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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 8, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

We’re in a new year, why not construct a syllabus?

Surely, a syllabus and it’s totally, tell-me-they-didn’t-do-this-just-for-the-fun-of-it plural form, syllabi is to higher education as those hard-cardboard, random-pattern covered composition books are to high school. Lets don the mortar and pestle of our mis-remembered school days and consider some topics for… what was the cool academic term for the semester without tests… directed study? free association, experimental free study…. life in a dormitory, days on a campus without parental interference? … pretty sure it involved picking one professor but not on a dissertation level… damn, can’t remember,

Send in your comments and recommendations. There’s time. Nothing to do until we start this week’s TToT. Hey, I heard Lizzi re-did her FB page or something…. hold on, lemme go check. Here.

Speaking of Lizzi, in a reply to J’s comment on this week’s Six, I mentioned Cynthia. Both of them, (Lizzi and Cynthia) were the star pupils of the inaugural Freshman class of this here blog here.

(The term pupil is not appropriate, as you will see, but I got myself cornered in the school metaphor, and, well, you know. Go! Doctrinaires! Go! ….go? Doctrinaires?)

In any event, these two exceptional humans showed up at this place (“I don’t know… I heard there was this little shop down the alley, not big on street lights in this part of the virtual world, are they?”) independently following different paths, here, way back, in, like, I don’t know, 2010…2011.

What made them exceptional was that they read what we had as a description of the Wakefield Doctrine and not only immediately understood the principles and the applications, they proceeded to extrapolate the concept within their own personal/local worlds, thereby increasing the vocabulary we have for our little personality theory.

Thanks, guys.

Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi, citing a line from an old post,

Of course i still like it after all this time, it’s fun, it’s my only form of amusement, and it gives me the illusion for a moment, when people comment, that maybe there is a place i belong after all.

reminds us all that, while the Wakefield Doctrine is fun and useful for people of all three personality types (clarks, scotts and rogers), it is, at heart, a place that offers a sense of belonging, otherwise not found in the personal reality of Outsiders.

(to give myself something to listen to during the day, the from a clarklike guitar player)

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Friday- the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 27, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

“I thought I heard something from over there too! What are the odds?”

(In the timeless tradition of book reports and written accounts for time spent away from class.)

...the purpose of this Post.

You know the really interesting question is not the, ‘What’, rather, it is the ‘Why’

…thing of it is, the ‘What’ question is the one that has generated the two thousand two hundred and eleven posts* that came before.

There is one driving ambition, to this blog and, by reductive extension*** behind all that you will find in these pages: to have as many people as possible learn of the Wakefield Doctrine. The reductive extension, which accounts for and can be found to apply to most individual posts, is the ambition to write a perfect Wakefield Doctrine post.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people who make it up. Disguised, or as we like to say ’round the Doctrine clubhouse, manifesting as a personality type/theory, the Wakefield Doctrine offers an internally-consistent framework to support three personality types.

The basic premise is: we are born with the capability to experience life from the perspective of one of three characteristic realities, the world of the Outsider(clarks), the reality of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers). We find our-very-young-selves in one (and only one) of these three realities. From there we grow and mature and, in the process: develop behaviors and social strategies, coping mechanisms and personal tastes as is appropriate to the context, appropriate and effective relative to our reality.

Put another way: a clark has trained to live life as an Outsider; a scott has developed all the skills that are necessary to survive and thrive in the world of a Predator and a roger is an example of the interpersonal skillset best suited to the world of the Herd Member.

This approach will distinguish the Wakefield Doctrine from most other approaches to personality types. We are not concerned with trait surveys or schedules of interests and tropisms, there is no scoring system, the product of which designates one’s personality type, (from a list of points on a spectrum of styles-of-life).

Each of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine represent the best adaptation to the world in which the individual grew up.

While it is….err doctrine(lol) that we all have one predominant worldview, it is also a given that we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. In point of fact, there is often a case where an individual will have a markedly developed secondary (or tertiary) aspect. This can be observed when a person acts in a manner in contrast to their normal selfs.

It is all about ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’.

