( the scott, of course) but still give him detention
scotts:
  • if a scottian male, then they are the shop teacher or gym teacher (Mother of God! what are the authorities thinking!!)
  • if  a scottian female then the French Teacher… if not (attractive) …so the phys ed  teacher
  • the scottian female Teacher,  is also the mostly likely name to appear on the boy’s room wall (but who’s ‘honor’ will be vociferously defended) if anyone ( a roger ) makes a wisecrack about her
rogers:
  • if a rogerian male, then the science teacher, if female then the School Nurse
  • most of the History Department ( except for the clark they let in for distraction value)
  • Health class, Personal Hygiene Civics Class and/or head of the Cafeteria staff
The Students:
clarks:
  • the one who makes the ‘wisecrack’ that everyone laughs at in class but no one is sure who said it?
  • the girl that is admired by the Teachers and  the Senior Classmen (and someone said she was going out with a college kid)
  • you will, if you watch quietly from the side, see clarks everywhere, but never by themselves (if they are by themselves, you won’t see them)
scotts:
  • you’re kidding, right?  if we need to tell you how to spot the scotts in your high school, then you need to… go back to grade school!  lol
  • the two guys who get into a fight, right in the middle of the cafeteria? (and are the best of friends after the fight is over)..scotts
  • the girl who is totally the center of almost everything…and if she happens to get straight As nobody seems to remember that fact?
rogers:
  • most of the population, easily 45 damn percent…rogers!  they’re all over the frickin place
  • (most) of the members of every team or any sport or activity that requires the individual  to totally depend on teammates or coaches
  • the head of every frickin club except the ones that no one joins (thats where you’ll  find the ‘outgoing’ clarks)
Alright, time is up! Everyone put down your pencils but please remain in your seats until  the rogers can collect your test booklets,  do not try to leave until all the test booklets have been collected.
*  from Ecclesiastes 1:9  “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”   shit!
** Hamlet Act I. Scene V   yeah, sure, great line that would totally appeal to a clark, but then he goes on to say:

‘As “Well, well, we know,” or “We could an if we would,”

Or “If we list to speak,” or “There be an if they might,”’
…have I said it already?   shit!
*** no, if you have a sense of it or even sometime think that that’s the best way to approach it, then it’s your secondary aspect talking…. today we’re talking about the worldview itself, not us as individuals,  ya know?
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F -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘a 3 second tale of sadness and hope’

February 12, 2015 By

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(08:11:01 am)  …a grey shape in the road ahead… not clear what, it’s grey about 6 inches longways across  there is much to do at work today… I really hope I can find a way to keep up, there’s tremendous opportunity  in keeping with what I am working 7 days a week to achieve, I know I can do it but I know that thinking as I am about the challenges bring, maybe inevitability though I am personally inclined to say deliberately is the threat of screwing up and losing more than I’m gaining… hey, it’s a dead squirrel, won’t have a problem avoiding it, the traffic is pretty light…must be windy out there, the tail is waving…

(08:11:02 am) …oh fuck, it’s moving (no need to swerve I’ll pass right over it)… the squirrel is not dead (yet) it’s moving, flexing the muscles of it’s body any way it can. (I think),  there’s no sense of terror or even pain in these movements, (no, I can’t say why I feel can make this statement with assurance, but I do), what I get from this brief impression is (that) there is  determination, everything in the movements is shouting, ‘must move’.. it has the nature of  a rippling effect along the torso, so much so, that, what I see is not a squirrel like those we all see, running up a tree …the head and the tail ‘are’ the squirrel for us on every other day, except for today… right now, what I’m witness to is a shape in grey fur, moving with a singleness of purpose to get away from where it was… my stomach hurts, in that non-medical way that clarks feel when coming into direct contact with emotion… and not a ‘memory story’, the tales that play in our heads about the past… no this emotion causes a physical response, a rolling of the stomach that made all the thoughts that I had since waking up, thoughts dealing with my day and my work and how to organize (my day and work)  how to avoid failing… all evaporated…disappeared…without a trace, because all that was in my mind was the feeling of  how awful/how sad

(08:11:03 am)  the rearview mirror shows one more movement. I can see the car behind me swerve …(god, it’s making progress across the road)  but the car after that one is too close to see and swerve and how fuckin hopelessly pointless  and how sad  and yet, I recognize that within me is this difference…maybe only a clark will identify with how, I felt about how I felt,  a sense of powerful quiet, the now-seemingly-frivolous-planning of a day… gone, replaced with this….feeling.   and from that  feeling came the hope. (now this will make no sense to most reading this), the feeling of hope was grounded in the awful feeling that possessed me, with the image of the squirrel’s single-minded effort to simply move, move away. maybe this hope is nothing more than a (momentary) silence,  a quieting of whisper and reminders of fear the fear of failure, the fear of success, the fear of not living.

