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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. A grat blog that asks the timeless question: ‘So?’* A voluntary compilation of the people, places and things that we find eliciting, prompting and otherwise gettin’ in our face with a sense of gratitude. (For the thing, not our face(s))

This is our list for this early-Winter week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) safely over-exertioning

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.   Six Pix of the Week: ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll‘. by D Avery

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘corn Pick…. err Uniaminous… er. ‘Hey! Read This ‘un’   “Spawning‘ by Sally

7) Friend of the Doctrine, zoe, (also former host of the Six Sentence Story) has written a book. ‘Before They Met…‘ (listed over on Amazon, check it out).

8) tree removal… heavy wood sections from Point A to Point 2

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not really coined by Robert Heinlein, but a stand-out usage in his seminal SF novel, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land‘.

 

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“Tuesday Afternoon” -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…is never ending.”

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

Damn! This* is dry. Interesting. Bordering on witty, slipping into boredom.

See?!?! Right there!

ok. pencils down. No, this will not be on the text.

the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on life, the world and the people who make it up. It is both tool and map. (Not instructions or hot assistant wearing a provocative outfit/clothing). It is presented as a theory of personality though there is no particular drive to justify suppositions, validate inferences or don a cap and gown (or tweed sports coat with leather patches). The terminology is used to justifiy using the term personality types, of which there are three. clarks, scotts and rogers.

{Spoiler Alert! New Readers, if you’re hoping for a fun narrative, outlandish metaphors, out-fricken’-rageous descriptions of behavior set in a rhetorical setting like a turnip in a museum display of Fabergé Eggy-weggs this is not the post. Go back to this post… or this one. Read it. Come back and ask your questions}

The Wakefield Doctrine is but one of countless attempts to make sense of the world, the human condition and how-to-get-through-Life-relatively-un-scathed.

The Beauty-part of who the Doctrine is intended to help is that, (and thank god! for the concept of secondary and tertiary aspects), the only people still reading are those who have a certain quality: once referred to as ‘flexible intelligence’, at time derided as, ‘jeez will you ever stop dreaming and apply yourself‘ or, even, “No! There never was a place called Kansas. This is as real as it is ever going to get.’ In other words clarks (or scotts with a significant secondary clarklike aspect / roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect).

scotts and rogers have no particular need for the Wakefield Doctrine. Why? Why should they? Go find your (favorite, longest-standing) scottian friend and tell them about the Wakefield Doctrine. Go find your leading rogerian friend (the one who will spend time with you without requiring the presence of others) and explain the Wakefield Doctrine.

The result? They will laugh. (And we’re intending to characterize this reaction as laughing / laughing.)

The reason? As scotts and rogers with the minimum level of clarklike secondary aspect they enjoy what you seem to get out of the Doctrine. But, on the most fundamental level, they’re fish puzzled by your fixation on this ‘water’ thing (or quality or secret insight), if only you’d keep a consistent description, but hey, that’s the thing they like about you. You’re so crazy …and you don’t try to compete.

So what the hell is this!!! ?!?!

Thank god we sent away the New Readers!

Where’s the good-natured fun, the silly metaphors of the early years?

Here’s a question: (Despite the voice in our heads going all, ‘You know what they’re gonna say man’).  Do we look upon our change in writing style as a deficit or an asset. Clearly our posts are far more self-aware and, arguably less fun/funny. But, what about the New Reader? Do we assume they’ve grown up over the years or do we need to incorporate the early style into our current in the hope of providing an insight into our little personality theory that is sufficient to the task of providing enough for them to start seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers in their world?

… tomorrow we’ll return to the task of discussing why practicing seeing the Wakefield Doctrine at work in your own reality will dramatically enhance the benefits you derive.

ya know?

 

* renewed resolve to present the Wakefield Doctrine to a new generation of Readers

 

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

Where were we?

(Wait! Don’t tell us! We got this one.)

oh yeah. Here.

What that was, and this (post) is, is all about writing posts for the New Reader. A visitor, perhaps link-following from our primary bloghops ( the TToT, the Six Sentence Story or the Unicorn Challenge), taking a moment to see what this ‘Wakefield Doctrine’ is all about.