Learn the character and qualities of the three ways to relate to the world and you will not only have a deeper understanding of those around you, you will have the ability, (if not necessarily the will), to self-improve yourself far more effectively than ever before.

* Full Disclosure** some of those two thousand two hundred and eleven posts were ‘Guest Posts’ (written by others) and yet others are video posts¹

** and conclusive evidence of being a clark…lol

*** not a ‘real’ term of rhetoric

1) as a matter of fact, yes, I am prepared to argue that they, (the video posts), are as ‘written’ as anything cunniformistically rendered and corralled by …by ‘the Wranglers of Grammar’ (with the dreaded CMS brand), waiting to encounter desirable wordage.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Agree…Disagree…No Fricken Way”

November 3, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Now there’s a subtitle fashioned to set fire to a Reader’s heart!

(ed. We continue to eschew: the purloined parent’s cigarettes, peer-pressure illicit alcohol and Disney-inspired semi-pedaephilic romances, so, our response to your eyebrow semaphore is “No! This post is about…”)

…the fundamental distinction between the Wakefield Doctrine and most other personality theories/tests/’how-to-tell-if’ popular quizzes and …and! it also refers to the simplest approach for determining another person’s predominant worldviews*.

Distinction: lots of those personality tests, quizzes, surveys and EBRTII-axis-(with-ac-and-power-steering) take the approach of self-reporting, i.e. tell us your likes, dislikes and tendency to respond to that situation. Then you add up the scores (no cheating!) and discover your True (and-really-cooler-than-anyone-gives-you-credit-for) Personality Type! OK, nothing wrong with that! Especially if you’re in the market for a club-shaped mirror. The Wakefield Doctrine takes a different approach.

Doesn’t matter what you think. Doesn’t matter what you do. Doesn’t matter how you feel.

….any more questions?

The reason the Wakefield Doctrine, skillfully applied, allows you to know more about the other person than you have any right to know is that the basis of the Doctrine is the relationship between us (collectively) and the world (around us). That relationship is observable. The holy-smoke-how-did-these-qualities-get-so-aptly-grouped power of the Wakefield Doctrine is simply this:

imagine you are an Outsider(clark), from the moment you could reflect on the world around you, you see/think/believe there is a difference between you and most everyone, more so, as you try to determine the basis for this difference, you are forced into the conviction that most everyone else knows each/know-to-do/are a part and share something you know that you are missing. So you develop your strategy and social coping mechanisms and style… you learn to act like a clark
the world moves fast, it doesn’t ask your permission, it has a tendency to surprise, (fun surprise and fatal surprise), you are in the world of the Predator(scott), without taking the time to think, you react, accepting the nature of the world, seeing no profit in arguing with the fairness, you practice assessment and response, you enjoy the action, you cherish the variety, chase and be chased, its fun
you look around you, you see the parts and you see how they connect, you join the Herd Members(roger), the world is beautiful and it is imperfect, you are encouraged by the fact you know there are those around you who share your appreciation and they look to you to help discover the nature of the problem and to work out the Right Way, like an equation, a¹ + b² = c³ it is both solid and beautiful and reliable (it does not state: a*(sometimes)… it describes the quantifiable reliability of the world…

So, here when we want to know about another person, the first question we pose ourselfs is ‘how are they relating themselves to the world around them? as an Outsider or a Predator or a Herd Member… everything else follows from that

The second inference of our subtitle relates to the effort to discern a person’s predominant worldview aka personality type. We have three to choose from, one (of the three) is quickly determined to be a ‘no fricken way’. That leaves two worldviews. Like the last time you were at the optimist’s, look at the world from where they are standing, ‘Is that clear?’ now, (click) try this, is that clearer than before’ (click) how about this…

we did say this personality theory was fun, didn’t we?

*seein how we getting more and more views and reads and other google breadcrumbs of late, we want to remind all of one of the first (and few) rules of the Wakefield Doctrine. No one can say “You’re a clark (or) a scott (yeah, like thats likely to happen) or roger and claim this theory as their authority. (Did someone mutter ‘Referential Authority”?**) You are the one that decides, determines, accepts or laughs in relief which of the three personal reality applies to you.

