Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Happy Last Day of Winter.
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December 22, 2015 By
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December 14, 2015 By
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(lol… no! wait! I’m sure there’s a mature and reasonable explanation for today’s Post photo!)
…nah, nothing I can think of, other than it reminds me of the TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) The idea of picking a photo or image and letting that prompt me to write a Post goes way back to the beginning of this blog. Kinda fun, actually. And….and! in ways, not nearly as disturbing as when I write the Post first and then pick whatever image that jumps off the page at me. More often than you might think, some underlying theme of the Post manages to influence my fairly un-deliberate decision process. Actually what’s more disturbing is when a theme that I’m unaware of (at least consciously unaware of) becomes dominant because of the image.
hey! speaking of TAT and the Wakefield Doctrine, get a load of this:
“…(Henry A.) Morgan and (Christiana D) Murray decided on the final set of pictures, Series D, which remains in use today. Although she was given first authorship on the first published paper about the TAT in 1935, Morgan did not receive authorship credit on the final published instrument. Reportedly, her role in the creation of the TAT was primarily in the selection and editing of the images, but due to the primacy of the name on the original publication the majority of written inquiries about the TAT were addressed to her; since most of these letters included questions that she could not answer, she requested that her name be removed from future authorship. ” (from wikipedia)
Anyone out there care to tell us the predominant worldview of our Ms. Murray? lol yeah, I know! too easy!
Speaking of fun on a Monday morning, Chapter 9 of ‘Blogdominion‘ is out and live and ready for your readification! If there’s anyone out there who has not yet read this here serial here, I would totally owe you one, (I don’t know… maybe be a character in the story at some point? intrigue me), if you would read the story from Start to Finish and write a short review in the site (jukepop). If that’s more than you have the available time for, a comment about what you enjoy and what (if anything) you find confusing about the story would have me eternally in your debt.
the Wakefield Doctrine is described as a tool that can help us better understand the people in our lives. Well, it’s true. It can also help us understand ourselves better than we already do. Of course, this requires us to identify our own predominant worldview. How challenging this process is has everything to do with a person’s predominant worldview (and/or their secondary aspect), but I think, this early Monday morning, I’m going to be somewhat coy and not reveal the quick ‘n easy approach to determining your personality type.*
As to using the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine as you venture out into your world this Monday in December? Know the characteristics of the three worldviews by heart, observe the people you come into contact with and ask yourself this very simple question, “how does this person relate themselves to the world around them? as a(n) Outsider(clark) would…all mumbly, aggressively deferential and full of un-realistic hope? or as would a Predator(scott) fast-moving, fast reacting, hungry for life to the point of eating everything/anything, even that which makes them sick, because the appetite is point, life is for living, or (perhaps) this person relates themselves to the world around them as would a Herd Member(roger) so certain, so sure in the fact that the world makes sense, if only enough people are brought together and there is no greater value than to demonstrate the Right Way for all to access.
like that
*experienced Readers and DownSprings are now nodding and saying, ‘yeah, and those New Readers don’t realize that their own response to this holding back could answer the question, in and of itself’
TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘little in style, much in content’
December 12, 2015 By
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
…and, I quote from the subject line of Phyllis’ email with attached photo: “The tree fort ablaze with Christmas lights”
Follow the Directions on our Founderess’s Blog, on how (and why) to participate in this here bloghop, and, in the words of a pretty amazing scott I worked with, years ago, “you cain’t never go wrong!”*
Cain’t indeed!
1) vidchat two words: zoe, Denise, Kerry, Lizzi, Val, Lisa, and, of course! Kristi
2) treehouse (see photo above)
3) work (well, I got me this blog jones to support, ya know?)
4) Six. Sentences. Stories. Skills acquisition by the numbers.
5) Blogdominion. Chapter 9 (teaser: there’s about to be another oddly mysterious death, a certain computer component is getting lonely)
6) SBoR/BoSR (which leapt out of the TToT into the ‘real’ world last night, when Kerry, (an original member of ‘the New Friday vidchat’), asked about multi-purposing a Post and ‘our Ms. Rogers’ said very simply, ‘surely there’s a Dance for that!**
7) Phyllis (see photo above)
8) Una (totally looking forward to the days getting longer, next week. Our Friday ‘Walks’ are somewhat unreliable, due to the fact that it gets dark at 3:13 most afternoons.
9) Wakefield Doctrine (favorite Doctrine citation from last night’s vidchat: “sure them legitimate theories of personality, like that Oscar-Myers, Briggs and Stratton INF EIEIO gots Axeseses…. you want insight into introversion? ‘clarks hate to be the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored.’ now that’s insight.
10) SR 1.3 boom!
*Jimmy Johnson, was a Sales Manager I knew when I worked in the timeshare business. He was such an example of the force of personality that is inherent in the scottian personality type. (ok! just one story, then I need to get to work.)
So I met Jimmy Johnson when I worked a timeshare resort in New England in the 80s. Marketing was simple, we sent thousands of letters inviting people to come and look at the resort and, for doing so, they would be given a very nice gift. (Yeah, that was us). Now Jimmy Johnson was….. not from around here. He was from Georgia …or Alabama, some place way down South. He wore powder blue 3 piece suits with huge sweat stains and had very greasy hair (Brylcreem-greasy, not naturally greasy). He walked with a limp, his left arm didn’t quite work, (both, damage from a stroke), spoke with a drawl you could cut with the proverbial knife and….and! used incredibly bad grammar, replete with double negatives.