The goal is twofold. a) to see how we would explain our little personality theory compared to how we did at various points over the last fourteen, fifteen years and 2) to re-capture the simple joy and exhilaration of those early years when everything was a topic for a post explaining the Doctrine and the provocative jostled with the careful-not-to-offend like two pre-adolescent boys trying to impress a girl despite not being able to explain their determination.

lets jump into the middle, shall we?*

The Wakefield Doctrine posits three personality types:

  • clarks (Outsiders)
  • scotts (Predators)
  • rogers (Herd Members)

so, do we think we can recapture the energy and spirit and such that produced Readers saying stuff like, “Wait! What did you just say about living life as the Outsider was like being a detective that had to solve a crime while preventing everyone else from know their identity and mission?”

Having an established, if not educated, Readership is far more intrusive, subversive and distractive that we realized. Huh. Interesting.**

New Readers are directed to ignore most, if not all, asterixeded sentences and such.

The three predominant worldviews are relationships. Better to say, they are the character of the relationship we, all of us, develop and maintain throughout life. (Note: while we are all born with the potential of three personality types, settle into one at a very early age.)

blah.. blah…blah

err, New Readers.

Lets start over.

A clark, a scott and roger stand on the sidewalk on the opposite side of the city street from a very popular restaurant. It is nearly noon and there is a line of people waiting outside the door. The scott is shouting and pointing at people in the line. At one point he walks across the busy street and talks to a woman who is three couples from the door. (From our vantage point we cannot make hear what he is saying, except when he laughs.) The woman laughs when the scott points back at his two lunch companions on the opposite sidewalk. But she also waves at them. Something from the middle if the line gets their attention, a frowning man, gesticulating to his own companions. The scott laughs and walks back to the obviously upset man who immediately gestures and motions with his hands, pointing at his expensive watch in the general direction of the people around him. The scott smiles. Leans as if to confide something to the man (and his immediate companions).

Back on the other side of the street, the clark watches and smiles. The roger watches, frowns and begins to cross the street but stops as a bus nearly hits him. When it passes, the scott is almost back to their side of the street. The three continue waiting. One is relieved, the other, impatient and the third makes a joke.

A little vignette to get the week started.

New Readers? Despite the genders of the characters in our little illustration, write this down: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is gender-neutral.

It is also culture and, even age, neutral. (This aspect, the age thing? Gets really facinating as it brings to the fore the effects and influences of the individual’s secondary and tertiary aspects. But that’s Introduction to the Wakefield Doctrine 103.)

 

 

*ok, right here is the first differences between the early days and the present. there was no ‘middle’ when we started. There was simply, (and this is an accurate, if not literal, description of the process of post writing) a new day and an empty (post) page. We’d sit down and see what showed up on the screen.1

** no, sorry there is no prize, hat or otherwise for “I know the predominant worldview of the writer! Because of what they wrote in that line.”

 

  1. Damn! For those following along, those non-New Readers, there is fundamental difference Numero Uno. We have a history now. There was no history against which we might write new and better ways to describe the Wakefield Doctrine.

 

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New Reader’s Primer -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

(so, the real question is: is that Prim-er or Pry-mer? Being a clark, establishing the answer, even at the cost of totally killing our opening hook is worth it. So hold on while we check)

 

ok, we’re back. appears to be ‘dealer’s choice’ on the pronunciation.

Let’s just assume that we’ve already shaken that random visitor, site-skimmer, bored-in-traffic, phone-in-hand Reader. We know, of course,  something about the people who become Readers, even before we encounter, exchange comments, or otherwise interact with them.

That said, we remind ourselfs that this Post is for them, not about them. What we know about Readers is not at issue here. What is, is writing a post that allows the new Reader to get the basic concept of the Wakefield Doctrine and begin to put it to use. One post. (The legendary, if not apocryphal Perfect Doctrine Post.)

