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December 6, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

Three Reasons to join us this evening on the (First Annual Wakefield Doctrine Frid Vid*) tonight at 8:00 pm EST

1) it’s cool and you’ll advance your comprehension (and therefore practical value) of the Wakefield Doctrine… after all, you’re still stopping by this blog and those Comments from other Readers totally has you nearly ready to believe that this thing is the real deal…

2) what the hell, you got nothing else to do tonight, what with that stupid restraining order that the only person who truly ‘gets’ your sense of humor somehow, for some reason got, plus there is a feeling in the pit of your stomach that is telling you to lay low for a while and as much as you hate to spend time by yourself, your instincts have always been pretty much right

3) there does seem to be more and more people treating this personality thing like it was an accepted and not laughable joke and so maybe, since there is nothing to do tonight other than plan your schedule for the chores and other activities for the weekend and… that business of the Wakefield Doctrine having been trademarked….they don’t give those out without a lot of scrutiny and meeting a pretty high government standard

Reasons enough?

Stop by later in the day, I’ll put up a ‘video invite’ especially for all you ‘oh-I-don’t-know-sounds-interesting-but-it-seems-like-it’ll-be-hard-to-do-and-what-if-they-all laugh-at-me’ Readers out there.

hey, it’s Friday night and we’ll let in you on a little Doctrine-based insight…if you’re still reading this, you don’t have a whole lot of other things you’d rather be doing this Friday night!

you say, ‘hey! Doctrineaires! I’m a very busy roger… I’ll attend but only if I get personal invitation!!

all righhtt

* yeah, just pretend it rhymes oh yeah…. you get the google+ and you download the hangout app (works on your phone too!) and you leave a comment here so we can send an invite or…just search the hangout thing for us or the Facebook

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‘…of worldviews and language’ the Wakefield Doctrine (…images in search of a Post)

December 5, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

Two things today: a) reminder for the Frid Vid tomorrow evening at 8:00 pm EST (we use google hangout for the vid connection, let us know that you plan to attend and I will send an invitation, which should show in your google+ once we’re live) 2) continuation of the explication of the implication of the application of the principles of the Doctrine for the purpose of self-developing oneself.

hey Reader! you do realize that this ‘Wakefield Doctrine as self-improvement tool’ ain’t gonna be easy, right? no, I’m quite serious. It is probably the most challenging thing a person can undertake to do. Now, since I am admittedly out to try to get everyone on the planet to learn and use and enjoy the perspective that our little personality theory has to offer, I will say that I am not overly optimistic. The reason I say this is that as I look around at many of the popular ‘personality theory(s)’, I see ways to approach improving our lot in life that are presented as relatively simple to use and apply, requiring only that the user persist in their efforts. I suspect that…. no! make that, I am certain that to achieve popularity and wide appeal, a program for self-improvement needs to be simple to understand and use.

…about this here Doctrine, here.

I will lay claim to ‘simple’. As far as ‘easy to understand and use’ I gots a feeling I’m gonna have to surpass on that.*

The Wakefield Doctrine is simple enough. Three characteristic worldviews, the individual’s lifelong efforts to cope (with their respective realities) result in what we here are calling their ‘personality type’, i.e. clarks (of the reality of the Outsider), scotts (those who thrive in the world of the Predator) and rogers (the majority of the people you will encounter today, that know life as a Herd Member). Three types. Pretty simple. We have descriptions of typical behavior exhibited by members of these three groups (videos even!) that can be memorized. That part is all pretty straightforward. The thing is, the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated, (yeah, I know…shit! he’s starting to talk funny), on the idea that these worldviews are real. as in real ity… and worse, in order to use the Wakefield Doctrine, to get the benefits that we offer, such as ‘knowing the other person better than they know themselves’? well, you need to put yourself inside the other person’s head. or, as we say, ‘to see the world as the other person experiences it’. Right there! that’s where you’ll find the ‘catch’ to this Doctrine thing. We don’t say, ‘see the world as the other person sees it’, we say ‘…as they experience it’. And the reason for that wording is to bring home our point, that the world is a personal affair. That, even though we are both standing on a sidewalk in Singapore and both looking at the same restaurant down the street from Michelle’s house, the reality available to you and the reality available to me, might not be exactly the same. Hell, it might be barely the same.

ya know?

and, ….and! that’s not the hard part about the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-development! OK, it’s not the easy part, we lose most Readers simply because the intellectual flexibility, the enjoyment of new ideas just isn’t there.

No, the hard part of using the Doctrine is that we all exist, right now, in one of the three realities. The other two are available to us. But they are different realities. Different. as in, not just that you like doing mathematics and watching Ken Burns documentaries… but in your world (rogers), there is such a thing as a right way and a wrong way. That does not exist in the world of clarks or the world of scotts (yeah, scotts living with actual values of right and wrong…lol). Or different in the way of clarks, who live as a person apart from everyone and everything…not being shy, not being introvert, not being afraid to speak up …. apart from. That’s the hard part of what is, if applied correctly, possibly the most effective tool of self-development anywhere to be found.

…but! someone out there said, “but! you said challenging, not hard or difficult. I distinctly heard you say ‘challenging‘ ” yes, yes I did. Trouble is, I’m out of time. Got to go to work. If you want to know what I meant when I said ‘challenging’ I guess you better join us tommorow evening on the Frid Vid (plan on having trouble connecting on the first try… I’ll be on early and on the Facebook ( ‘clark scottroger’) hit me up if you are running into a problem.) 8pm EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yclRjptWlW8

* a famous statement by the progenitor roger, actually the first noted/recorded instance of a rogerian expression. read about it here on the page for rogers (at the bottom of the page)

of clarks and scotts the Wakefield Doctrine (‘correctly infer the worldview of the other person and you will know more about them than they know about themselves’)

December 4, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

easier said than done? no! just not nearly as difficult as it may seem at first. in fact, here’s your first lesson: today’s ‘subtitle’? two of the personality types will express skepticism and criticism, but one (of the three) will say, ‘where do I sign up?’ Based on these suggested responses, can you tell us how the three worldviews would manifest our subtitle, such that it is clear that the (aforementioned) response(s) are the only appropriate response?

