clarkscottroger | the Wakefield Doctrine

you shoulda been there

January 23, 2011 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers). Your source of all things clark, scott and roger related. Accept no substitutes, damn it.

You like totally should of been there¹ last night. We caught a glimpse of the future and one thing is for sure, I am glad to be part of the Wakefield Doctrine. Granted the vision that we saw was a bit fuzzy and maybe there was a drop-out or two as the evening progressed, (just to cover the full demographic of our readership, picture sitting at your computer and the download time goes way down, constant hourglass-thingie. You get some aluminum foil and tape it to the monitor and every now and then you flatten the foil out, maybe bang the side of the screen with the heel of your hand.)

Last night’s Wakefield was sort of like that. In attendance was:

glenn downspring and avatar of the scottian male (NA culture circa 2011) riding shotgun² it is becoming increasingly obvious that a navigator, co-pilot or at very least a PA is necessary on the drive to Wakefield theses days
DS#1 from the Sunshine State, she appeared to have assumed the role/function of the Designated Rational Adult (DRA) which was fortunate for the rest of us as besides the constant danger of mistaking a RED stoplight for a GREEN stoplight, the path to and about Wakefield is apparently lousy with wormholes and timewarps³
Ms AKH who, once we got tired of seeing ourselves on the video playback, was called to inject some maturity into the rapidly devolving dialogue
my-own-self driver, chief cinematographer (’cause it was my camera)

Anyway, I think you get the picture. The camera recorded 21 minutes of a virtual meeting of Progenitors and DownSprings during an actual drive through Wakefield…in high def.

Tell me this is not very promising.

Before we lose all our new Readers and/orVisitors and FOTD (Hey Mel! We will work the bugs out of the system before you get “the Call”, we totally promise. Clear your calendar for Saturday night, early March around 7:45 EST (6:45 CT check your local listings).

New Readers? This is not your typical Post here at the Wakefield Doctrine. This is actually more focused than most that you will find. But we try to always have something useful and instructive in terms of the Doctrine, how you can use the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to better understand the behavior of the people in your life. And all kidding aside, this thing of ours is actually a very useful tool for that purpose. What we have here is a simple and fun way to get a ‘quick look’ from inside the head of the other person, the person you can’t figure out. Seeing the world as the other person does, has always been the Solomon Stone of psychology, self-help, most major religions and hardly any political viewpoints.

Here at the Wakefield Doctrine we simply say, “The people you live with, work with, and play with are either a clark or a scott or a roger. And each of these three types experience the world with a different bias, a different set of rules (for behavior). If you are a clark and your husband is a roger, then with the Wakefield Doctrine you will understand why the hell he does those really annoying things that he does, at the least opportune times. And if you are a roger and the girl you want to go out with is a scott then here is what she will respond to if you want to get her to like you”
That kind of helpful advice. We have that and much more, and if you are still reading, chances are you have the kind of “flexible intelligence’ that it seems to take to get this whole theory of clarks, scotts and rogers thing and do something good for yourself.

That and hats! We have (nearly free) hats (for your damn head). Simply write a little Comment at the bottom of this Post and we will send you the appropriate hat. Don’t worry, we will know which hat to send.

Well, that’s all for now….

Hey! AKH you seem to have the magic touch with getting the Doctrine out to these yahoos…I will leave the linking out in your capable hands. Now get out there on that (digital) street and get us some Readers…. (ha, ha)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTLiPbtnhvU

1.) Why in the car on the drive to Wakefield, of course!
2.) the Progenitor roger has a Post that includes this ubiquitous , america-car-obsessed-culture-based term, go read about it at the Lag a Muffin
3.) the timewarps and wormholes are a Wakefield related epiode(s) that we will be studying as it is not clear whether they are a phenomenon coming from the drive in and of itself or merely the result of a common history of the passengers in the car…stay tuned!

