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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 27, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

To paraphrase an old saying, “When the teacher is in need of re-energizing, people will ask questions’

Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi, had a question in her comment on yesterday’s post…(the one that was, actually, an eleven minute video of me talking about a doctors visit and the Doctrine (of course)

Mimi: “Do Scotts get easily offended that other people have different opinions? Is that part of conquest, to make everyone think the same way you do? If so, that would explain a lot about a person i know.“

Good question for two reasons: a) the basis of understanding of the above is true of scotts requires appreciating how they (scotts) relate themselves to the world around them and, 2) the answer will enhance (your) facility at identifying the three personality types in your everyday world.*

In a sense, the best answer to Mimi’s question is ask, are we sure they’re a scott. This (question) is the foundation of good Doctrine practice. And, to try to keep this ‘answer’ intriguing, I will add ‘the reason this is good practice is because applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine is a lot like playing a musical instrument (including voice).

All people have the power to do things that will offend others. Which is almost the same thing as saying, ‘Everyone can take offense at the action of others.’**

(btw: my favorite approach to a quick read of a person’s predominant worldview (i.e. Outsider, Predator, Herd Member) is: eliminate the obvious, no-fricken-way-theys-a-clark/scott/roger right off the bat. The resultant, side by each comparison, simplifies the process, thereby speeding it up.)

Seeing how its rare that, after eliminating the obviously-not personality type, we’re left with a clark and a scott, lets assume you gots a brother-in-law (or whoever the putative scott in your question is) who might be a scott or a roger. Comparing the scottian worldview (Predators) to the rogerian worldview (Herd Members), what are the big differences? For rogers in a social interaction, everything is personal but not necessarily important; for scotts every interaction is important but rarely personal.

Being the Predator, a scott is ever alert¹ to the people in their environment² Now, lets say there’s one person who is standing out from the crowd, offering high volume opinions. This is where the fun of the Wakefield Doctrine really is,

…imagine the African savannah… maybe its mid-morning. The lion is in the shade of a Acacia tree. A slow-moving herd of antelopes passes by, a dusty flag signals their leaving the watering hole. The lion has fed her cubs, who are now dozing. Suddenly there is laughter in the distance. Hyena!! The lion notices and watches. The hyena is young, hungry and not too bright. The lion and lioness mate drop soundlessly to the ground, and step out of the shade, in clear view of the approaching animal. The hyena’s friends convince him to back away quietly. The lion and lioness return to the shade.

So! The answer is: ‘No a scott will not be offended (if by offended you mean, ‘take it personally’) at virtually anything anyone says.’ They, (the scott), might, if they’re bored enough, engage the person, you know, to have a little fun with their clearly outrageous opinions. This serves two purposes: its amusing and might cause one of the crowd to step out into the open… you know, the chase is everything.

The Everything Rule says: ‘Everyone will do everything at one time or another.’ Turn that around and say, a scott might encounter a person who offends them. The difference between a scott and a roger or a clark is that, by and large, offense is much more personal for them than it is for a scott.

* Mandatory Wakefield Doctrine User Warning! Experience has shown that once you see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, you may become unable to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life.

ya know?

** who said that? Cynthia? Denise? Lizzi? …. “The Everything Rule!! The Everything Rule!!” You are all correct. Mimi is asking the question, lets let her come to the conclusion on her own, thank you very much.

1) one of the easiest and surest identifiers is what we refer to as the scottian gaze, the way all scotts have of being aware of their environment, they are never not paying attention

2) handy tip for identifying the scott(s) when you’re at a gathering of people you really don’t know: the scott will, interact with everyone there, will be confident and will ‘push everyone on the shoulder‘… figuratively (mostly lol). A primary drive for scotts is to establish ranking (their social ordering being that of a pack) wherever they are, even if they’ve been there before… the shoulder pushing (or comparable challenge) is how they accomplish this

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 1, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

A reminder of a season to come.

Thanks to Kristi, our host, for being here each and every weekend. Surely this is one of the longer-running bloghops in the ‘sphere.

Come join us, with your own post listing the people, places or things that cause you to feel grateful. Or, check out Item 8 which is, in a sense, an updated version of, “My god! It’s Opening Night and the lead has fallen down and broken an essential body part!! Can you go on in their place?! Only one line is necessary.”

A bit sparse this week, work interfered in that special way that work can, reminiscent of childhood admonitions, “Why sure, Clark. Stay home and write your post. Your clients will understand. Here, I’ll write you a note to give them. ‘Dear Clark’s client. Now I know you think you need to sell and/or buy a house today. But he has a post to write and can’t’.

