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TToT #20 (in the 30 Day Challenge) the Wakefield Doctrine “a day through the passenger’s side window”

September 20, 2014 By

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

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The week we will start both with the first Item (of thankful) and the ‘raison d’être’ for this weekend’s TToT Post. (Well, I’ll explain just what the hell I mean by that, and no, I cannot simply say ‘here’s 10 things and a buncha pitchas’)

1) I’m grateful for the symmetry of the worldviews, (for those of us aware of such things).  I’m referring to zoe’s Pictorial Post of last week that. It came to mind as I was, not-quite-consciously-trying-to-figure-out-what-the-hell-I-was-going-to-do-for-a-TT0T-Post-this-weekend.  I thought, ‘well here I am, driving around for the entire afternoon, maybe I can do something clever with photos’. ..and I was all, ‘hell yeah!’

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2) the subtitle to this TToT Post refers to the various bodies of water you would have been able to see out your window if you were with me yesterday afternoon.

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 3) I’m not certain that this Post is going to work quite the way I envisioned it. If it does… I’ll be rather grateful to z (and the others in this ‘hop who regularly employ photos to enhance and support their TToT posts)

4) Nope! ain’t gonna work!  I’ll be out of gratitude items way before I run out of pictures of the view through the passenger side window of my car.

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5) Might as well get ten items down, then I figure out what to ^*^# do with this forma…. oh, damn! yeah!  …I am very grateful for the technology, both hardware and software, that allows me to take interesting photos as I drive around in the course of my work day.

6) I am actually quite grateful for either a) hardcopy maps or, 2) my brain that did not let itself be pulled down a frustrating path. (Yesterday, my travels took me to East Overshoe, CT. A town I last visited about 5 years ago. Before I set out for the day, I looked at google maps online…(right down to street level, cool in a creepy way). I thought I knew where the house was. It wasn’t. I drove around a bit (which in a rural area can surely use up the time), no luck. I thought, ‘that’s why I have a phone (and a tablet) ! lets just pull up the map’. No Signal.  So I drove in search of a signal. No Luck. Feeling chagrined (and a bit pissed off), I resigned myself to having to make the trip again the next day.  As I was looking over my shoulder out the back window, in the only driveway for miles around,  my eye caught sight of a large-format, plastic-spiral-bound book on the backseat floor.  My old map book! A once indispensable tool-of-the-trade in the real estate business, there it was, looking a bit tattered and frayed…. I had a way to find the house and I didn’t have to drive 35 minutes back to cell range.

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7) I am also grateful for the quality in my brain, personality, or clarklike worldview that resulted in;  my taking the book (from the back seat), opening  it to the appropriate Town, and before I started squinting to read the tiny street names,   doing that odd 2 finger spreading thing that enlarges the print. At least 5 times. I started swearing at the book (while laughing…there in my car, alone, by the side of the road, on the outskirts of East Overshoe, CT) god, I crack myself up, sometimes.

8) The Home front yard landscape project is complete. At least the part where someone else does the work. Now we have to keep the dirt watered so that the grass, hidden underneath will grow and turn the front yard all green and such.

9) Very grateful for the discussions that have been popping up around the Doctrine (in the Comment threads). It is both challenging, gratifying and enjoyable.  Often surprising, (to me), how well-grounded in the principles of this here Wakefield Doctrine many Readers are.

10) I thought to end today’s list with a hypo-grateful item. Specifically, my disappointment in not being able to format my ‘passenger side window’ photos, the way that I had originally imagined it. This is a rather clarklike form of disappointment. No! wait! This week’s video post tried to explain the concept of ‘manifesting’ as an integral part of the Doctrine, lets use this disappointment as an example to illustrate this concept.
So I had plans (for the future) and I was disappointed. Happens to everyone, right?  Of course it does! The importance of ‘manifesting’ in the use of the Doctrine is predicated on accepting that this ubiquitous emotional-circumstance  is a different thing for each of the 3 personality types. Not simply: a clark reacts to differently or a scott responds to the let down one way or even the roger feels such-and-so about it. It is the same, but different for each of the three by virtue of ‘how the three personality types relate themselves to the world around them. Here:

