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December 17, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

There was a time when Saturday was the best day of the weekend…no, make that the best day of the whole week. Saturday was a day off from school and work and, unlike the other weekend day…Sunday, there were no specified and/or required activities. Now that did not mean there was nothing to do! Saturday was a day filled with chores, tasks, projects, lunch without napkins, using the bathroom (indoors or out) without asking permission…in other words a busy day, but in a way that you hoped (your) adult life would be when you grew up. Looking back, there was an odd…symmetry, orderliness…something about the Saturdays I remember, that I would love to have back.
…the day always started in front of the TV. And it was not ‘today’s weather is brought to you by…” or “today’s Top Scary Story…” (hell! in those days there were no news shows on until Sunday morning!)
Saturday mornings were all about the cartoons! And maybe some live action shows mixed in as we got older…and there was always, without fail, TV-time spent with a very famous trio… the Stooges! and not the ones with Shep…(those episodes were somehow too …organized, logical or something that tried to have the stories make sense…which to a 5 year old is so unnecessary!)
Breakfast on the couch or the living room floor… ( that was the right way to start the weekend! )
Later in the morning, once the adults were up… there were almost always chores assigned to family members, but even these required tasks were nothing like the rigid, regimented ‘task-specific hour followed by task-specific hour’ of the weekdays.
Saturdays were fun.

This Post is not about the non-work, non-school free activity of Saturdays. It is more about the ‘centering of the day’ that my memory of Saturday seems to hold. The Saturdays that I remember, while (mostly) un-structured and generally without a rigid schedule always contained a definite focal point. (And this is where things get odd). When I look back on my memories of Saturdays, it seems that the focal point of the day, all the daytime activities were, somehow, centered on my parents ‘going out for the evening’.
This is odd, if for no other reason than the fact that my parents ‘went out for the evening’ maybe 2 or 3 times in the entire year. But that is where my memory of Saturday takes me. That and ‘stopping by the dry cleaners’. Now that we all live in the advanced and evolved future that is the 21st Century we can be grateful that langauge has advanced to include an expression that is perfect for this point in today’s Post…WTF?
Seriously! Why should I have ‘stopping at the dry cleaners’ as the primary childhood memory artifact in my brain right now? And…and it’s not just me!
Stop reading…go to ‘the google’ and in the search box type in ‘Saturday Chores’ and then search ‘Images’
See what I mean? …sure there are a lot of different images, lots of mowing lawn photos and raking leaves but count the photos of dry cleaners! And all the cute photos of Post-it notes on the refrigerator…. what item is on all those Post-it notes?… (yeah, I know it is a little creepy…they are so messing with our minds).
But that is what I have for childhood memories of Saturdays. A day where life is not a test…where what we do is not being graded…a day that does not have to be assessed in terms of ‘did I get everything I wanted to do done”?

And this is about the Wakefield Doctrine, how?
lol
…when I started writing this Post, ‘the Point’ was going to be about how you should call in tonight to the Saturday Night Drive Live Blog Post show… (the secret phone number is here somewhere, or just write us a Comment or ask one of the others… DS#1 or Molly or if you have the nerve… Ms AKH.)
But as often happens, the topic changes on it’s own somehow by the time I get down here at the end of the Post.

Now I am thinking what does the imaginary Saturday depicted above tell us about the Wakefield Doctrine’s use today, right now…in our lives? (Quick bullets points…)

To get the most out of today/Saturday:

let the scott out to play
look to your clarklike aspect, to think of things to do
know that you have a rogerian side to your personality and that is this part of you that will get the chores done and enjoy doing them
send the clark-part of your personality to keep an eye on your scottian side…clarks know how scotts think and scotts know that they do and will listen to a clark so more than to a roger
…there is a Three Stooges show on somewhere…find it…watch it… let them start your day off the right way

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Video Friday Episode 29 “Theres a Eclipse a comin’ Emily! best get them horses in the barn”

December 9, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Video Friday, with 1 1/2 hours to spare! We realise that we could have Posted this tomorrow (and call it Video Saturday…or just have a Video on a Post that happens to be Saturday…instead of Friday…but then, that would be crazy!)

So rather than try to come up with a full Post, watch today’s Vid and if you have any questions, write us a Comment!

