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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘of popularity, self-promotion and ‘the everything Rule’

December 19, 2014 By

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

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A little ‘light reading’ for this, the most lightest of Workweek Days…. Friday  (courtesy of the gang down at the Wakefield Doctrine)

The question is this:

  1. can a person become popular without the talent/capacity/capability to effectively self-promote themselves
  2. (“...what does this have to do with personality types, Friday and, since we’re asking extra credit questions, what the hell is ‘the everything Rule'”)

Great question!

Allow me to answer the Second (and totally un-authorized) question first: the ‘everything Rule’ (short for: ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’) is a reminder, to those of us who would use the Wakefield Doctrine as intended, (and not as way to figure out our kids, get our husbands to stop with the constant….or get lucky in study hall), to remember that the Doctrine is predicated on the notion that we all live in one of three worldviews. For example: I grew up (and developed my skills and strategies and interpersonal coping mechanisms) in the worldview of ‘the Outsider’, as a result, if you were to observe me today at work, you would come to the conclusion: ‘hey! he’s got one of those clark personality types that the Doctrine warned us about.’  One of the cool things about the Doctrine, is that we do not need to know about traits and tastes, habits, hobbies and interests in order to assign a personality type. Instead, we observe a person’s everyday behavior and infer how that person is ‘relating themselves to the world around them’.
The goal is to determine which of the three worldviews one is living in, (the Outsider/clark or the Predator/scott or the Herd Member/roger), once I know this, I know more about you than you know about yourself. All without a single survey question! Cool, non?
….anyway, the ‘everything Rule’ simply states that, while we all live in the same common world, i.e. the world of Nightly News with Brian Williams/the world of 19 year old Checkout girls who look at you and even answer a direct question without ever, for a second, actually seeing you/the world of surly car mechanics/the world of oppressively kind in-laws/the world of hopes that exceed any possibility of being realized yet cannot be let go of because what would your life be then/the world of the internet and websites that are flashy and full of banal, insipid advice on how to live life without the slightest hint of an original idea to distinguish it from countless other popular websites…  our personal experience is…well, personal. Of course, this being the Doctrine, we take that common sense observation and say that the very reality that I live out today in is different, that although we clarks live in the same world with scotts and have the same things happen to us as do rogers, how these things ‘manifest’ is different for each of us.

manifest: (ex.) Christine and Lizzi and Kristi are riding in a car one night after going to see a really great show. Suddenly the highway behind them is filled with flashing blue light… (common enough experience, right?) . The experience that unfolds for each of our three friends is going to be different.  No, really.  How this encounter manifests is distinguishably different for each of them, from start to finish. The experience will manifest according to the character and nature of their respective worldviews.

damn!  off on a tangent again.

popularity:

  • for clarks it does not exist, it is knowable and observable, but it does not exist
  • for scotts is a fact of life, it is useable and enjoyable, but, in the final analysis, of no account
  • for rogers it is necessary, essential and expected…like saying to a person, ‘hey beautiful child you have there, isn’t the gravitational attraction of the Earth great today?’
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-the Wakefield Doctrine- (“I’m not just the Doctrine writer, I’m a follower too!”)

December 18, 2014 By

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

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Woke up this morning feeling a bit…pre-aggravated.  Looked around, nothing to write about. Sat in front of this here computer here and… still nothing. The thought then occurred to me that this situation is not all that uncommon (well, alright, not uncommon among clarks) and there is something that the Wakefield Doctrine has that would be helpful (to me).

…still nothing.

