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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 28, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Today:

Of clarks and attachments

(‘… on being an Outsider in a world of furniture with slipcovers and shelves of un-read books’.)

We all know that clarks, in the scheme of the Wakefield Doctrine, are the Outsiders. The term most-often misapplied is ‘introvert’. This does little justice to either personality type. In one case, it condemns the person to passive restraint, (in) the other, deprives them of an attribute that almost makes it it all worthwhile: genuine creativity.

That said, what sets the Wakefield Doctrine apart and, in turn, sets the bar so high for those who would take advantage of the value of the additional perspective it offers, is the notion of personal reality. When we talk about predominant worldviews, (of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers), we are talking about reality, as experienced by, (and limited as such to), the individual. (Note: nothing terribly original or shocking here. The notion of the ‘vivability'(lol) of subjective experience of the world has been thoroughly documented, (if not under-appreciated), by generations of experimental psychologists, aka rogers). (lol)

Seriously. The value of the principles of the Doctrine only begins to make itself available after you’ve accepted that the world, and the people who make it up, are subtly, (but significantly), different for everyone.

Which brings us to the other quality that sets the Wakefield Doctrine apart: everyone has the perfect personality type. For the characteristic reality/predominant worldview, they faced as a very, very, veriest young human. (Imagine, back to the world before language, consisting of motion and force, light and darkness, hunger and fear surrounded us.)

The point is, if you grew up and developed your social strategies, (aka personality type), in the personal reality of the Outsider, or the Predator or the Herd Member, you would fit the profile as defined in this personality system. (Lots more to this, including secondary and tertiary aspects, but need to get back to clarks). Suffice to say, the world you experience is real and your reactions and responses are appropriate.

What are we to make of the subtitle to today’s Post?

clarks are people who go through life making the inanimate live and the secretive submit to discovery, revealing what the investigator wants to learn.

We’re Outsiders. Our primary motivation is to learn what it is that, (nearly), everyone around us, from since before we remember, have been taught. The secret of being a real person, the formula for belonging.

(btw Pro-tip? clarks are afraid of nothing but are ultimately fearful of scrutiny.)

The reason is simple. We can’t understand why it is we are Outsiders. We had no intention to be apart from the people around us. We just discovered it to be true. (Hint: remember that thing about personal reality? 99.99% of people don’t quite believe that this thing, personal reality, is real. Sure, they’ll allow, it’s real to the person as part of their belief/delusion, self-deception, but there’s only one reality, the real reality they’ve experience uninterupted. Unfortunately, this deprives them of the flat-out, super-power, of perspective. To know that the world can be many things.)

Anyway.

As a consolation prize and to keep us hoping that, if we don’t succeed in learning what everyone else has known since childhood, we are creative.

…maybe if we come up with something everyone wants, they’ll let us join them.

…to be cont’d

Monday-Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Monday morning.

This Day in Doctrine posts!

…ok. I’m back… a lot of digging through old files. It took almost three years of Doctrine posts to find one written on May 3rd! But…but! what a find!

Given how, were we to continue to search for ‘This Day in Doctrine posts’ we’d totally have a bunch of them. Well, not precisely. Seeing how there remains only eight more May 3rds possible… but that’s not important now.*

What is important is that our find, our reprint today is the post that provided a new level of understanding of one of ‘the other two’ predominant worldviews.

Specifically, the rogerian worldview.

Note to New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is, among other things, a map of a nearly unreachable world(s). We, all of us, grow up and develop in one of three realities: that of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers). The Doctrine describes each so that we might infer how one relates themselfs to the world around them.

(And when you learn these descriptions sufficiently, life becomes much simpler…. you go to a friend’s garage workshop and you see the shadow-relief outlines of tools on a pegboard over the workbench… like victims of the Hiroshima atrocity and you suddenly realize that you friend is a roger or, standing in line at the supermarket, one person is heard above the fairly subdued background conversation and you watch as they cut ahead of the line. This is not. however, what has you smiling at the thought of ‘that weird personality theory blog’ that your odd friend insisted you read the night before. What has you smiling is the person cutting in line, he’s telling jokes, people are laughing, hell, they’re stepping out of line in the hopes that he’d stop in their section of the line. What a scott!)