The Wakefield Doctrine is a personality theory consisting of three personality types. Everyone exhibits the behavior and traits and irrefutable indications of fitting the description of the three:

  1. the Outsider (clarks)
  2. the Predator (scotts)
  3. the Herd Member (rogers)

It’s tempting to contrast the Wakefield Doctrine system with other, more….er rogerian personality schema by saying that the personality traits, tropisms and behavior of the mainstream guys like Oscar, Mayers, Briggs and Consonants, Allport, out our personal fave, Sheldon’s Constitutional Theory of Somatotyping (motto: “Not sure yet about ‘look-at-my-handwriting-Hamilton there, but Ben? total roger“). But we won’t. After all, this post is not about them.

where were we?

New Readers!

Yeah. well we’ve managed to shake the dilettantes, so let’s get down to the single binding concept of this here personality theory here. The real fun, the ‘hey! tell us how we can spot people by their personality‘, follows. We will provide plenty of descriptions, indications and ‘anyone doing this…’ guidelines in the posts to follow. However, it might be best you stop here and subscribe to this blog, so. you don’t miss nothin’

The Wakefield Doctrine is, first and foremost, about the relationship we, all of us, maintain with the world around us and the people who make it up. The Wakefield Doctrine says that everyone is born with the potential for (establishing) one of three characteristic styles of acting and interacting with the world. These are the three listed above, the clark, the scott and the roger. The Wakefield Doctrine will insist that everyone has a perfect personality type. The Wakefield Doctrine says that because we are not born with a personality hardwired, genetically-coded or even divinely destined to stand on the sidewalk with our two best friends and, observing a popular local restaurant across the street and a line of people waiting to get in and say: (a low-key clarklike suggestion, a happy and energetic scottian encouragement or a satisfied rogerian validation).

 

… ok. our current thinking on writing Doctrine-posts? Keep it short and to the point.

New Readers? Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. (Don’t be alarmed if you think you see an increasingly distinct, purple and blue ink club stamp on the back of your hand. We know that some of you are thinking, “Sure, intriguing, but they aren’t so organized. One more post. That’s it.)

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

The purpose of this Post is…

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Damn! The things that seem acceptable at nine o’clock on a Sunday evening. Can’t imagine the quality of weekend book-reports back in the day of residue-covered processed wood and such.

In any event, as has been thoroughly explained, (and artistically self-indemnified), over the previous 14.5 years, it’s better to write badly (poorly/un-inspiredly/insipidly/inanely), than to not write at all.

While an excuse, with intimations of grandeur, this assertion is particularly germane to the world of blogs and the avocation of blog-writing.

(Hey, so far, pretty much the same post as the one we wrote back in 2013!)

Seeing how we’re done with our current co-writing gig, (a Serial Six ‘…Of Heroes and the MisUnderstood‘), time to get back to the reason we’re finger-dancing this May morning: the Wakefield Doctrine. More specifically: what it is, what it does, how it can be used to self-improve oneself.*

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. We are, all of us, born with the drive to relate ourselfs to the world in one of three manners:

  1. as an Outsider (clarks): we are apart from, aware of it and determined to find out what it was we failed to learn (that the other two) clearly know and, in doing so be a real person
  2. like the Predator (scotts): we live to live, if the state of satiation, (with a clear and present memory of the state preceding this), were a car, the one we’re driving is stolen, the cops are on our tail and they’re pretty much bad shots
  3. so too, the Herd Member (rogers): life is good, it would, however, be better if everyone would simply agree and adapt themselves to our guidance, in the meantime, it’s all about knowing thy neighbor

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, (appliance/aid/training wheels for a motorcycle/a big-assed gum eraser in a world of multiple choice, No.2 pencil tests), with which we might enhance our lifes. The Wakefield Doctrine, as a tool (or a club-shaped mirror), is for us, not them.

Most immediately of value, the Wakefield Doctrine allows those with interest to better see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

(to be cont’d)

 

gestures the Wakefield Doctrine (like Kirk in the Tholian web, we stay here until 12:01am 01.01.14) now with half naked alien females!)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
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so my second thought was, ‘screw it, write until they stop reading’. The Plan now is to do all the things, I’ve been meaning to…. (no!  no!  I’ll get it! )   ‘blah, blah, blah’

you’re welcome.

the word today is ‘gestures’  (“…hey, man! I saw that…what the hell was that all about?”  “why, what a nice gesture, we really appreciate it!”  ” and then, the apparition began a series of frightening gestures, everyone stepped back”)