Now, I’m starting to get pissed off. (yeah, I know….progress!)  Finally I went searching the blog archives for old Posts and stumbled upon the one below. As I watched the amazing video clip/illustration of the personality types, I realized what I should have remembered as soon as I woke up: ‘I am responsible for how I feel’.
“Hey!!! but…but!”,   astute Readers are trying to yell at their computer screens, unfortunately before they’ve finished swallowing that last sip of coffee, leaving caffeine-based punctuation on what they’re reading,   ” but!!! you’re a clark!!  you’re not of the world of feelings! you are a fish behind the wheel of a large automobile“!!
When it comes to emotions and feelings and such, I am indeed, ‘a fish behind the wheel of a large automobile’, fortunately for me, I have the Wakefield Doctrine to remind me that, though I live in the world of the Outsider, all seemingly intellectual and not all feely and such, I do have, within, the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’.

I began to feel a little…. not better, more  ‘ok, there’s something that I can do about this‘…. which, as we all know, is my scottian aspect asserting itself. Our friend Christine is, at this moment, muttering at her computer, “damn straight, yo” , (or words to that effect.)
Of course, we all know that part of the conflict within clarks, when feeling ‘pre-aggravated’ is a result of the resistance of their scottian aspect to the notion of simply letting the world roll over us.

Hey, this has been good for me, but time to get to work. I am leaving y’all with a re-post from way long ago… it’s about scotts.  You all know a scott. (If you’re a clark, then it’s your actual best friend, if you’re a roger, then it’s your current favorite best friend… and if you’re a scott, it’s your clarklike best friend, though you won’t think that at first*)

(from November 10 2011)

The Wakefield Doctrine  has a thing about looking at people, you know, how they act and stuff?  …we guarantee that if you got the smarts to understand this, (and not everyone does),  then you will know more about that other person than they know about themselves.  Pretty frickin cool, no?  But if you’re looking for one of those,  “Six Ways to get any Boy to Like you” or  “Satisfy the Woman in your dreams!! ”  or ” How to get your Boss off your back!”  self-improvement things  then stop reading. Right now.
This Wakefield Doctrine thing is so not that kind of personality theory.  (Not saying that you won’t be able to ‘satisfy the Woman in your Dreams’ or ‘get your Boyfriend a Job’), just that what we have here takes a little more….  flexible intelligence. So.  Read already!

No, the Wakefield Doctrine is not like those other self-development books….the Wakefield Doctrine is fun and it is useful and it is fun…

Today we are going to talk about scotts!  (Want to get a quick overview of the Doctrine?  go here and read….be sure to come back!)

scotts, scotts scotts!  where to start?   … hell, it’s Thursday, lets take the easy way out just to get the ball rolling, so to speak.1

Some bullets points relating to the nature and character of the scottian personality type:

  • scotts are totally emotional but in a way so very different from rogers,  mercurial is the right word for the emotional characteristic of scotts
  • scott   in a band?  the ‘front man’ every time  (don’t believe me? go look at the photo of the progenitors, click here  those three mugs were in a band together (yeah, I know!) and can you tell me who the front man was?…hell  you know which one is the Progenitor scott without anyone telling you, don’t you?)
  • at a party scotts will  introduce themselves (…..to everyone)
  • when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee
  • scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, …hardly ever both.  (ed note: 2014  ‘ha ha’)
  • (female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (go ahead….ask us why)

Seeing how the scottian population is, of late, growing here at the Doctrine, lets cater to the their totally famous short attention-spans  and use a video that shows us a scott doing what they do best!  Watch and learn, binyons!

How scottian was David Caruso’s character? how clarklike was DeNiro’s character?  and the cop that backed down to the scott?, not toorogerian !  Hell! he was the only one in the scene to have a hat on his damn head!
So lets review:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.    scotts are often wrong, but never uncertain.  scotts make good leaders, (at least when decisive action is required…when long-term objectives take precedence over short-term victory…not so much).     scotts are ‘the life of the party’… scotts are the best of joke tellers and are natural mimics.  scotts will feed on rogers and enjoy the challenge of clarks… scotts will give you the shirt off his back/ the use of her boyfriend but will not tolerate being ignored… they are un-selfish and short-sighted… ingenious and stupid…  emotional and shallow… sexy and predatory… endearing and dangerous…  get the picture?