1) Una ——————————————–↓

‘A dog and her human.’

2) Phyllis———–↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Hobbomock Chronicles and Episode Eight

5) the lack of snow and it being March 1st

6) fun telephone call-in Cynthia and Denise

7) Six Sentence Story bloghop.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 ’cause life is more fun with secret rules (that we get to make up)

music

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘because, at the end of the day, it has always been about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’

February 17, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Visitors to these pages, may of late, be tempted to think that this blog is about developing my writing chops. And, they would not be entirely wrong. When you think about the history of this blog, they are actually more correct than they know. This blog, from the first post back in June 2009, has been like one of those cardboard-cover, no-way-you-can-remove-a-single-page and don’t-even-think-about-rolling-up or folding-them-to-fit-anywhere-other-than-on-the-top-of-a-pile-of-textbooks.*

It’s no secret that once I started to meet people here in the blogosphere, I became aware of the fact that this is a world of the written word. (The inkblot-shaped island, Rhetoria, off the coast of the Noticia Archipelago, to be precise.) But I digress.

While I’ve always been painfully aware of my relative lack of skills in the written word, the drive provided by the Wakefield Doctrine overcame any temptation to get all Ed Sullivan’d when I’d read the posts and stories and such put forth by the people I hung out with here and on ‘the Facebook’.

The reason there are still new posts here is that, in a really interesting and odd relationship with an idea, I’ve been charged with the task of writing ‘the Perfect Wakefield Doctrine Post’.

Haven’t done it yet. Still trying. ‘Course, having spent this much time cranking out the wordage, it should come as no surprise that, in order to practice, (‘to practice is to improve‘), I’m found myself writing stories with topics that, to new Reader, might seem to have nothing to do with our little personality theory. (yeah, hah! as if).

(ok! Perfect Wakefield Doctrine blogpost Take: 787834.x)

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people who make it our personal reality. The Doctrine proposes that we are, all of us, born with the predisposition to experience our surroundings in one of three characteristic ways. These three are:

the reality of the Outsider(clarks)
the world of the Predator(scotts)
the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

At a very early age, (way young, like, one or two-years-of-age, probably just before the acquisition of language***), we settle into one of the three. We refer to this as one’s predominant worldview. The child does not, however, lose the capacity to experience the world as ‘the other two’. And, for many, there is a certain relative strength in the un-realized worldviews. Example: I am a clark (predominant worldview), with a (strong) secondary scottian aspect and a (weak) tertiary rogerian streak.

[Damn! Gots to stop in my effort to write the perfect Doctrine blogpost. The ‘real’ world is demanding my attention.]

but…but! Before I go, let me say a single thing about the Doctrine that serves to set it apart from all the other systems and schema for understanding how people deal with the world.

From the Wakefield Doctrine’s perspective, your approach to life the best way available. Your personality type is perfect. For you. Provided you’re willing to accept that ‘personality’ is for the purposes of our discussion, a shorthand for the strategies and styles of interacting with the world around us. For your world. The list of characteristics and identifiers for our three types are but descriptions. When you grew up and practiced the ways that helped you survive and thrive, what kind of reality were you contending with? Whether you were in the reality of the Outsider or the Predator or the Herd Member, we know how you approached the family, the friends, the neighborhood, the job, the world. With an understanding of the three worldviews, we know, (as you will know), more about the other person than should otherwise be possible.

The mission statement, (as a roger might say), of the Wakefield Doctrine is ‘to better appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us’.

The goal of learning the Doctrine is to develop the ‘other two ways’ to interact with the world in a dynamic balance.

…I do have to run. Be back.

*sure, put it between two text books, hell, if you’re in a hurry to stop in the middle of a crowed corridor, put two of ’em on top of each other and then in the middle of the pile of books.**

** hypo-birthday’d Readers? This was back in the day. One carried school books under a crooked arm, from class-to-class, on and off the bus.

*** from the Doctrine’s perspective, the common expression of ‘the babbling of an infant’ is more telling than most appreciate. Before settling into one of the three worldviews, in theory, the child is in all three. Their efforts to communicate is non-intelligible, not because they’re not making sense, its just they are speaking a language we’ve all forgotten. Call it Babelese. Makes a lot more sense, “How cute! Little clark is Babeling at us as if he could talk”

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Pre-Nova Anno* -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 30, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

*just in case you forgot which blog you clicked on…

Surely this internet is every bit a Charles Atlas ad for clarks the world throughout (younger clarks? the photo at the top of the post should get you started.)