…some threes…

The Three Stooges: Moe (roger), Larry (clark) and Curly (scott)

The Wizard of Oz: the Scarecrow (clark), the Tin Man (roger) and the Cowardly Lion (scott)

Casablanca: Rick (scott), Victor Lazlo (roger) and Ilsa (clark)

Star Wars: Luke Skywalker (roger) Princess Leia (roger) and Hans Solo (roger) and the gay sounding robot? C-3PO (roger)…Chewbacca finally (scott) …Yoda (roger!) R2D2 (clark) damn!

WestSide Story (?!) Maria (clark), Tony (roger) and Bernado (scott)

Well, that about wraps up another Video Friday….remember tomorrow is Saturday which can only mean one thing! The Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive! Call us…if you have the:

(the) balls
(a burning) desire
nothing better to do
a long and lonely night stretching out
an insatiable curiosity
manic streak
temporary lapse in the effectiveness of your medications… (‘drug holiday’)
a question that no one you know can answer
a growing anger at the world around you that makes you want to laugh as you tear up your old journals

So tomorrow between 8:00 and 8:45 pm EST go to your phone and dial this number: 218-339-0422
This number is to somewhere in Idaho, the conference call facility that we use, the cost of the call will be whatever your phone plan charges for long distance at night…usually hardly anything at all…a couple dollars, less than you’ll spend buying drinks, trying to get the courage to talk to that person that you know is so out of your league, but what the hell you are here…they are here…. buy her/him a drink and then you can both call us….damn that’s it!! the first genuinely new, novel, sincere-sounding (you know how much girls love sincere-sounding pickup lines!)

“Hello there! I am a participant in an international live blog show, would you care to join me as I call my associates?” How cool will that be? and not to worry…when you call in there will be scotts and clarks and even rogers available…we will so back your move!

…ok you dialed that number? the lovely voice will talk to you and then you must enter an access code, which is 512103 and then you hit the pound sign ( #) ….and you are there…”surrounded by Wakefield”

see ya tomorrow

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…after all is said and done, what’s in a name? the 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine ( 3 labels account for all!!)

November 29, 2011 By clarkscottroger

Welcome!

Mickey Rourke a clark?¹
Prince a clark?
Kristen Stewart a clark? ( well, that was kinda easy….just go look at this video)

And what’s with the term ‘clarklike female’? After all, the Doctrine is gender neutral and you do call (the others) scottian women and rogerian females… why the weird name for the…wait… nah, never mind.

( No! We are not reluctant to answer the question, that is, after all, how we all learn… well, clarks and rogers in any event.)

The answer, with any luck, will prove to be both simple and obvious

a group or multiple scotts results in a pack
more than one roger gathering together? clearly a herd!
2 or 3 or more clark…… results in a… what was the question? (hey they were right here a minute ago!…was there always a floor lamp over there?…wait a minute…

Hopefully that answers the question to everyone’s satisfaction.

scotts are very, very easy to identify…when you see them, chances are they are already watching you! And if you are up for it, take a good look at them, (preferably when their attention is on someone else) there is no mistaking the gaze, the alertness, they are paying attention. (Go back to the Kristen Stewart video thing above, this time focus on Kelly instead of Kristen)

rogers are not too difficult to spot, given that there are more of them than the other two types ( in any given situation)…besides you cannot help but to run into the roger wherever you happen to be…it is not enough for a roger to gather in a herd…they must find people who are not of the herd in order to get maximum enjoyment from the rogerian experience… now these ‘others’ will be of 2.5 other categories clarks and scotts male and female² and depending on (which) the roger will cause their herd to either interfere with the clarks ( like the old joke we all loved when we first learned to drive…you know, “Hey want a ride?” just as they reach for the door handle, jump the car ahead… lol now that I remember that it is pretty funny) anyway thats sort of what a roger and their herd will try to do to a clark…now if it happens to be a scott entering the room then…er… think more…. well better you go here and seee for yourself! Lunch is served!

clarks are interesting…they have a natural affinity for the company of scotts and a weakness for the charm of rogers…as to spotting a clark, well that’s another matter, if the clark does not wish to be noticed, then you are plain out of luck! You won’t.. but then again with patience you will see the proof (of the statement about clarks) that they do not want to be the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored. clarklike females are second only to scotts as being easy to spot… with clarklike non-females** (lol) it is a little more work, but all you have to do is listen to the conversation going on in the gathering… “we cannot directly know anything is real, but then again it doesn’t matter, because all this is imaginary in the first place…” ( that sort of thing, along with the sound of scottian laughter and footfalls of the fleeing rogers )

1) you need to go back to the Post (something about Warning Labels…never mind just click here) click on the ‘Leave your hat On’ video and watch Mickey’s performance in it, hint: watch the demeanor, not literally what he seems to be doing ( Molly! ) can you get the sense of how he seems to be relating to the world?