  1. a clark is said to ‘eat their futures’, this is meant to imply that anticipation is so very highly accentuated, that when the (future) realty finally occurs, a clark feels like they’ve been cheated or deprived of something that we’ve worked for and, even earned!
  2. a scott on the other hand, does not spend all that much time in the future anticipation phase of our illustration here. They, by and large,  will ‘roll with the punches’…”hey! lets have fun with this anyway!! Hey!” ( Try this: she drags the antelope that she brought down, across the savannah about 4 miles in the noonday sun, back to her pride.  No sooner does she throw it down in front of the hungry pack, that the possum playing gazelle jumps up and bounds away. The lion(ess) doesn’t sit and bemoan the unfairness of it all. hell no! she looks around, (if anyone is even beginning to smirk, there is a paw-across-the-muzzle in their immediate future) otherwise, it’s ‘oh well back to the hunt’.
  3. a roger…well, one word: ‘Miss Haversham’

That’s it for today.

 

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Friday the 19th!! the Wakefield Doctrine ( “yeah, I’ll fall on my knees, raise up my right hand…” B.B. King)

September 19, 2014 By

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

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We get a little technical and theoristic in today’s video Post, so, while you’re still reading this Post (like your grandfathers would have read to your grandmothers, “...Abigail, I have long meant to express my feelings.“)

Lets get all Socratic and FAQ-y on this here personality theory here.

Q: Are you serious with this whole ‘personal reality’ thing?
A: As serious as a clark before a First Date.

Q: Your personality theory has only three different personality types to account for the billions of people on Earth, isn’t that rather simplistic?
A: No. No it is not. And besides, we don’t say that there are only three personality types.

Q: You don’t?
A: No, we don’t.

Q: I’m sorry, but I’m fairly certain that I’ve read, on countless occasions, the statement: “…of the three personality types, the three personality types.” Are you sure you did not make that statement?
A: I did not make that statement. You weren’t listening. We talk about three worldviews...

Q: …oh, yeah,  your realities that everyone has a different one of
A: I think we can stop with the attempt at clever FAQs now.

Q: Wait!  Wait!…. one more, I’ll be serious I promise!
A: …..

Q: What is the point of this all?
A: …all?  What all?  the blog, this 30 Day Challenge, the Wakefield Doctrine….. ?

Q: yeah, all of that.
A: what makes you think there needs to be a reason or a point or anything….

Q: wait a minute! you almost had me going with that last…. wheres clark?!  what did you do with the clark behind all this!?!
A:  ….precisely

…that’s it for today. Hey!  New Readers?  the following is a video post, which if this was a cooler, more rogerian blog, I would be presenting it as a podcast. (which designates a video as more than ‘driving-my-car-why-not-get-a-Doctrine-Post-done?’) In any event, this might not be the best place to start.

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Post# 18 (“…ah to be 19 again!”) the Wakefield Doctrine (rogers invent time machines but try to get a scott to go, clarks want to go but are just the lab assistant)

September 18, 2014 By

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

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I was going to write about how much the Wakefield Doctrine has changed me and altered the path of my life, for today’s Post.  However, seeing how I’m actually writing this yesterday, ( ‘right now’ in the parlance of Time), it’s only natural that we should discuss ‘Time Travel and the Wakefield Doctrine’.

(Before we get any further into today’s Post, (be sure to Comment and tell your friends to read this here Post here), allow me to review two concepts that are part of the underlying principles necessary to a full enjoyment of our favorite personality theory. They are:

  1. ‘everyone does everything at one time or another‘  often I will hear people say, ‘oh man! that’s something only a scott would do’ or,  ‘my cousin is a firefighter, isn’t that a rogerian job, he doesn’t strike me as being a roger!’  The ‘everything Rule’ is there to remind us that, though the Doctrine tells us that there are three distinct personal realities (aka worldviews), we are all still living in a common world. In this world,  there are Firefighters and Fisherman, Surgeons and Gardeners, Prostitutes and Politicians, Teachers and Children…. clarks and scotts and rogers are all of these things and everything else. The (observed) effect of having a particular worldview  is not simply that a scott will approach a job or a hobby or a romantic date differently than would a clark or a roger,  but the thing that she experiences, the dang an sich, is manifested in accordance to her worldview. It is this ‘manifesting’ that is what allows for the different worldviews to interact with the common worldview and still permit the individual differences to be expressed. Not only can we know how a certain thing might manifest for a person, given their worldview, but we can also predict how the person will experience and you know that means!
  2. ‘manifesting’ is what accounts for how we will experience (any part of life) and therefore, to an extent, the range of choices available to us…. ( you want an example in real life? well, do you?…then go to our friend Christine’s blog and read this Post  and keep in mind (like we need to tell you…lol) she is a scottian woman. And just in case you are tempted to think,  ‘but that’s obvious! she’s a scott! Go and see how a certain situation manifests to a roger. Kristi has a Post that could have been titled, ‘A Brief Insight into the Thoughts and Feelings of a Well-Balanced roger on a Typical Day’  here…. read this Post.
    ( I would cite a Post written by a clark but…. talk about your ‘coals to Newcastle‘ !  lol…. check these out: Lizzi (pick a post…any post) or zoe, (interesting for reasons beyond the scope of this Post) or…Denise or Cyndi.  G’wan with ye now.