(08:11:04 am) thank you, Mr or Mrs Squirrel… you have changed my day today…

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘#hashtag… that’s how you use it, correct? …didn’t think so’

February 7, 2015 By

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‘Night Cows’ (apologies to Edward Hopper…or his estate…or fans or whatever)

 

1)  With only a couple of properly placed participles, the statement: ‘appreciating a point in my future allows me to experience today, as does a point in my past, relative to today, can evoke a wistful sense of missed opportunity’

3) You know, when Item 1 popped into my head, I really liked it and raced to a computer, in order to write it down, lest I forget. Coming back to it this morning,  (I wrote it down on, Wednesday…Thursday), I was less enthused. The problem is bifold. I enjoy this writing challenge each weekend (… yes, you’re right,  ‘the-person-who-caught-the-implication-in-that-choice-of-words’ …probably zoe and lizzi, I’ll bet Christine and Dyanne did as well, but they’re too fond of the Doctrine to say anything that might sound cruel…. pretty sure Kristi noticed, but too kind to call me on that) and I get something from the forced ‘reflectionary insight’** that comes from having to write about myself, (as opposed to the Wakefield Doctrine). But here I am, in no small part, because I am the sole co-hostinimus, and it’s the correct thing to do.

4) So lets go with: I’m grateful that I am not (yet) sick with the flu as is Phyllis, who has the flu this week. I did get to have the fun, (this is really a clarklike thing), of being able to suggest something that would help her feel less bad. Phyllis somehow was not aware of the amazing properties of ginger ale!  no, seriously! After my holding forth on the palliative qualities of Canada Dry, she relented so I went to the Stop n Shop at some early morning hour and brought some home. A measure of her inexperience with this particular home remedy,  she tried to drink it at room temperature!!   “non! non! non!!! on ne boit tout simplement pas ce à quoi que ce soit plus de 17 degrés centigrades … !!”  Well, I’m pleased to report that it helped.

5) hey! I got one  and actual Item of gratitude!  In the course of work this week, access was needed to a house, the client was not local and their local resources were not available until too late, so I  got a shovel and dug out the porch (and part of the driveway) myself. (Given the demographic of my industry), it should come as no surprise that the mere suggestion that I was considering doing this,  was met with, ‘wait, your absentee client will make the arrangements eventually. you can’t do that!‘  (of course that last part?… like that convinced me to change my plan  lol ). In any event, I shoveled. Afterwards someone said, ‘are you out of your mind? it’s 17 degrees‘ and I remembered the, (fortunately few), times that I’ve been in the hospital and replied, ‘well, I know for a fact that there’ve been times in my life when I would have given anything to be out there in the snow, (which I hate), shoveling (which I love) instead of where I was, ya know?’  I think they understood.  (I reminded myself immediately to leave the metaphysics out of the workplace, luckily the person I was speaking to was a clark… in fact, rather than let the silence that followed my statement go on too long, I challenged him to admit to knowing what I meant.  (Still need to leave the weird(er) stuff at home or at the Doctrine or here…)

6)  the above, weird as it may sound, has me sneaking up on feeling grateful… that I can remember to think, to feel a certain way, about how I’m getting through a given day.  Thats sorta like gratitude, right?

7) hat!! Wakefield Doctrine hats (“…for your damn head“)…. we have a hat, (one of the last remaining in my current supply), going out to a Reader of the Wakefield Doctrine!!  very fun!  yes, I am totally going to try and make a mystery of it…

8)  hypo-grateful for (allowing myself) to not keep up with technology. The demands of my work are becoming such, that I have had to go and access and (try) to learn to use a lot of the multi-platform…. stuff.  There are incredible tools to coordinate what I do and avoid duplication of effort and, most of all, avoid the dreaded… ‘forgetting the one thing that totally had to be done today’.

9) I am grateful to have the opportunity to write today’s Post and all…

10) 1.3 (you knew I was going for that, didn’t you!)

2) … ok  with that for a start, my better side* is yelling, ‘this time you’ve gone too far!! there’s weird and there’s wtf?!’  

