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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 21, 2026 By 6 Comments

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

Man, Misky is on a roll! (No, there is no such thing as ‘too many apples on one’s desk, thank you very much’)

To her thought experiment:

I’d like to test a theory, please. Is there a rogerian genre of music? I could listen to Einar Selvik all day, and I often do, but I think this might be a scottian thing.

To prime the rhetorical pump, our Reply:

interesting idea.

(Allow me to be the strict Doctrinairien first: there are genre of music that will appeal to one predominant worldview more than the other two in a noticeable way. And, since I’ve never taken being strict to much to heart, there is the question of ‘is music created/composed by a clark/scott/roger distinguishable by virtue of composer’s personality type?’)

damn! (and thanks) your suggestion is totally deserving of a full AP level Wakefield Doctrine post.

in the meantime, an exercise: what do you think/what’s it make you want to do/how does it make you feel? its being this Einar Selvik’s music

ProTip: if one is inclined to explore oneself for the purposes of better self-appreciation, using the Doctrine is a fun way… this exercise, which can be found in most instances of taking up the alternate perspective of everyone’s favorite personality theory and use it illuminate parts of ourselfs that we usually don’t take the time to consider…

ok!

Before we start, anyone want to jump in?

Mimi:

It’s been such a long day I’m not so sure I’m following everything well. Maybe tomorrow.

(Saturday Morning Cartoon screeching car-tire sound: Here)

Thank you Mimi

Thank you Misky (for your patience in our less than maximally-focused Reply to (your) Primary Comment)

 

Hey! You wanna hear one of the lesser promoted benefits of learning the principles of this Wakefield Doctrine thing?

If you open yourself to it sufficiently to acquire a functional understanding, it (the Doctrine) will have an effect on you.

What? We forgot to tell you that?

No we didn’t.

(ish)

Just the other day, Denise, in her contribution to the TToT, Replied to a Comment by Ms. Pie who had mentioned how interesting a certain personality theory was (Hint: it rhymes with Wakefield Doctrine). By way of passing along one of the original Warnings to New Readers: ‘If you learn the Wakefield Doctrine sufficiently enough to allow seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers in your own life, you may find that you are unable to not see them, in your everyday life.’

Good advice indeed.

What does this have to with our point? Think: Re-do All the Exam Questions Upon Hearing: ‘Five More Minutes, People’?

Simple.

If you’re a clark (or a scott or a roger with a sufficiently strong secondary clarklike aspect) then you have a drive to make sense of the world around you and the people who make it up.

So you go through your day applying the three lenses (the relationship each of the three predominant worldview maintain), to those in your life. Fine. At some point you’ll observe someone who has the same ‘personality type’ as you and… a moment after your cringe/laugh/sneer it will occur to you…

but we’ve said too much already. .

 

ed. we will return to Misky’s thought experiment as soon as we get back into concise, clear and direct mode’

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 4, 2026 By 8 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

The beauty part of this here Grat bloghop here is that the Rules (ten things?) are suggested for the sake, (and benefit), of a certain consistency.* It allows ‘new’ participants and old ‘participants’ to relax and write in a familiar environment. Whereupon we can totally mix things up with unbridled creativity (we’re looking at you, cai! lol) So write whatever you care to and try to stay in the Key of Gratitude.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) speaking of the Wakefield Doctrine. encountered a great illustration of a person’s secondary aspect having a clear (and beneficial) effect and influence on a person, i.e. Phyllis. She maintains that she relates herself to the world around her as does a Herd Member, making her, in the more informal parlance of those who versed in the Doctrine, a roger. She does, however, have a significant clarklike secondary aspect. As a roger she knows how things are properly (and consistently) done, aka the Right Way. (a clark, less so lol). Buying a holiday floral arrangement the other day, she came home with:

…given the clarklike leanings of most Readers of this here bloghop here, we will say one word: ‘Audrey Junior’ and leave it at that. (It takes a little extra effort but the original film by Roger Corman can be found. Here’s the IMDb link to help.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) reasonable chance that will we not have a major snowstorm in the near-term future

7) Before and After!! (Grat: to simply be able to rake the leaves) Our resident pitcha maven, Misky might have a pointer or two on sharpening up the …focus

Before

After

8) weather this weekend appears to favor our finishing the pond damn repair project this weekend. the schedule is critical as the ground is warming and once certain lifeforms manage to put on their six or eight shoes and socks and venture out, we need to be long-gone. (Hey! this allows an example of a Hypo- Grat** We leave of glasses in the house!! lol the world subsequently becomes a little indistinct… which is entirely the point!)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* the full quote, Mr. Emerson, if you would:  “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines…” from ‘Self-Reliance‘

** a feature we daresay no other Gratitude bloghops have… the citing of bad people, places, things and events provided the positive outcome is cited (for better explanation check in with our resident expert, Mimi)

music vids  Hey! theme this week? instrumentals in which the style or tone of the guitarist is immediately recognizable

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 23, 2026 By

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

So, sure, let’s address the matter of self-improving oneself with the aid the Wakefield Doctrine.