2) admittedly kind of an inside joke, best go ask DS#1 or (if you have the nerve) Ms AKH

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“…and before my friends find out, I’ll be on the road” …the Wakefield Doctrine and friends

November 25, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

This is a photo of my friend Bernadine Thomas and me (your Humble Narrator), taken about 10 years ago. Bernadine died unexpectedly a couple of years ago.

(As often happens with clarks and scotts) it was nearly love at first sight with Bernadine*. Simply was one of those clark/scott things. I met Bernadine when she came to work at a market and credit research company – I was experimenting with having a ‘real job’ in the ‘real world’. The company I worked for had their offices in Providence, on Westminster Street, and most important (to my story here) was that I worked in one of those cubicle workstation things, at my desk from 9-5, Monday through Friday, calling manufacturing companies all over the world, trying to get them to give me information about their use of raw materials. In other words, it was a very rogerian work environment, but one in which a clark could ‘pass’ as an employee. I had been working there for about 6 months when Bernadine was hired and moved into a nearby cubicle.

To set the stage for my meeting Bernadine, picture an entire floor of an office building with the front of the floor (at the windows) being divided into three offices for the owners of the Company and the rest of the space taken up with clusters of cubicles. These were ‘open clusters’ which meant you could spin your chair to the 2 other people in your cluster or, with a little extra push, be out in the aisle where you could see what was going on in the rest of the office.   On one wall, located in the middle of the office was the elevator and directly across was the main conference room, which had glass walls on three sides (windows on the 4th wall) and a large conference table in the middle. Totally visible from all the cubicles…think of TV with the Mute on.
I will never forget the day that Bernadine came to interview for a job, as the interview was held in the conference room. (It will help to know that the demographic of the Company was typical for the industry (and) for our part of the country, i.e. mostly female and nearly all white…not counting the Asian guy in IT).  Bernadine, as characteristic of all scotts, not only had ‘presence’, but being a large woman,  the minute she walked into the conference room, it was obvious to all of us that she was totally owning that room. Keep in mind, no one could hear the conversation that was going on in the conference room, except that is, when Bernadine laughed. As with scotts ( male and female), when Bernadine laughed you noticed! (…her’s was not one of those annoying, odd or quirky laughs), when she laughed it was full, un-restrained… totally without reservation or pre-requisite…simply enjoying herself.
Bernadine was hired.
As we got to know each other, I began to tell Bernadine about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. Bernadine made a lasting contribution to the Wakefield Doctrine. One afternoon, I asked her about the ‘dominance thing’. I told her about how scotts will always challenge everyone in the immediate environment, in order to establish the ranking order. But then I asked Bernadine a direct question, ‘What happens when you are not the dominant one?” Bernadine’s response was simple, ‘Nothing happens! It’s not a bad thing to be second in ranking! And…and…are you listening to me?  It isn’t ‘better’ to be the alpha! All that matters is that we know where we stand ‘ This was a revelation that not only added to my understanding of scotts but reinforced my understanding of the fact that we all live in slightly different realities. As a clark, the concept of not being at the top could be nothing but a negative thing, it simply never could occur to me.

(Two experiences that tell you a lot about Bernadine and all about scotts…)

Bernadine’s cubicle was in the cluster (of cubicles) adjacent to the one that I worked in with another market analyst, by the name of Charlie; a young kid, just out of college, smart, and competent but Charlie had a habit of sleeping at his desk in the afternoon. One afternoon Charlie awoke from his after-lunch nap, loudly grumbling about how much work he had to do and for reasons still unknown, I said in a fairly loud voice, “…It’s been a long winter, and Mr Charlie is starting to wake, while things have changed since the Autumn, one thing is still true..he is hungry…and surely will need to get out of the burrow” (I was, of course, hearing the classic Disney Nature Film Narrator voice in my head).
The immediate and unmistakeable peals of laughter coming over the cubicle wall on Bernadine’s side were worth it all. It was at this moment we became friends.

The second experience came at the end of my employment at that company.