* better side?  (oh that better side… I started out thinking that I would include either: a) a Poll or 2) a video or B) a mixed up List order. Fortunately for you, I am at the bottom of the list… (to enhance your feeling of gratitude lets just say that I was thinking…’hey suppose I figure out this twitter thing that everyone thinks is so good and finish the post by twitter!’  not this week, at any rate.

** faux rogerian expression

 

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Wodin -the Wakefield Doctrine- (…as our demographic changes, it behooves us to adjust, Post-from-Comment Wednesday!)

February 4, 2015 By

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

"…walk the boy, Lassie, walk the boy… like I got nothing better to do"

“…’walk the boy, Lassie, walk the boy’,  like I got nothing better to do”

 

“…So there’s this Roger in my life, (with a strong Scottian aspect), who always asks my Clark for her opinion, because Clarks know a lot about things. But she never opts for my opinion. What’s going on there? Plus I have another little scenario. I’m remembering a party I had at my new house with some neighborhood acquaintances. There was a guy, a member of the Volunteer Fire Department, (rogers right?-rule follower?) As we took the tour, he commented on how I should have this or this or this instead of that. I thought it was unsolicited advice and it annoyed me. This same person wore earplugs at a wedding recently because he thought the music was too loud. So Clark, what is your opinion? (Must be my Rogers talking)?”  (Val ‘My Virtual Vineyard’ )

“…I’m here again. I like to read. And since I am of a Clarkian nature, I am permitted to observe, correct?” ( Jen Kehl ‘Jen Kehl’ )

” …that’s very interesting about the roger-scott dynamic. …as a clark, try to be honest (sometimes to my utter detriment) and perhaps there HAVE been situations where I’ve said that and…it was awful. I said that a couple years ago when I went to a training and I hadn’t been “trained” and they “put me in charge of a group” – I acknowledged that I hadn’t had much training and that I probably didn’t know what I was doing. This is precisely why – I’ve figured out – the roger of the group strong-armed me and totally walked all over me. I was so mad…I didn’t let him have it, though. :P”  (Cynthia  ‘…the ‘tude, of course! ‘ )

We are very fortunate to have outstanding Comments. It’s almost as if they write a got portion of the Posts that you’ll find here! (I believe all of the Commentationers on the Post today are in possession of some form of Official Wakefield Doctrine fashion items… tres cool!) So, …to the Comments!

Hey… running out of time!!  (What to do, what to do? …. did I hear someone say   BULLET POINTS!!!!)*

(As a Reply to All Comments, sub-sections of Comments, inferences, innudenae and ‘my point is as plain as the nose on your face’, …in no particular order**):

  • ‘the Everything Rule’ cautions us to not assume that there is anything in life that is exclusively of one of the three worldviews, instead, we are charged with asking the critical question, ‘how does, (fill in your choice of activity/hope/aspiration/ambition/occupation/avocation/favorite pastime/bad habit or  famous saying), manifest in that person’s predominant worldview?’
  • having said that, there are ‘things in life’ that is more worldview-friendly to one personal reality over ‘the other two’ worldviews, i.e.  rogers make ‘the best’ firefighters, scotts make ‘the best’ cops and clarks… and clarks…. and… lol  (hold on!! it’s there…er  ‘clarks make the best something something …’)
  • there is hope! the Wakefield Doctrine encourages us,  not to become something we are not, but to become more of what we may be… the Doctrine maintains that, while we all grow up and live in one worldview (our predominant worldview), we retain the potential of ‘the other two’
  • …it is not easy….worse! it’s not natural (which is why clarks have a bit of an edge on scotts and rogers when it comes to self-developing ourselfs
  • (giving) un-solicited advice is common with rogers, however the key question is “…exactly how annoyed”  (that’s not phrased precisely as it should be… the everything rule for something this…small?!! absolutely!
  • ‘it annoyed me’:
    • scotts: …what??!  lol fuck you!
    • clarks:  (“what a jerk, doesn’t anyone else hear what a jerk that guy is being…I have half a mind to say something, if I did, it would be…”)
    • rogers: ‘huh… maybe I should help everyone put what this guy is saying into a more useful context, he’s clearly over-stepping his bounds”
  • is this still on? holy smokes! it works!  nested-damn-bullet-points!!
  • clarks are, in fact, sought out for opinion (and, more often, as a sympathetic listener…no matter what the issue or who the person is, clarks listen better than anyone!  now, before you object!  note! I did not say ‘clarks listen…and help/make the speaker feel better/come up with a plan’  just that we listen. (of course, this single trait is beyond price, if I may be so bold… there are times when a person simply needs to speak of things, that’s what clarks do so well.  (the listening, not the speaking…lol)
  • clarks are permitted to observe….hell! we do that by virtue of our reality… the real challenge is in taking what we learn and tricking ourselves into identifying with the people and activities and things that we observe… that’s when the real change, the true benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine are to be found!