On third thought, what say we read words that were, at the time, perfectly good words to convey the notion that since we have the potential to experience the world in one of three ways, i.e. as an Outsider (clark), Predator (scott) or Herd Member (roger), we already know the answer.

(Extra credit to the clark who just said, “Well, duh.”)

(Extra, extra credit to the clarks who turned to the other Readers and, laughing said, “You’re not fooled, right? This is an outdated answer to the question of self-improving ourselfs. It’s not a ‘potential to experience the world (a certain way)’, it’s the willingness to change our fricken’ relationship to the world around us.’)

(Being a wise, and, we might add, very definitely not unreliable Narrator, we hasten to add… “Sure! Go get in ever one’s face and be all aggressive and such, like any good scott would. But don’t forget the simple fact: they have practiced all they lives to be a Predator. After all, anyone one with the money and the space in their homes can buy a Marshall stack and a Strat and try and play some Hendrix….” We will not insult the putative intelligence of our Readers by going into an explicit description of the outcome of this endeavor.)

Are we saying, ‘Don’t bother, you can never be an effective (fill in the blank for one of the other two relationships with the world around you)?

Kinda

But…but!! The whole thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is, first and foremost, to encourage and nurture acceptance of the notion that all reality is personal. And if there is any lesson every pre-adolescent child learns and almost always forgets: two of (this pre-adolescent child’s friends) see and live in the world different from the one they were bequeathed by the parents and family unit.

Sorry, had to get a little ’round about in that last section. It’s ok, Readers, you can look on the answer sheets of your neighbor. The one not trying to hide their answers and the one not holding them up… the clarks.

awright! dodged another guilt round in the live action, role-play call Real Life.

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 14, 2026 By

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Established in 1866 by a charwoman’s daughter in an attic apartment on Thrawl St in East London, it has been published continuously since. (Well, allowing for a certain fallow period, awaiting the technology required to make the TToT a household, wait, this quote better says it: ‘Familiar in his mouth as household words‘ ) So, join us with a list or, simply, with your attention as we band of bloggers share a recitation of the people, places, things and events that make us feel grateful.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the momentary lapse in the crushing Winter, earlier in the week when it got into the seventies…degrees….Fahrenfrickenheit!

5) DST Daylight Savings Time (no, it doesn’t mean those ants among us can store it away for next late-November/deep-December) …but still

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) 21st C technology and the Wakefield Doctrine see: Yesterday’s Doctrine post.

8) A lot less snow than at the writing last week’s TToT

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)

 

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Freyedaya -the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

March 13, 2026 By

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

For something a little different on this Friday, a post describing a practical(ish) application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine. To the end, as always of the effort to enhance one’s appreciation of how (we) relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up

The set up:

Annual Awards Luncheon in an upstairs meeting room in a local restaurant. Being new to this (real estate) brokerage, we suspended our ‘no mandatory social engagements’ rule. (Note: prior to joining this company we shared our disinclination for the social activities involved in our business. Fortunately, we had worked with the principles on transactions for many years, so they were very un-surprised.)

The crowd: pretty much mostly rogers. (Such is the real estate business) An array of tables, a podium and, being the 21st C a large computer display, designating the front of the room.
Note: while this post is intended for clarks and, more to the point, a sharing of an experience clarks can identify with, there was nothing about our adventure that would stand out. No, ‘Watch the introvert at a luncheon. When they sat down at the keyboard, everyone was shocked!’
As it happened, the table we sat at was near the door and empty. Everyone else had already clumped together. And it was not an isolated table, rather was on one of the aisles, we. were able to meet people (as they walked past) and talk to those we knew. Nothing too ‘Why is that person by themselves over there?’
Anyways, so we’re sitting there, checking our email, (as were the majority of the others at one point or another), and it struck us: ‘Damn! This is surely going to make the TToT this week! Not the Luncheon so much as our gratitude for the technology that provides the creation of a ‘ghost conversational group’ for the hypo-social…aka clarks!
So we sat, with our friendly smile on two second delay… and did what all students of a certain personality type theory would do: Practice! Watch the people.Listen. Observe. Try to identify their individual predominant worldviews. Although the room was mostly rogers, the Everything Rule never stays home.
ProTip: scanned for the scotts, first* …’cause easy and fun! And then, since we’re serious about our practice, looked for the clarks.
Finally, a bit of an epiphany:Sitting by oneself being concerned that you might be regarded as weird and/or strange, ( in the Quasimodo sense, that is), only turns up the blue** on the color wheel/makeup board.
Note to the rogers and scotts among our Readers today, it occurred to us that, aided by technology, we could smile on occasion (not laugh…not good to laugh lol) and, in general allow ourselves to enjoy the moment. And…and by doing so, blend in with the others.
Thanks! Wakefield Doctrine.

* Insider info: by and large, the top producers in real estate are scottian females and rogerian men. There are several posts inherent in that assertion. Perhaps another day.

** clarks have a certain affinity for the apocryphal story of ‘the Blue Monkey’. (Ask in Comments)

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