I was called into the office of my (rogerian) boss late one Friday afternoon. He did all the talking and it was mostly about him and his difficult responsibilities and how I surely must understand how it was that he had to let me go. And, being a roger of major proportions he assumed that I would be embarrassed to inform my co-workers of my imminent departure. He asked me if I wanted him to make up a reason that would explain my not working there anymore or did I want to make up a reason…
I said, ‘No thank you, I will take care of it, first thing Monday morning’. He seemed satisfied with this plan and I left the office and went home (by this time it was past ‘quitting time’).
When I got home, the totality of what had happened finally began to sink in, (I have mentioned that I am a clark, haven’t I?), and I decided that I needed to call Bernadine. (This was noteworthy, as while we were workfriends, we did not socialize outside of the office. I had never before called her at her home.)
But call I did.
After the surprise of, “Hi Bernadine, this is Clark…from work, you know? wore off, Bernadine asked, ‘What’s wrong?” My response was simply, “They fuckin let me go today”

Bernadine’s next words were, “Alright. Tell me exactly what happened. And, don’t leave anything out!”

I still miss Bernadine, she was such a scott.

1) love being defined (by a clark) as ” this person not only is not suspicious of me and/or my behavior…they seem to actually enjoy my company!”

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self-improvement! good god!! what is it good for (unnh!!) absolutely nothin*

November 17, 2011 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!
We are genuinely glad you could stop by and take a look at this thing of ours. Today we have a short, quick Post for you, because tomorrow is Video Friday and at the moment I have nothing but an odd idea (for the video) and that’s it.
No, truth be told, I have more than that! I have the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ) and that gives me a ‘tool’, a ‘resource’ and ‘place to stand’

Since I brought it up, what do I mean when I refer to (the Wakefield Doctrine) as a ‘tool’, a ‘resource’ and ‘a place to stand’? I will be glad to tell you, but before we do that, a quick, block-quoted overview of the Wakefield Doctrine for the new Reader.

The Wakefield Doctrine is based on the idea that all people are born with the potential to experience the world in one of the three characteristic ways and that at an early age we ‘settle on’ one of these (3) ways and go on to live and experience the world as: a clark, a scott or as a roger. Predominately one of the three, we never lose the capacity to see the world as the other two types would. (This is why many people, when introduced to the Doctrine, will say, “I know I must be a roger, but sometimes I act like a scott! ) As a ‘personality theory’, the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that it is not a collection of self-reported traits, habits, likes/dislikes…favorite colors…zodiacal influences, none of these are essential to understanding the behavior of people. The Doctrine simply says that some people live among us as outsiders, other people that you may encounter today live in the world as predators and an awful lot of the people you may bump into today are experiencing the world as if they were a member of a vast herd; this is the key to understanding the behavior of the people in our lives. With this unique, useful and fun view of human interaction, not only will you finally be able to answer that most frustrating of lamentations, “Why on earth would they go and do something like that? I really thought I knew them better!”
The Wakefield Doctrine is one of the most useful and efficacious and totally effective approaches to self-development. The Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral and culture neutral. The Wakefield Doctrine is easy to learn, completely fun to use and will help you get whatever it is that you think you need to get from Life.

Back to today’s topic… you know that there are three types of people reading this, right? clarks: who get this Doctrine-thing right off the bat; scotts: (who) understand it pretty quickly, but throw most of it away and only keep the parts with an edge and/or are shiny and rogers: who understand and have an initial enthusiasm but then unfortunately, they look around, see the lack of a crowd or an Official Endorsement or a scott and they let it drop out of their hands. Well the thing about the ‘use’ of the Doctrine is as follows:

tool the Wakefield Doctrine will allow you to understand the other person in your life. Note that we did not say ‘agree’ or ‘get comfortable’ we said understand. The reason that you will be able to understand the other person is that you will be able to figure out if they are a clark or a scott or a roger, unless the person you are trying to understand is the same type as you, you will then have a perspective, you will see the differences in the world they are experiencing compared to your own.
resource: contrary to what most scotts say and many rogers infer (in private) there is always room to self-improve ourselfs
a place to stand: a reference to Archimedes…made sense at the beginning of the Post, now…not so much

In conclusion, we invite you to join us, if you are sociable and/or hungry (literally or figuratively) then go and visit one of the DownSprings or FOTD’s sites!! Lets see now… pour un appétit comme la vôtre, peut je recommande:

scotts: start over at DS#1’s site and then maybe Alex’s and finally to pour nettoyer le palais maybe Molly’s blog or Alexandra’s
rogers: AKH is where you need to start, then DownSpring glenn’s and finally the roger’s blog ( yeah, I know)
clarks: lol whatever…try to remember where you have been