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thats un savoureux petit Doctrine, miam miam

January 21, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Lets talk.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a ‘theory of personality’ the same way that your grandmother or mother (or wife or husband) is a chef. What they can do is produce food that you and your family look forward to eating and of course, everyone enjoys and benefits from their efforts both as food and (as) a social occasion. Not only that, your husband or wife or boyfriend or grandmother uses most of the same tools and ingredients and equipment that Le Cordon Bleu chef will use. Both will work with food in a kitchen environment that is essentially the same and (all) produce meals that are good and good for you, the only difference:

your grandmother will never be on television, your mom will never write a book that will be found in bookstores, your wife or your husband will never have a meal named after them (on the menu of a restaurant).

Who is the better cook?

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

Do not think that we are apologizing for our grandmothers or our lack of empirical date (supporting this here theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, here). We are not. But just because the techniques and tricks and recipes of your “family chef” have certain limitations, does not preclude us from being determined to try and rise above the confines of the ‘novelty blog’ category with the Wakefield Doctrine. Point in fact, it is the goal of all involved with this blogsite to take what we have learned about human personality and behavior and, with no small amount of chutzpah, put it in front of as many people as possible. Our very immodest intent is quite simply to get people to see the world through the lens of our little Doctrine.

There is no “WHY?” question here. (The only possible answer would be, “Why not?”) To take that approach would have the fault of being un-necessarily modest. Our intent is, with all of the means available to us, presenting/promoting/publicising/pushing the Wakefield Doctrine in order to have some effect on the world, if only 30 or 40 people worth. Maybe more than that, (perhaps 300 or 400) people will read about this thing and find the same usefulness that we do and these people will benefit from having come to this blog and learned about our ‘theory or personality’.
But hey, everyone starts out as someone’s son/husband/brother/grandson/girlfriend/yeah,they used to live right down the street before they turned into a celebrity or an authority or a mover or a shaker (the Hollywood variety not the Pennsylvania type).
Take Martha Stewart (…”please”) she was someones mother at a point in time prior to becoming a valued NYSE listed commodity…might have been your mother, but probably not. She was Alexis’s mother

Be that as it may. Lets take a quick look at our “cookbook” so that our more credential-dependent Readers can continue to enjoy this blog and still get something useful from your visit today.

clarks: quiet but always manage to get noticed, introspective but aggressive, creative and intellectual yet capable of blindingly stupid stubbornness when they believe they have an understanding of the situation;
scotts: free-spirited extroverts who feed on the discomfort of others, natural leaders who inspire confidence and will spring into action regardless of how ill-conceived the action or ill-prepared for the unexpected they might be;
rogers: precise and exact and they would have invented OCD (if it had not already existed), sociable, likable and prone to extreme prejudice, with the right tools they will build the infrastructure of the civilized world just so they will have people to pass judgement on

Thats a pretty basic set of ‘recipes’ or down-home culinary technique, isn’t it?
Don’t you think your grandmom had fun teaching your mother to cook on cold winter evenings? The food at your house? doesn’t it taste as good as the food you could learn to prepare by spending 5 years in a culinary school? No? You think the chef, by virtue of all their formal training is better off? Well, here is a little look at their world

What does the term “seasonal affective disorder” or “seasonal affect disorder” mean?

Answer:

It has long been observed that the incidence of depression varies with the seasons. For example, depression and suicide seem to be more frequent in the population during the spring months in men but more common in the autumn and winter in women. In the 1980s a small group of patients considered to be suffering from manic-depressive illnesses were noted to follow a cyclical pattern with depression in the winter and mania in the summer. It was also noted that latitude had an effect on these illnesses in that moving north made depression worse and moving south had a beneficial effect (at least for those living in the northern hemisphere). The term seasonal affective disorder (SAD), has been coined to describe this small group of sufferers.

Melatonin (Circadin) helps as a treatment of seasonal affective disorder.

Which modality will you be using? We’ve been training all year and summer, but I’ve been reading extra materials based in the theoretical orientation of my program. Also I’ve watched other students’ sessions and “expert” example sessions.
(This last is a direct quote from a site catering to pre-doc psych students who want to worry outloud if they will be wonderful enough when they go into actual clinical practice (I believe the preceding quotes from various psychological advice sites would answer their question, don’t you?