Hey! Just a minute, before you read any further. There are certain premiseses appurtenant in the most fundamental sense to the use of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for enhancing one’s variety of perspectives and self-improving oneself, and they are:

the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral
the Wakefield Doctrine is age and culture neutral

Perhaps expanding on this will also serve as an outline of our little personality theory.

The reason we can say, ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral’ is that each of the three ‘personality types’ are descriptions of the personal reality one is experiencing. This is not a list of qualities, traits and characteristics of any individual, like all those other mix ‘n match, which-personality-type-do-you-hope-the-score says-you-are. (thats right, I’m looking at you, Oscar Meyers Briggs and Stratton schedule. INFP this.)

The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that we, all of us, grow up (and most importantly), develop our abilities and strategies for survival in one of three characteristic worlds, aka personal realities. They are:

the reality of a clark (the Outsider)
the world of a scott (the Predator)
the life of the roger (the Herd Member)

In simplest of terms, it is the nature/character of the worlds we grow up in that determine the way we interact with the world and the people that make it up.

This means that, when we use the Wakefield Doctrine to better understand people, we first observe their behavior with an eye towards understanding how they (the other person) are relating themselves to the world around them. Using the three personality types as a lens, we determine which (of the three) their acts and attitudes, beliefs and intentions are ‘clearest’. (You know, how, when you’re at the eye doctor and they make you look through that round-periscope thing and then change one lens at a time “Is this clear? Now, is this clearer than that?”)

You watching and thinking, “On the basis of the way that person is interacting with (fill in the blank) is it more consistent with being an Outsider(clark) or a Herd Member(Roger)”. Continue your observationing. Now they’re talking to the person (fill in the blank), “Is that conversation sensible from a scott(Predator) or a clark(Outsider)?”

The Wakefield Doctrine is all about acquiring an appreciation of ‘how I relate myself to the world around me’*

Charles Atlas? I identify more with the guy in the drawing. But it is my relationship to world as an Outsider that is useful to know, not gender. We’re lifeforms first, then clarks, scotts and rogers.

And….and! there’s this thing here called ‘the Everything Rule’ which states: ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’. This serves to remind us that, sure a roger could get sand kicked in his or her face. Hell, a scott could get sand kicked in his or her face. How they relate themselves to this occurrence is very different.

Thanks and a shoutout to Denise over at girlie. She posted an old Doctrine post on the Facebook and it jump-started this here post here.

* as always, I will say, ‘We said, how I relate myself to the world around me’ we did not say, ‘How I relate to the world around me’

Big difference, yo.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘tell me one, immediately useful thing this Doctrine can do for me and I’ll Comment.’

July 29, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

I have, for reasons un-examined, come to think of Monday as Cynthia’s Substitute Class Day. (You remember. The substitute teacher, (short-term substitute, not long-term; there is a total difference between the two, the former a clark or a scott, the latter a Roger), would start the class by saying that she/he would pick up where the regular teacher left off, and then ask the class where that was.)

Cast your mind back to, say, either the third or the sixth or, if you’ve done your reading, tenth grade. All three stages in your school life will serve quite nicely. So when the substitute teacher asks, the responses from your class were as follows: the first two from rogers, the third, a scott and the fourth and fifth, a collaboration between a clark and a scott.

Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Let’s listen to music while the more fastidious among us (no, not a bad thing, roger, not a bad thing). The selection today is inspired by Phyllis from an early morning conversation.

Alright, back?

The most useful thing to be derived from an understanding of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine:

We, all of us, live in a world, experience a reality, that is, to a small but significant degree, personal. Nothing exotic, psychotic or otherwise weird. Simply personal. (Here, try this: you and I are standing on the sidewalk across the street from a popular local restaurant. It is the beginning of lunch hour and the restaurant is already crowded. Just as I’m about to say something about personal reality, we hear a voice. It is an acquaintance of both of us. Their tone is one of surprise. Neither of us believe that quality. I smile. You laugh.) In the scenario in parentheses all three people see the same restaurant. All three experience the ‘lets go have lunch’ quite differently.

That is half of the ‘immediately useful’ thing.

The other half is that we all experience the world from one of three perspectives, that of:

the Outsider(clark)
the Predator(scott)
the Herd Member(roger)

The nature and character of the three predominant worldviews is distinctive and different. Understanding all three will allow you to gain a sense of how the three luncheonnaires above are experiencing the prospect of crossing the street.

Learn the worldviews and you will be in a position to know the other person better than they know themselves. All of what you need to learn is in this site. Maybe next post we’ll consider the nature of the three worldviews.

Miz Cynthia!!! Miz Cynthia!!! I know! I know where the teacher left off!!!