Where were we…. maps! Right! The descriptions of the three worldviews are like a map. You will recognize the streets when you walk down them. You will not see inside the houses and buildings…unless, someone from the area invites you in and that is what happened to this post written on May 3rd 2012. The result of this post (the discovery is detailed in subsequent posts.**

The take-away. What this post lead to was the discovery of the principle of ‘referential authority’. It is a major dynamic in the worldview of the Herd Members. What it wasn’t was ‘visible’ from the basic descriptions of the predominant worldview of rogers.

We discovered this ‘artifact’ as most discoveries of un-seeable objects are made: by inference. When we went to the rogers in our readership at the time and asked, ‘Well what did you think of the three possible responses to the scenaria?’ And they, the rogers, were, to a woman, “My god!! They can’t do that!! It’s an insult to the owner. That job applicant should be arrested!!”

Needless to say, the ferocity of the objection by rogers for the clarklike choice in the first scenario was a total “Hey!! Look here…closer!! There’s something going on here that is specific to the rogerian worldview.

Cool, non?

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

Today we present the second in our series of Posts that look at the process of interviewing for a job, through the lens of the Wakefield Doctrine. In each of these Posts, we will set up a job interview scenario, each in a different business sector and look at it from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine. The underlying question throughout will be, “what insight does the Wakefield Doctrine provide that will allow us to improve the chances of success in being hired in each of these situations?”

In our First Post, “Won’t you have a seat, Mr Andrews will see you in a moment“, we examined the strategies available to a person seeking a position in what is often referred to as ‘the corporate world’. In that first Post, we focused on the ‘pre-Interview’ phase of the employment process. With today’s Post we will stay with this convention, as it seems that, if the first episode is any indication, most Readers find the Applicant’s efforts to deal with the appointment process entertaining and instructive. Subsequent Posts in this Series, will include interviewing for positions in the Manufacturing Sector, Service Industries and Small Businesses.

Small Business Environment:

….a small restaurant, in a small coastal town which is also home to the State University. With only 10 tables and an open kitchen layout the Owner, (who is also the cook), is able to greet and interact with all the patrons. It is quite clear that he enjoys what he does, is reasonably skilled and, as a result, the business has grown rapidly. The increase in business has been surprisingly rapid and the Owner is finding that the part-time help from family and relatives is insufficient, and so the Help Wanted: Waitress ad in the local newspaper.

…The Interviewee:

The wife of a faculty member at the University, after a Sabbatical from Field Work, you have been unable to find employment in your area of expertise, Paleo-sociology (and) Urdic Languages. Rather than spend another summer in the overly large home that you and your husband share with two cats, you decide that being a Waitress wouldn’t be the worst thing you could do, at least until the market for Sociologists (fluent in farsi) improves. So you call the number in the newspaper and get an appointment to meet the Owner. Wearing your best Interview suit (a subdued brown pinstripe) and carrying your trusted iPad, you set off to the restaurant, confident that you will be able to recall your undergraduate days of work-study working in the school cafeteria.
(…. oh! do we need to mention that you are so a roger?)

(First Interaction)

The Restaurant is quite busy for 10:30 on a weekday morning. All but 2 tables are occupied, the Owner can be seen at the grill cooking, stopping to look up and wave as you enter the restaurant. He waves a spatula in the direction of the empty table near the door and goes back to cooking. There is a woman standing at the cash register, ringing out a customer. She looks up, frowns then smiles and says, “You must be Emily! To be honest with you, I’m really kind of busy right now, but I left an application on that table over there, if you want to get started I’ll try to get over to you in a minute. We’re really kinda swamped right now”.
Looking over to the table, you see a single sheet of paper marked Application for Employment

Do you:

Sit at the table (not before taking out a tissue and wiping off the table top) and begin to read the Application for Employment