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Question by ‘mysteryasker person: Need advice with psychology/counseling careers?
I have a passion for all types of psychology and counseling. I am most interested in family therapy. However my dream job is to be an equine assisted therapist, or practice hippotherapy with troubled teens and children and adults with autism and asperger’s. I do not want a job where I am smiply trying to decide what mental illness this person has. I want to work with people who don’t necessarily have a psychological disorder but instead need guidance or help with personal/emotional/family issues. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is it better to pick a profession you’re passionate about or to go with whichever pays the most? I personally feel that if you’re passionate about you’re career youll go farther. Really need some help on this one. If anyone can give me a list of careers in the field I just described and the pay rate I’d really appreciate it! Thanks.

Best answer:
Answer by xxxx and her family (pf equally unqualified answer persons)
before becoming a good therapist, it is better to get your self evaluated by qualified psychologists.
check your IQ and EQ levels, attitude and aptitude tests and get your behaviour and mind fully analysed by psycho analysts and behaviour therapists.
then only you can choose whether to become a family counselor or clinical psychologist.
you can do a major in special education and get employment in schools for mentally challenged people.

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(Dr. xxx’s un-related advice):

Well Kim, you are in one of the most unfortunate positions a person can be in in terms of family or friends. Many of us have gone through a situation where a friend or loved one seems to choose someone who is probably not that great a match. There can be many reasons why people choose to pair up with someone who might be detrimental to their life or their other relationships, but it is rare when someone is able to intervene and help that person make a meaningful change in their life. You usually have to ask yourself a couple of questions, such as “what is my sister getting out of this relationship, and why does she stay in it?” I recently read an article about research being done by John Farra at Central Michigan University that lists six possible reasons why women in particular choose poorly in relationships, and these are:

1. Low Self-Concept or Self-Esteem
2. The Need to Nurture
3. Excitement
4. The Need to be Nurtured
5. Wanting to Control
6. Chemistry

Now these six apply more specifically to why women choose “bad boys”, but could probably apply more generally to why people make their choices in relationships in general. Once people better understand the motivations behind their relationship choices, they can often more readily act in a more healthy manner in the relationship. Of course, the biggest issue here is whether your sister sees her future husband’s alcoholism as a problem, or if she even defines it as such. The question I would have more specifically for you is how are you defining the term BLAH BLAH Frickin shut up BLAH (I added that last part, ed.)

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Hey Ma! Wait! Don’t start cooking without me! I wanna watch….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTxma3wyrjU

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“Klaatu barada nikto”… bitch

January 15, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Lets be realistic. You, me and you over there, and the guy from frickin Ukraine, we all get a kick out of clickin on the ‘Doctrine and seeing some photos that (at first) seem reasonable, then suddenly makes you laugh. And you, and that new person from Mel’s home State ( “Michigan …the one with the really cool-looking Lake“) and a couple of ‘people’ from some country I didn’t know even existed ( Norrkoping Ostergotlands, Lan??! ) drop by once a week or so to read a few Posts, I guess. I don’t really know. Now, at this point, we usually say something about how fuckin grateful we are that you come to our little blog and how hard everyone here works at keepin this thing going… but you already knew that. And that is most likely our problem. predictability. A Rut. Same ole, Same ole. Hey! we’re the Wakefield Doctrine, listen to us talk about our little club…yeah, listen to us….this is a printed medium, you are no more listening to an actual conversation than you would be if you mailed a frickin questionnaire to you friends that read: “At tomorrow’s party please have answers prepared for the following questions”. Listen in…no that is not true. And it is our fault.

For all of what we claim, the Wakefield Doctrine being a “unique and productive insight into the personalities of the people in our lives…” blah…blah…hey glenn! aren’t you supposed to find something really offensive to say here?…oh! “DS#1” go for the ‘I am so quiet and precocious…don’t you see how underestimated I am?”….
hell! even this little rant…fuckin go back to the Fall of 2 frickin 09 and you will see this same damn thing in the first 3 Posts that you come across…

Clearly this thing of ours is getting too comfortable. And as glenn says, ‘hey you gotta make ’em squirm, you’ve lost your edge’….(hey, glenn? speaking of losing your edge, you want a bottle of seltzer and a cream pie to go with your schtick? they’ll love it, it’ll be soo retro…don’t worry…you’ll still be out-fuckin-rageous/ I can’t believe he actually said that, man that guy is crazy…)

Whatever.