So what does this word have to do with the better understanding and more effective use of the Wakefield Doctrine?

wait!  stop reading…. for just a second. just sit there, I’ll call you back when I have my mind right.  False Start #1

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!!  the personality theory that is:

  1. unique: damn, no way I can say in less than 500 words what makes the Doctrine unique, so I’ll say it in a way that not only illustrates it’s uniqueness but will also illustrate it’s damn efficacy…. hey! did you see how
  2. useful: if you want an insight into why the people around you act the way that they do, stay with us. the Wakefield Doctrine will make it possible for you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves
  3. fun: seriously! it’s not just that using the Doctrine in your life is fun (find the nearest scott, tell them a few select things about one other person and watch the fun begin…Ed Sullivan had nothing on you!) but learning about the Wakefield Doctrine is fun in ways that we are just beginning to discover

False Start #2!!

This had better work:

hey Readers!  ever have a Post that you knew you had in you, (for the day), but when you sat down to write it you find that you are two or three thoughts away from the ‘proper’ starting point?  Sorry, that was a little confusing. Let’s try this: most of the time when I go to write a Post (not counting event-specific Posts), I set out typing in a direction that I hope will take me near the idea that will become the topic. I rarely have it in mind when I start…..

False Start # 3!!!

Screw it!  Hey clarks!! clearly this blog has stopped trying to pander to/reach out to/make an effort to resonate with the scotts and rogers among the Readers. Totally given up on developing my writing skills, at least in hoping to be able to ‘write in a rogerian style’ or  ‘write to the scotts‘.  Too ambitious for the moment. Maybe next year.

Having said that, let me be clear on this one point: we want to bring in rogers and scotts to this here Doctrine here. While we have Michelle here to speak for the rogers. I am totally grateful to her for coming around and allowing us a direct insight into the rogerian worldview. We want more. Start thinking about who you know that is: a) a scott or a roger and 2) is comfortable with the whole blogging for fun and self-expression thing.  It’s not that we need them to already be writing a blog, but take it from me, you don’t want to try to drag a scott or a roger to this blog, if they’ve never been to the blogosphere. Too much change. Neither worldview is overly big on the ‘change/novelty-for-it’s-own-sake thing. They would be of no use to us. (Why thank you for asking that, Lizzi! the ‘use to us’?   that we have the opportunity to learn-by-association. Example? Sure. Let’s say you’re a classically trained musician, a guitarist. Someone comes up to you after a concert and says, ‘hey!! you better be at ‘The Gates‘ or the ‘Cafe Wha?‘ next Saturday night. You  sit in for one set and you need to win them over’  (stay with me now, this little analogy is a bit bigger than I thought). So what would you, (Mr./Ms. classically-trained-musician) do?  Buy all the sheet music you could get your hands on, bring it along, trust that you can sight read well enough to be convincing? ….or you could  go to these bars and clubs and listen…and watch and absorb the music. ya know?

Awright. Time to get back to the ‘real’ world.  Get out there today and spot your scotts and rogers.  ( how can you tell if you have a roger or a scott?  lolled you asked!  damn!  one will put on a show of doing you a favor that you don’t deserve and the other will barely be able to hid their…. enthusiasm.)

Not to worry! I’ll get back to the more normal enticing and intriguing Posts that are such a hallmark of our blog. After all, we don’t want Jean or beth or Kate to think that this is all brainiac-central …like that episode of Star Trek with those ass-headed aliens who took Capt. Pike and fixed him up with Susan Oliver and, so,  like,  he could totally get it on for their entire race’s anemic, asexual culture’s entertainment and all… yeah, I know all this Star-Trek geek-reference is a total turn on….

 

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jeez not nearly as naked as my memory says she was

jeez not nearly as naked as my memory says she was

annoying, smug, ass-headed alien fellas

annoying, smug, ass-headed alien fellas

you wanted to know why we call them 'ass-headed aliens'?

you wanted to know why we call them ‘ass-headed aliens’?

 

 

* first secret lesson of the Doctrine: if you’re reading this you’re a clark (or a scott or roger with significant secondary clarklike aspect)**

** sure, advanced Doctrine principle, but we have faith in your

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