Decide that the Owner should have paused at least for a moment, and come over to properly introduce himself and even though the woman at the cash register seems nice, they are both being rude, so you turn around and walk out of the restaurant

Pick up the dishes from a recently empty table and take them to what appears to be the kitchen…

The Question: if you are a roger what is likely to be your first reaction, which is the most effective strategy for getting this job. Which of the three personality types ( clark or scott or roger) is the woman ringing out the Customers? Please submit your answer (along with the reason for your picking the personality type) in the Comments section at the bottom of this Post

(Second Interaction)

…you have been sitting at the table 15 minutes (30 minutes later than the scheduled interview). The ‘breakfast rush’ has finally quieted down and the woman at the cash register brings you coffee, asks (again!) if you would like something to eat and tells you that the Owner will be over in a minute.

Do you:

ask the woman questions about the restaurant, how long has it been in business, what background the Owner has in the restaurant business

Look annoyed and ask her if it is always this busy

smile, hand her the Application for Employment that you have completed (and somehow stapled your curriculum vita to the slightly grease-spotted form) and say, “Thank you so much! I am sure that I will enjoy working here!”

The Question: if you are a roger, which of the above is likely to be your initial reaction and which, (of the three actions above), should be your reaction, in order to increase your chances of being successful in this Interview?

Well that should be enough to get us started! As with the first Interview, consider not only which of the three personality types the people in our scenario are, but tell us why you think they are (clarks or scotts or rogers )… and while it is helpful to know the correct way to get this particular type of job, add what you can about what the Wakefield Doctrine gives our Interviewee, in terms of tools or aids that will allow her to get whatever the hell it is that she wants…. (yes, Molly and Claire that is a totally leading question!)

* the whole ‘reprint thing’ is, of course, about jump-starting the wordage lobe in our brain. Today? Job done.

** what can we say, they’re all there… guess you’re gonna have to rummage through all 2300 posts

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

So, we were taking part in an interview, courtesy of our Six Sentence Story friend, D. Avery, earlier in the week. It was both challenging and fun. (Read it here.) The challenging part was over quickly enough, i.e. overruling my natural inclination to respond to the invitation with a brusque, “Err…no thank you”*.

That being said, it was fun to ‘get out’, and the members of the blog that hosted the interview, ‘the Carrot Ranch‘ are a genuinely accomplished and interesting group of writers. Ostensibly an interview with us as a writer, along with a ‘set up’ (of) an interview with a character (Ian Devereaux), the Wakefield Doctrine naturally came up. Not so odd, as many of the questions were about writing and approaches to writing.

So, as often happens when it is the topic, one of the participants asked about the Doctrine. Rebecca Glaessner, a participant at ‘the Ranch’, wrote a comment on the interview, which included the words, “… your theory of Clarks(sic) resonates deeply.”

….well!

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people who make it up. We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience reality in one of three distinctly (but secretly interrelated) separate ways, as would an Outsider(clarks), a Predator(scotts) or a Herd Member(rogers). At an early age we settle into one (and only one) of these three personal realities. The social styles, the interpersonal strategies we develop (our personality types) are in response to the world we experience it.

A clark lives in the world of the Outsider and so learns to stay out of the spotlight (while contending with a insatiable curiosity), a scott starts running and only stops when necessary, the world of the Predator not being kindly disposed to introspection and, the Herd Member, well, they’re at home the minute they look around; rogers, living the life of the Herd, belong and looking, receive confirmation there is a Right Way to do things and it’s merely a matter of completing the list for all to be right in the world.

While we have only one predominant worldviews, we never lose the capacity to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. (This will explain why sometimes, usually under duress, we find ourselves acting like someone else. Example: I’m a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. I know about a personality theory and will tell you at the slightest provocation. lol)

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

clarks live in their minds, scotts in their bodies and rogers in their hearts.