So here’s the deal.

We keep producing these Posts so you can listen to songs that you forgot you liked and you tell someone about this site. Today. Right now. Anyone. Does not matter. The girl in the cubicle next to yours. Your secretary or your supervisor. Your suite mate at your dorm or your lab partner in biology class. Your damn sister, if that’s all you got. And you say this:

“Hey I found this blog. They said I have to tell one other person to go and see it. Their url is https://wakefielddoctrine.com Go there and visit the site.”

Now, the stupider ones among you are thinking, ‘yeah well how are they gonna know I did that’. Hey Reader, look to the right edge of this window. See that section titled: Live Traffic Feed? Says Wyoming and New Symrna Beach? What do you think that means?

We’ll know.

Now get goin. Maybe we’ll be here when you get back.

The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated upon the idea that everyone experiences the world/reality differently, from one of three overlapping but distinctive perspectives. It also proposes that our personalities are but a result of our perception, of our habitual responses to the world. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that this characteristic perception of reality can be grouped into three distinct types, called for reasons stated elsewhere, clarks, scotts and rogers.

Born with the potential to view the world in one of these three ways, all people possess the characteristics of all (three) but soon (by age 7 or so) ‘become one of the three. Put another way: we also possess the potential to see the world as a clark or a scott or a roger. It is only the predominance of qualities from one (over the other two) that makes us what we are. No one is only clarklike or scottian or rogerian.

The value of the Wakefield Doctrine is that once you can see the world ‘through the eyes’ of another, behavior becomes understandable. If a scott sees the world as a predator (would) then all action is predicated on interacting with the world as a predator. This is distinctly different from a roger, who seeing the world as a social being, predicates action and reaction on the basis of a world in which the interactions of the herd is the dominant theme.

Yeah…sure, why the hell not.

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Honey! …I’m home!

January 12, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey, everyone! Look at this:
(when you are at the sites you can see both front and back…to return here click the ‘Back’ button…glenn)

Tee Shirt for a scott

Tee Shirt for a clark

Yeah, thats right! Tee Shirts! We are working on the Spring Line of the (official) Wakefield Doctrine Fashion Line. Or as we have been taking to referring to it around here: “the ’11 the Hard Way Collection”!

Yeah, you read that right. Putting the finishing touches on the fashion for this Spring/Summer 2011. We still open to suggestions for (the) rogerian shirts. If you have any ideas, just use the Comment Box at the bottom of the Post to submit your suggestions. (If the line is too long, drop us an email.)
Pricing has not yet been finalized, so don’t let the prices on the (illustration) website alarm you. I have no doubt there will be Contests and Giveaways, just as we have done with the (nearly free) hats (for your damn head), we will be sure that Readers will be able secure themselves some Tees, if’n theys want to. Plus having a line of Tee Shirts means that we can get the Doctrine out there on some chestses… hey, is it me or does that sounds like an idea for a Contest!

(Pre-pre-liminary Announcement of the First Contest to Win a ’11 the Hard Way Tee Shirt!) To begin March 6th, the first annual “Hey you can’t take a picture of my chest…oh! you’re from the Doctrine! It’s ok then.” ( aka YCT ‘a POMC)
Rules will be announced as we make them up.

Expect to see some changes in the ‘look’ of the Doctrine in the next month or so…plans are staggering along to go back to the ‘Branford’ theme that we had back last Spring. (This was the more ‘magaziny’ looking layout, sorta like the current layout, only better.) We are also working on getting more educational with this Doctrine thing of ours. The consensus is that, while there is value in “listening in on” the discussions of DownSprings and Progenitors by way of the Posts; some of our newer Readers are not getting the basics of the Wakefield Doctrine, at least not getting them quickly enough to get hooked on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers.

The best suggestion (to help the new Reader get up to speed) came from the Progenitor roger…video! Or to be more precise, one of those flash video inserts that we can stick on ‘front page’ of the Doctrine. This way a new Reader can hear about the Doctrine in a quick 45 to 90 second video clip (…to quote our favorite lady, ‘you been told’). Pre-liminary pre-production is already started. Two aspects of the production; Content and Casting.