** very apt, though beyond the scope of this Post. In short: referential authority is a deep artifact discovered by the Doctrine and represents a fundamental, if no secret, element in the world of the Herd Member

#theWakefieldDoctrine

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘of resolutions and expectations and Reader participation’

October 6, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Well, now that you mention it, the uses of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself, would be an excellent topic this Tuesday morning.

Why yes, we all know that Tuesday is the mildest of workweek days and, therefore, is favored by clarks. But why would that be so?

For a variety of reasons, I’m running later than usual. So, while I’m off at a septic inspection, any Readers (…errr reading this) out there want to jump in, have at it!

Use the comment box for whatever content/direction/’yeah-but-don’t-forget-about!!!’ input you have and, when I get back (say, 10am-ish) I’ll put them into this post right and proper. (Don’t forget any formatting that you would do, asteroids, bullet-points and such and I’ll do my best.)

There!

Regular Readers: you’ve got all you should need sure, you can ask Cynthia or Denise or Mimi questions… just don’t hound them

New Readers: ok… no, this is not a trick and, no, despite what the roger next to you is saying* there are no ‘Right’ answers. That said, we will help you get started with a set of bulletized suggestions:

the Wakefield Doctrine has three personality types (clarks, scotts and rogers) and you’re one of the three, but, you have the potential of ‘the other two’
nope, only one personality type per person (we call them predominant worldviews)
totally real…. no tricks (well, mostly, no tricks)
clarks are the Outsiders, you either are one or have a friend who is one (they kinda like the sidelines… mostly)
scotts are the Predators, not in the bad sense of the word (mostly) they’re the ones you will never overlook when they walk into the room
rogers are the Herd Members, they are totally among your friends, hell, the majority of the population are rogerian

Topic Suggestion: A) why do clarks like Tuesdays so much? 2) are you suggesting that clarks don’t like stress… you did say Tuesday was the mildest day of the workweek and clarks…

Will be back

have fun

Cynthia:

Tuesdays. Hmm…I can like Tuesdays…and Thursdays. They come in a close second.

I totally concur. About the Thursday thing. In fact, I’ll go as far as to say, for clarks, Thursdays are, more often than not, what Fridays are for the other two (scotts and rogers)

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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 4, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Autumn’s arrival, like the first doubts about a loved one, spreading its russet tendrils; smothering the lively colours of summer’s joy.

This is our weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It was created by Lizzi and is currantly* hosted by Kristi.

The theme is gratitude, the (rhetorical) convention is a list of ten and the constraints are imposed by the individual. What more could an individual, caught up in the fun of seeing thoughts take on form and shape, ask for?

A total license? Why not? See Item 5

For the Wakefield Doctrine, the following represent things the existence of which inspire and incite the state of gratitude.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine because it is a perspective that celebrates, (and facilitates), additional perspectives. and who wouldn’t benefit by additional perspectives, am I right? (lol… exactly!)

4) technology which provides almost enough distraction to make it through contemporary times un-scathed.

5) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) Simplest Description I’ve encountered: Like The Key of Solomon ( מפתח שלמה), ‘ceptin ya don’t have to wear silly clothes, fight off Pharisees or caliphs and while it won’t let you double your bank account, you can do anything else, provided you write a credible citation.**

6) Serial Stories: the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf

7) the enforced writing practice that comes as a fringe benefit to participating in the Six Sentence Story ‘hop. It’s fun, challenging and good for ya writing chops.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILALBLE (for anyone out there, reading while perched on a rail section of a socio-econ-geo-cultural division marker, curious? Want to try this bloghop out? But not badly enough to commit to a full post? Send in one of your Grats and I’ll post right here. See how it feels to see your thoughts in oled lights.)

9) our Friday afternoon walks (Una and I go around the block… at an invigorating 9 miles-per-hour)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

* canning season joke

** Secret Rule 7.2.4 ‘if they ask or, [I]f you find yourself backed into a corner, by a Reader wanting a ‘just, please, explain this Book, do you, like, make it up as you go along, or what…try the old superlative category and, by the time they read the footnotes¹ you’ll be long gone

1) …exactly! the coast is clear!