 

1) that’s a joke for the scotts reading this

 

* meaning…if your back is to the wall and you’re going to have to go up against overwhelming odds, your clarklike friend is your best bet… most of the time, passive and half asleep, get them riled up and they be crazy

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Qucik response Monday! -the Wakefield Doctrine- (‘yeah, I do start every day with the Wakefield Doctrine on my mind’)

December 15, 2014 By

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

Drexel (who, fortunate human, Kristi, is part of pack with)

Drexel 

Two purposes for today’s brief Post:

  1. to follow-up on an Item in  Saturday’s Post that elicited several very good Comments
  2. to see if writing a Post, (with a certain deliberate intent) can serve as a way to focus my outlook on the current day
  3. because it’s fun and if I’m ever going to learn to do this writing thing as good as them folks I read, I guess I better practice, right?

The Item:

as a clark, I find that when I’m walking to the mailbox in the rain without a coat or in December without shoes, it helps me realize how important it is to appreciate what is. That I am not in a hospital bed, or in a wheel chair or in the house because I am not able to leave…. I find that I ‘enjoy’ the harsh feelings of the 30 degree morning in part when I can know that it is a very real possibility that someday I will be in a place where I look back on (these days) and wish to anything that I might again have the opportunity to do something as silly as walk to the mailbox without shoes or a coat in December.

The Comment:

Knowing cold does make one appreciate warm more. Maybe I need to walk to the mailbox in bare feet so I can appreciate the heat of the sidewalk in summer time?  (Kristi)

It is an interesting way to remain grateful for what you do have and an interesting way to create memories to look back on. That walking in the cold to the mailbox. Maybe a little masochistic .  (Fangboner)

It may seem odd for me to say that I agree with the first and (feel) the need to explain as to the second Comment.

This exercise (the walking, not the writing) is about leverage. In the world(view) of a clark there is a form of disconnect between the rational and the emotional. Not an absence of emotions and not a control of the rational. Both are quite there, simply not integrated….  wait, that’s getting too  er  clarklike.
Try this:  clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.  yeah! that’s better.
The world that I woke up to this morning is a world in which the rational is the medium of expression for me. While for, say Kristi, the world is, among other things, a world in which emotions are the medium (and, possibly the message). Fine. Both equal, not being compared as which is better, they just are that way.

You know that thing about how there is one predominant worldview and we still have ‘the other two’ within? This is what the barefoot thing is really about. I know that I ‘live in my head’. I know that while that is the way it is, it is not necessarily the best way to live. So, while I might know this, I ask myself how do I alter it?  no, learning more about how to live is not the answer!  I’m already learning the shit out of things.  Anyone? Dyanne?  ‘Stop thinking and just live!!!’  yes, that is one answer.   Kristi  in her Comment actually gives us the answer, in her choice of words.  no, not the ‘knowing’ part. the ‘appreciating’ part. the emotional aspect of the experience.

(For a clark) to do what we’re talking about, requires emotional leverage. To find a way to generate feelings(emotions) in concert with knowing something.
I get that I should appreciate the day I have today. I understand that I should not act like I’m immortal today*. I know that the littlest thing I do and say and encounter and share today, may very well be a thing of priceless value to me someday. I know that there will come a time, when I’m on my deathbed and I (may) have a moment to reflect on my life. A life spent inside my head is not a bad thing, but it is not as good as a life spent thinking and acting and feeling.

ya know?

Thanks to Kristi and Fangboner and the others what Commented at the Doctrine this weekend.

 

* a reference to something that Castanada had his character don Juan Mateus say about living in the present and making decisions not as if I would get a chance to do it again, rather to act as if it were my only chance to act.  At least that’s how I read it.

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clarks -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…and the world out there.”