(…did someone just hear “…Lesson of the Day…Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day!” )

Actually this issue is a very useful topic to build a Lesson of the Day around. But maybe there isn’t any debate about which of the three (clark, scott or roger) would make the best Spokesthing.

Put me down for 1 vote for (young) scottian female. Anyone got a problem with that? No, I didn’t think so. But lets take advantage of this moment of all too rare unanimity… lets explain to the new Readers out there, why we all feel that a scott is the best choice for the job of Wakefield Doctrine Spokesthing.
It comes down to capturing the attention of the new Reader and holding it for as long as possible. Here in the world of blogs, attention span is as fleeting as ‘quiet introspection in a scott’, it happens, but it will be gone as soon as you have a chance to notice.
The video intro will be clearly marked:

Important Information for New Readers! (we will catch the clarks there)
…it should then say in an authoritative looking font: CLICK HERE (got some rogers)
The ‘still’ photo will be an attractive, young-but-not-too-young (say 19-23 yo) female appearing to be happy to tell you something (the scotts are seated)

The presentation should follow Mouzas’s Three Elements (of all) Sales Pitches, Employee Workplace Coping Skills Training Module(s) and How to Get Lucky on the First Date Strategy:

tell them what you are going to tell them
tell them
tell them what you just told them

(Pretty simple, isn’t it?)

So after consulting with the DownSprings, FOtD and Progenitors, we will come up with a 45 second introduction video to the Wakefield Doctrine.

(Did someone mutter, “hey thats easy for you to say”? Yeah, well you think this is easy? You try getting up here and writing this little plan…(not so easy is it?) and if you get this far lets see you close this Post out with:

“…so we need all the DownSprings and Friends of the Doctrine and Progenitors to be on the lookout for a young, attractive scottian female, who would be willing to help us out, for free”…

hey! where’d you go? Come back here, you have to Reply to the Comments! lol)

er…Mr. B might perhaps be a good time to play us some runnin away music, yo

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the Captain cried and we sailors wept

January 8, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

H..h..hey! Listen to this:

This will be a short Post. Lots to do and not a lot of time to do it (in).

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool.
No different than a hammer or a screw driver, the Doctrine is designed to apply force in a specific situation, more efficiently than is possible, (without the benefit of such a tool). Of course instead of wood or plumbing, wires or roofing, the thing we are applying force to is our ‘personality’.
( Hey Mr Doctrine, man! what the hell? personality ain’t no roof or pipes. Its just the person I am, why do you think I want to mess with myself ).

Well nobody is telling anybody what to do with the Wakefield Doctrine. It is a blog and it has music videos and cleverly-selected photos, so you can just visit this site and read the Post and listen to the music. If thats all you need, fine. But….

But, if you have a curious sort of mind, and find new things interesting and you like a challenge (especially a challenge to yourself) then the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) has a whole bunch of usefulness.
As a tool.

No different than any other tool, this Doctrine thing of ours allows you to do certain things really, really well. And, other things…not as much. ( How many Readers have tried to use pliers to tighten a bolt or maybe a slot-head screw driver on a Phillips head screw? it is possible, ya just have to turn the screwdriver sort of sideways, enough to catch the indent )
Instead of nuts and bolts and wiring and plumbing, this blog offers you a way to understand stuff about the other people in your life (which may, or may not, be a good thing) and it will help you understand stuff about your own self.
You know, the thing about the behavior of people that makes most of us crazy (and drives some of us to places like this blog) is not what the people in our lives do, it is not even ‘what they are trying to achieve (by doing the things that they do). No, for most of us it is the Why.

…Why did you have to go and do that? Why can’t you understand what I am saying to you? Why can’t you hear what I am saying to you?

What was that? Why would anyone want to mess with their own heads? I don’t know. Why did you stop playing with toys? Why did you change your job. Why can’t you seem to get what you think you want?

For the small percentage of the Readers still with us, the answer is: Because if you have a choice, it is better to learn to be a better person/human/man/female/worker/spouse/enemy/lover.

Deciding if you want to do these things….you are on your own.

But, hey people…. we got some really cool tools here.