 

 

 

* Thank you Christine… not that you really said it, but, had you been in the metaphorical auditorium, there is a better than even chance you would have been yelling,  “Bullet point this sucker so we can get to the payoff… I paid good money to get in here and I want the secret!!”

** hey, If there’s one thing that I think I’m coming to understand about this personality theory business, it’s, ‘trust the Readers to understand, if they don’t then it’s up to them to ask’ (thanks Molly!)

 

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- it’s a theory, it’s a personality type system, it’s fun

January 30, 2015 By

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You know that today is Friday (Day of the Week motto: “what? don’t like my work? well then tell me to go home for the rest of the week, why doncha? yeah, I thought so…“). Consider Friday the zen-iest Day of the Work Week, no pressure because there is an end, not only to the Day, but the whole (Work) Week. Kinda gets you thinking, in a reflectionary way,…well, it does if you’re a clark ( or a post-coital scott….or a pre-prandial roger )

In any event, this has been a good and enjoyable week here at the Wakefield Doctrine. Good Questions, Comments and Discussions. I especially enjoyed the give and take on the Comment Threads… I found myself feeling like I did during the early years of writing this blog, seeing questions (that reminded me of how cool this here Doctrine can be) and writing answers (that let Readers know how fun the application of the principles of this personality theory can be). In fact, let me single out Val and Lisa for bringing up the 2 part question of ‘suppose a scott poses as a scott or a roger poses as a…’  (and) ‘all this is happening at the water cooler at work, with real people I know’. What was the most fun was being able to respond with, (my Reply, edited for the sake of length and a moment to reflect… the Wakefield Doctrine is, in fact, ‘an Open Book Exam’), the following:

water coolers and break rooms (aka a-modern-day Oasis’s in the desert….the-digital-watering holes in the jungle clearing…the-polar-bear-free ice floe in the polar oceans) are among the best of places to observe clarks, scotts and rogers. The reason they are there, (or at least one of the reasons they are), depends entirely on their predominant  worldview…

now, the ‘real’ people you work with and know quite well? Go ahead and stick their heads on the bodies of predators and Herd Members and Outsiders….you know, like leopards and lions, antelope and wildebeests, wombats and (I don’t know, some other odd marsupial)…. that is how we apply the Wakefield Doctrine when we’re in a practical mood!  lol… and the result is the Doctrine at it’s most useful and fun and totally self-regulating…

You might be asking, ‘what? use my imagination and picture people I know as animals as we all stand around the water cooler?!?! Is that what you’re suggesting??! What the hell kind of insightful and useful personalty-type system are you selling here?‘  Allow me one more ‘lol’… that is exactly what we are suggesting. But, wait! hear us out!!
One of the questions posed was ‘what if a scott posed as a roger or a roger posed as a clark or…’ a valid question. It is a good question, if for no other reason than the ‘answer’ provides an illustration of how self-correcting our little personality theory can be, meaning, without having to spend years studying this Doctrine, you can gain insights that are accurate and correct, even when there might be confusion as to a person’s dominant worldview! Now, lets get back to the water cooler at work, and our friends hanging out there.

Sure, among our friends and co-workers, we know some who are aggressive and (others) who prefer to follow the crowd etc… You also know what a lion/leopard/predator is like, how they behave in the wild. (The co-worker who you have pegged as a scott… how do they seem to be carrying it off? (you know, the ‘imagine them as animals at the water cooler, their faces/animal bodies’ exercise) I’ll wager that if they are not a scott… then, as you observe them as ‘the predator at the oasis’… you won’t be able to miss that it (this image) just doesn’t quite fit.  They don’t seem too…convincing (as king of the beasts). So, maybe you just need to put their face on a different animal, I don’t know… how about a howler monkey?

If you attempt this exercise, I will guarantee one thing: a) as of one of three types of animals, each person will totally nail the role, appear natural  and 2) you should try not to laugh too much, as you engage in our little experiment. I guarantee they will not be amused. Wait! I take that back!  (If they catch you doing this), the scotts will laugh along with you, the clarks will be impressed and, depending on your predominant world, might hope to become better friends and the rogers?… well, that will depend on your worldview entirely…. but that’s a whole Post in itself!

Thank you for the fun and insight, y’all

 

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