As today’s Post’s subtitle implies, the adventure of traveling in time, where it possible, would be a different experience for each of the three worldviews. rogers, being the technically gifted (they are the reason that we have computers and reliable airliners (yeah, so I’m like 87 years old with that expression) and the natural engineers. Their time machine would look something like:  time-machines-through-er-time-20100325065957774

a clark, well while clarks know an awful lot of things and, are the genuinely creative (of the three personality types), will attempt to forestall criticism (and laughter) by fashioning a machine that will simply look cool and thereby obviate the probing questions, such as: ‘how does it actually work?’ and, ‘does it actually work?’. Their time machine would tend to look something like: article-0-15B29EB6000005DC-602_634x430

While scott (though not inclined to take the time to build an actual time machine), would simply find one and hot-wired it to take his/her friends on a joyride in: 1000_Time-Machine

That being said,  this Post is about the Wakefield Doctrine, not time machines.  Then again, if the Wakefield Doctrine is all that it’s cracked up to be, surely it could predict how a concept (and common) day dream such as ‘If I could travel back in time and retain my experience and knowledge, yet inhabit my younger body, with no one around me being any the wiser, I would…..

…out of time. So, tell us how you would use Time Travel. (You don’t even have to tell us your predominant worldview… your Comment will tell us that, thank you.  lol)

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the 15th Post of the ‘More is More’ Post Writing Challenge! the Wakefield Doctrine lets talk to the clarks out there

September 15, 2014 By

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

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Anticipation is a curious affair for clarks. I would dare to say that most clarks might be identified, at a fairly early age, by their attempts to ‘make sense of the world’, in how they perceive and relate to the experience of disappointment. A show of hands now, please! If you are a clark (or have a significant secondary clarklike aspect), I’m willing to bet that you came up with a ‘Rule’ or ‘Law’ that applied, not only to managing anticipation, but also formed a rudimentary scheme for self-improvement.  My own effort (in early adolescence) to deal with anticipation and disappointment was referred to, as ‘the Law of Reverse Expectation’. I say ‘referred to’, because it, (the Law), was not something that stayed in my head, no! it was an observation and it was, (I felt at the time), an insight into the nature of the world and I was willing to share it with my best friend. I really thought that I was on to something, and spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about how I might use this insight to increase my enjoyment of life and decrease my disappointment (with life).

[New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is all about understanding how a person ‘relates themselves to the world around them’1 There are three characteristic ways to do this:

  1. as  predator (scott) where the world is about immediacy (immediacy in action, in thought, in feeling), the world, for a scott, consists of prey and pack, dominance and submission, thrive-to-survive
  2. as a member of the Herd (rogers) the world to a person relating themselves to the day is one of a quantifiable and knowable place, where there is a right way to do things and the highest calling is to share with others that which one has discovered (to be a Right way), for rogers 2 + 2 = 4  ….always
  3. as Outsiders  clarks relate (themselves) to a world that is ‘out there’…apart from. A clark lives in a world where knowledge and reason should be enough… and since they are aware of being  different, they spend their lives trying to discover and understand what it is that everyone else clearly knows and understands.

we have a saying, well, yeah we have a lot of sayings, but the one that goes here best is:  ‘clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.’  Anything confusing about this or other aspects of this here Doctrine here…just ask.]