December 9, 2014 By

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

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you know the weirdest thing about clarks? It’s not the funny little half-smile you see on their faces when they’re in the group you’re addressing, (and you know, for certain, that you have not said anything funny), it’s not the odd way that the female contingency  (mostly the women,  but not exclusively), choose to dress…  like a Fire Engine, bristling with emergency rescue equipment….painted a soft blue, it’s not even the way that clarks will be so quiet, even…no! especially when things all around are getting crazy…crazier …craziest, they seem to be apart, almost as if the (current) desperate situation that has the rogers fretting and the scotts shouting, causes them to grow… more, more of whatever it is they are…

…no, the weirdest thing about clarks is their morning time. (This is not necessarily literal. It is, necessarily, the time between demands and performance. The offstage moment, as the house lights go down). That is the strangest part of ‘the experience of the world from the personal-reality-perspective of clarks (the Outsiders).
It (seems) to be a time of choice, it is (often) a time of desperate hope, it is (always) a time of incredible … distance.
This distance is not as common and simple as physical distance (although, have you ever been in a crowd of people, say an elevator, where your attention is dominated by, say the floor you are intending to travel to, and then you notice that there is a person standing very-next-to-you? you wonder briefly how you could have not noticed them), and (this distance) is not an emotional gulf between people (although, there are times when you are prepared to accept that the person you care so much about  just is not invested in the relationship, and then you see an act of selflessness that takes your breath away), no, the distance is none of these.

the distance (for a clark) is the amazing and awful, frustrating and inspiring distance between the clark and themselves. They think (and think about thinking), they act (and appreciate/regret it as it occurs), they feel and wonder if it’s real.

Tuesday.

(jeez  good thing it’s dark and pouring rain outside!)

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Post #1 of the Work Week -the Wakefield Doctrine- (well, because that’s where our personality is under the harshest light)

December 8, 2014 By

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the Workplace and the Wakefield Doctrine

Rule 1: Know your predominant worldview

Rule 2: Accept your predominant worldview

Rule 3: Know the predominant worldview (aka personality type) of the people around you

Rule 4: Remember! ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’

Rule 5: don’t forget: ‘when the going gets tough, the cause of it is coming from within’

Rule 6: Don’t get aggravated or annoyed, belligerent or beatific, avoid becoming caustic or (overly) conciliatory and, for god’s sake, don’t let yourself believe that you would feel any different, if only ‘they wouldn’t be like that‘!!!  No, I’m totally serious! The simple, unavoidable conclusion, when you take all that this here ‘personality theory’ here holds true and apply it to the life you lead, in the world around you, is that, when it comes to feelings and moods (and their illegitimate children, ‘attitude’), you are responsible for how you feel today. That’s the bad news. The good news is that, you’re responsible for how you feel! So, instead of letting your stomach twist itself into all sorts of interesting shapes, write a Comment here and let those of-a-like-worldview get aggravated for you!

The rest of this Post was to have been footnotes to the 6 Rules. They would have been fun and funny, insightful and aggravating.  However,  I’ve changed my mind and instead will instead  try to keep it simple and under 500 words, all in the interest of my getting to my own workplace on time.  The thing of it is, the personality type most likely to see that the Doctrine as applying to their world, is also the personality type (aka worldview) that will have the most difficulty ‘getting it to work’. At the same time, the ‘other two’ personality types will have less of a sense that any of this is necessary, paradoxically they will find the insights relatively easy to apply!  go figure, huh?

Well, since you put it that way… we have. and, big surprise, the personality type to see the Doctrine as useful and difficult is/are those Outsiders (clarks). But, while it takes them a little longer, the benefit will be all the greater/more significant! Just so you scotts and rogers don’t go away empty handed, or feel that this Post favors clarks, I’ll let you in on a little secret: the most difficult part of using the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself is that the key lies in recognizing others of your own worldview, observing how they act and interact and accepting the fact that their actions (and interactions) are simply their best effort to deal with the world as they are experiencing it.  (I just lied. the real  ‘most difficult part’ is to see another person of your worldview and realize that you are living and acting in the world pretty much as they are… for better or worse, ya know?)

Ok! less than 500 words!

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