The highest accomplishment one can achieve employing the Wakefield Doctrine is to fully appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us. The guiding ambition behind learning and employing the perspective made available by the Doctrine is be able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

(Pro-tip: Search youtube for: ‘the pen scene’ in ‘Casino’ and ‘I’m gonna get you Stewart’ in ‘Wolf’ and bar scene in ‘Maddog and Glory’ (the one with David Caruso in the thumbnail).

You will be treated to a scene(s) of: a roger and a scott, a scott and a roger and a clark and a scott, respectively. Language advisory (well, one them has Joe Pesci in it, after all! lol)

So let’s end this with a simple warning: Once you’ve learned the characteristics of the three worldviews** Well, at least enough to spot the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, you may be unable to not see them.

With the Wakefield Doctrine as an additional perspective, you will know more about the other person than you should. Use this power wisely. …and discreetly.***

* lol so, what, exactly would a brusque, ‘errr’ sound like? I’d say, ‘Once a clark, always a…’ however, as the old saying reminds us, “Awareness is nine-tenths of change”

** any clark will betray their own worldview by the quickness they accomplish this. Not such a surprise, seeing how we (clarks) are all trying to make sense of the world around us.

*** no! serially! in the early days, given half a chance, I’d say to people…”Yeah, it’s like a personality theory, except better! For instance, even though we met only a few minutes ago, I can tell you what shoes you have in your closet… hey! Where you going?!”

lol

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 8, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

What good is all this?

…. meaning, the amazing consistency of behavior to type, the congruence of predicated characteristics to actual elements in reality. You know, ‘how true the three personality types are to the experience we have in the ‘real’ world’.

A lot of good if you’re a clark. Less, if you’re a scott or a roger, depending on the level of significance of your secondary and tertiary aspects.

Tell you what, being Monday, lets keep it simplest.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool. And, just like the saw and the plane, and, even the raw wood itself, they are not the hand-fashioned chair or chest-of-drawer, that is the product of skilled effort. As a tool, the Doctrine provides one more perspective on ourselfs, the world around us and the people who make it up. And, as anyone will tell you, the more perspectives, the better.

So, lets conclude this post with a fun little bullet-point list of things the Wakefield Doctrine is and isn’t, (and, it behooves all of us to help the secondary/tertiary aspect-challenged among the people around us to work through this):

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
the Wakefield Doctrine is not an Answer, (if you’re smart and lucky), however, it provides a bunch of useful Questions
the goal of the Doctrine is to better understand how we relate ourselves to the world around us
…and, in doing so, (or even the mere effort), we can see the world as the other person is experiencing it

Thats all for this morning…

Gots me a song in my head, it’ll help if I post it (misery shared is misery diminished) and let it play in your heads all day.

…thanks

Complete with video to make residual memories of younger days flash in your day-to-day world like Tyler Durden*

*most excellent movie

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 20, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

You’re cordially invited to join the Wakefield Doctrine’s weakly practice of the development and cultivation of the state of gratitude (lat. esse sui gratacious “I think, so I might very well feel.“)

Established under a King’s Grant (with subsidiary support provided by a grant from the New Worcestershire-on-Rye Chamber of Commerce and contributions from the patrons of ‘the Pig ‘n Bicycle Pub’) in January 2011 (the Winter of Discomforte) Lizzi built well, see as we can say:

Thanks to Dyanne the (fifteenth in the line of Hostinae Immaculati), for providing the links and the velvet hand (in the iron glove) that makes this all possible, if not probable.

We, our ownselfs, we’d like to crank up the Wayback Machine and take a trip back in time.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial stories: Ian Devereaux’s ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and, from Tales from the Order of Lilith, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

5) 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing Hey! Still time to sign up and follow, before we get the audio working*

6) Six Sentence Story Sure, anyone can write War and Peace when there’s no limit on page count, but lets see what Leo can do with Six Sentences (hell, we’ll even throw in a box of semicolons)

7) this is coming to you early Saturday, will return with surely the bestest of all Grat Items.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 ’cause what kinda bloghop would this be, if’n we didn’t have a Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules)?

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