…so, back to the topic of clarks. The Wakefield Doctrine is beginning to demonstrate a practical value. Of course, the Doctrine has always been intended as a tool to understand ourselves better. However, the use of the word, ‘better’ is not intended in anyway to imply superiority to other perspectives, rather, we mean,  ‘in addition to how you view the world, try  looking  at yourself (and others) from this perspective’. The Wakefield Doctrine does not offer Answers or  ‘the Truth’.  All we say is, “hey Reader! if you imagine that those scotts are, like predators in the wild and rogers are the stable, moving reliably Herd and, over there, that rustling of the underbrush? …clarks! If you look at people and the way they behave, from this perspective, you will:  a) get a little more insight into their lives and 2) have fun and laugh (on occasion) and ruefully smile (on other occasions)”.  But I started this Post talking about how we are, of late,  seeing a very definite use and value from the Doctrine.  What? you mean I did not say that?…well, I was thinking it!  lol  Given that I’m on a Post-a-Day schedule, it might be best to save some for tomorrow.

 

 

1) the wording here is important, we say ‘how they relate themselves to the world around them’ not ‘how they relate to the world around them’  big difference, ya know?

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Number 3 30 Day Challenge (old saying: “teach a child to speak and they will lead , teach a child to write and they will be revered, but teach a child to read and they still won’t know”)

September 3, 2014 By

Wexlome to the Wakefield Doctrinos (theory of clarks, scotts and rogers….and Pythagoris)

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(Photo courtesy of Alex Mouzas, friend of mine who went to Greece with a Wakefield Doctrine hat (for his damn κεφάλι) According to the email, this photo was taken somewhere in Papingo.)

No matter how clearly you remember your days in the 2nd (or First) Grade, you still can’t fit in the chairs. And the thing of it is, I defy any of you out there to swear that, that first time you got to go back to such an early grade classroom?  (and we all did, even if it was a totally different school), you didn’t try to sit in one of the now-tiny-desks.  and yet, while that experience made the scotts laugh (and actually force themselves in the desk meant for a 7 year old and the rogers stood to the side and laugh and allow themselves to be convinced to try it themselves, which delights the scotts because that provides them with the opportunity to stand up and be a giant-tall-person. (the) clarks watched and observed but didn’t  join in the fun, preferring to wait until the group, (taking the Welcome Back School Tour together as a group), has moved on to the cafeteria,  then standing in the back of the empty class for a brief moment, then walking to the front of class, (the better to be able see their younger selfs).

…hey! you want to know a secret?  There are times when I think, ‘clark!…dude!  now you’re simply taking your own personal experiences and labeling them ‘clarklike‘ and adding them to the characteristics of the worldview of the Outsider!’  But …but! there are times when I think,  ‘holy shit! all those other people can’t have had so a similar experience and subsequent reaction to (fill in the blank)… wait a gosh darn minute! they’re just pretending to…so they can laugh and stuff.’  Fortunately, I know better now and don’t worry about that kind of thing anymore. …sort of

the Wakefield Doctrine: ‘you can’t break it and you can’t get it wrong.’

yes, I am totally serious. ‘You can’t break it’ This Wakefield Doctrine is (in part)  simply a set of characteristics (of people everywhere) divided into three groups. Whats to break? you could say, “yeah but!  clarks are really the most accomplished seducers of women (and others)”  and your listeners might glance at each other to see if this was one of those ‘hey! no hating…they mean well, let them go on with this and eventually they will learn…or not’  moments or everyone will start giggling (mostly at the mental image of a clarklike Lorathio/Lorathae)…   (“hey baby, want to see my phrenology chart?“* or “why yes, that is a little spiked collar on my cat, her name is Cindazilla. want some Somalian chestnut-scented tea?”**)

as to the ‘you can’t get it wrong’… well, you can’t. Remember, ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is about you, not them’.  The reason most other home-remedy-quality personality theories don’t work is that people read about personality types and immediately try to make the people around them agree to play the parts that the theory says they should. Now, I’m not saying you can’t say things like, ‘excuse me, you’re a scott, right? can you suggest the best makeup for this plaid sports coat with torn denims over lingerie outfit I have on?…. I have a beautiful pair of barbed-wire earrings, if that helps’  or  ‘hi roger. do you think those people you always have lunch with in the cafeteria would mind if I joined you guys?’ you can  but the Doctrine will tell you about what will happen even before you try it.

enough for today. I understand there’s a whole world of people out there and, I (have come to accept), that I can’t stay here all day.

 

* true story …except the ‘hey baby’ part. [it is actually one of my personal goals: to learn to be able to say ‘hey baby’ to a woman (friend or otherwise) without getting a response that includes: a) giggling or 2) that look…

** I have personally known clarklike females (back in college days) for whom this line would be greeted with not the slightest hint of surprise.

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