So picture the scene: a sales room, maybe 30 tables and chairs (1 sales rep, two guests) and this where the sale was completed (called ‘the backend’). It was in this crowded and noisy room that Jimmy Johnson provided very crystal clear, unmistakable illustration of the scottian worldview. Now it happened that this particular timeshare resort was close enough to New York to mail to Long Island and, so most of our ‘guests’ were from that part of New York. [Visual] a roomful of conservative, well dressed and semi-defensive guests…with an attitude. When they saw Jimmy Johnson coming over to their table (remember, these people were from New York, they knew what he was there for, to Close the sale), more often than not, if you were looking you would see a look of relief on their faces. The relief was there because they knew that the guy with the sweat stains was clearly some poor rube, cluelessly out of his element. It was gonna be no contest. They were right, and they were so wrong. Jimmy Johnson would close more sales than any of the other Sales Manager, by a country mile. Space and time don’t permit a full recounting of just how Jimmy won over the much more sophisticated people in the room, but the thing is, he did not force them to buy. For Readers without experience in sales, it might be hard to believe, but he was not a ‘high-pressure’ salesman. He was a powerful salesman, which meant that the people Jimmy Johnson sold, did so because they found themselves liking him and the resort. That’s what scotts do. They’re Predators in every sense, (both good and horrifying), of the word. Go ahead, go ask a scott (if you’re too scared, which, btw, is not such an ill-advised reaction to this suggestion, you can ask me…. I know me a couple scotts)
**’Dance’ refers to the key to negotiating with the Seven Guard Virgins (SGV) who are the final Arbiters of any challenges involving the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)… zoe is the Danielle Webster of the occasional little SBoR/BoSR disputes, btw
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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- weekend in pre-preview
December 11, 2015 By
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
honestly, I have no idea what this image has to do with today’s Post.
First: vidchat tonight! 6:30 EST (New Readers? we use google hangouts to hookup* put it on your computer or phone and either leave a comment here or go to clark scottroger on ‘the Facebook’ and you’ll see the link.) It’s fun, you don’t have to dress-up (at least from the waist down… as Sarah will tell you), and there are these remarkable people there (I use the word ‘remarkable’ in the dictionary sense, you know (“…Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon;” our friends at wikitionary) And, of late, writing and other out-of-mind-experiences has been a topic of discussion…. and. and! we have people with accents! (my lovely v-wife Laura has such a proper accent)
Chapter 9 Blogdominion is due out this Sunday. (A month has passed since Sr Margaret Ryan returned from Chicago, when a FedEx arrives at the convent. Mother Superior calls Sr Margaret to her office and we learn what’s in the envelope …and we learn a bit more about Sister Bernadine and her connections to Chicago in the 1990s. Did you know that one of the members of the ‘Hermes Consortium’ went on to become Head of the Orthopedic Residency Program at a teaching hospital in Ohio? Well, she did. Too bad about the pervasiveness of computers linked to the Cloud, isn’t it? Find out more Sunday! You can read the whole story here.)
No, you’re correct! There’s no way I can publish a Post with less than 300 words. So, one quick Doctrine rant.
You know what really annoys me? Unskilled scottian salespeople (no, wait, let me amend that…. unskilled scottian salesmen. scottian saleswomen, well they’re in an entirely different category, but that’s not important now). The thing is, scotts are the natural salesmen, of the three personality types. I’ll get a bit technical and qualify that, scotts are the best Closers of the three. This Post is not about sales, but a sale is made when someone ‘closes’ someone. scotts love to sell. it’s a genetic memory of the days on the Savannah as the vast sea of meals (wildebeests and antelope and such) would cover the grassy plains and life was hunt and eat and provide for the pack and sleep and create a larger pack. Anyway…. the way to identify a scott who is not good at sales is that they will use the following line: “…what you’ve got to understand is….”
I had a vendor/contractor say this to me on the phone the other day. I smiled. I also let him go on (and on and on) because I was at my desk and was getting other things done. Yes, I could have hung up, but I needed the Bid he promised to send me. Anyway, if anyone has questions about the best approaches to scottian (or rogerian or clarklike) salesmen, let me know!
There! 489
See you all tonight!
*well, you know what we mean
Six Sen T’en ceS tor y -the Wakefield Doctrine- (no, nothing significant, just playing with the title of the ‘hop)
December 10, 2015 By
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
It’s kinda late tonight, (Wednesday), to get my non-blank-page entry established, so that when I get up tomorrow, I won’t face an empty screen. I know that the word prompt this week is ‘Standard’ and so, I begin the process. I looked up (alternate) uses of the word ‘Standard’ and came across: “…standard, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image,” this is a part of the definition of the ‘standard bearer’ and may, very well, be our starting point.
Not sure, but one thing I do know, I want to write a Six Sentence Story this week that is a little, less…. metaphysical, ya know?
The couple left the church, amid a downpour of un-cooked rice, waving over their shoulders at the well-wishers who would soon be celebrating with food and drink and music. Neither spoke as the limo pulled away from the curb, bound for their hotel suite, to usher in a life of two-made-one. She chattered incessantly, inanely and constantly, hearing her own words much as fish, swimming in schools, sense the change of position of the other fishes, she talked about the world that she felt changing, unable to accept that the change was within herself. He listened to her quietly, as he found, in her sounds and words, a distraction from his own internal dialogue, a quietly-shouted stream of drives and desires, forming conflicts and amplifying each new thought until the world seemed to become, a vast, silent and thoroughly judgmental audience.
They found their way to the bridal suite, each by following the other, each by distracting themselves, there remained only physical consummation, very much a standard with two bearers.
(yeah, I know, ‘nice try’ I can do without the sarcasm ….lol next week for sure!)