Hey! come back! no! don’t run away!

Quick now, if you’re a scott or a roger, then you are halfway towards the door just because of that last sentence. Give me a minute… one short minute and I promise you that you won’t regret it. Look, granted that sentence was a tad convoluted, but so what else is new? You’re reading frickin blogs, for christ’s sake, tell me you are shocked by sentence structure that may be a little on the confusing side. I didn’t think so! Well, ask yourself this one question and I promise to not try to keep you here. ok? is it a deal? Fine. My question is this: ‘knowing that this blog is a personality types blog and all, why are you still reading?’ ( Answer is: because a part of you senses that there might be something here in this Wakefield Doctrine that might be useful.)

Back to our opening question(s) as to how our three personality types would respond to today’s subtitle:

scott (male) “...hey, buddy! you visiting earth any time soon? (laughs with total eye contact)…no! hey, you’re a pretty intelligent woman, I betcha you have a lotta interesting ideas, come here, you look like you need a hug” (or) (female)“why, no I’m not sure I have ever really thought about it quite that way, and you thought of it by yourself, you are a very intelligent person to have done that… you know, I write poetry”
roger (female) “… really? and you say that people follow your blog? thats really cool. You know those comments, you they sorta sound like they were written by the same person, weird huh?” (or)(female)* ” no, I get what you say, it’s just that you’re missing one little thing, people are more than just one type, you seem to have a small group here, but I’d be careful about what you write…someone’s gonna not find it funny how you make fun of them so much. no, just want to help you!”
clark: (male and female) “…really? lets hear the premise” (or) (female and make)”ok, I get it…yeah, no, I’ll try it a while… hey nice system. I think I know just the person who really would benefit by something like this”

(And our ‘follow-up’ Question?): “...would manifest our subtitle in such a way…”

Very important concept in this phrase. What you get from reading the words, (of our subtitle), will totally be a function of your own worldview. We call it ‘manifesting’ simply because while I did in fact write those words, as part of the Post Title, you are reading them from within a context that we refer to as: a) the world of the Outsider (clarks), b) the life of the Predator (scotts) and c) the reality of the Herd Member (rogers). Notice that I did not say, ‘how you react to reading the word‘. The Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how a person relates themselves to the world around them’, not! ‘how a person relates to the world’. Key difference between the two statements. For another Post.

Back to the business of how a thing ‘manifests’ in the three personal realities. You know the old saying, ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’? This applies to the Wakefield Doctrine as follows: we are all obviously participating in a common reality, the world is round, horses have four legs, spring follows winter… and we are all able to communicate our personal experience of the events, and situations and consequences (of these common elements). However, from within my personal reality (worldview) how these elements of the common reality ‘present’, or are manifested is different from how they are manifested to a person who lives in the worldview of the Predator or the personal reality of the Herd.

Quick example (courtesy of Michelle): she recently told me that she and her father were out one day and decided to have lunch in a restaurant. They found themselves standing on the sidewalk across the street from a popular establishment. If there was a police sketch artist standing behind Michelle and her dad and they were asked: ‘What does the Blue Crane of Happy Food Swallowing* restaurant look like, the artist would render two images that would pretty much be identical. Now, if we were to ask our hungry rogerian friend and her starving scottian father the question: ‘What is that restaurant like?’ their answers would be different. It is in the nature of the difference contained in their descriptions that we find the character of their worldviews. Michelle will speak of great service, knowing and liking the people there and the meals she has enjoyed and Michelle’s 父亲 will tell about how hungry he is and what he wants to eat and how fast and attentive is the service at this place.

Starting to get the ‘manifest’ thing?

I will go to work now. When I get there, someone will, no doubt say, ‘hey clark did you get all your Christmas shopping done yet? and my answer will reflect how Christmas and Christmas shopping is manifested in my worldview, well… let me show you

* ha ha a little joke for our Progenitor roger

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Comments? yeah, you gotta problem with that? the Wakefield Doctrine ‘…now that you say that, I think I know what you mean’

December 3, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

You know how I’ve been saying that the progress of the Wakefield Doctrine began to accelerate when we met Cyndi and Lizzi and Michelle and (most recently) zoe? And how, because they have succeeded in ‘getting it’, they have been in a position to extrapolate beyond the current state of knowledge? This, combined with the effort (to increase our understanding and find ways to demonstrate the Doctrine’s value in real world application) being undertaken by Denise and Molly*, is creating new opportunities in ways that I really had not anticipated back even as little as a year ago. So, lets do a Comment Post…a sampling of the questions and insights being proffered following most Posts are very cool, so lets do this thing!

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	pictimilitude pictimilitude.com x	Submitted on 2013/12/03 at 6:15 am I like what Denise said: self-development, personal growth, responsibility to self. I have a dream of this reality, too. Where one day I just don’t give a shit and I do what I’m going to do without reservation. We wear our hearts on our sleeves and it’s so easy to get wounded…

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zoe
rewritten-redo.com

Submitted on 2013/12/02 at 8:59 am

I know you put together (with the help of others) the personality test as it were, but I think the idea of finding the perfect mate would be fun…and combine it with this idea of it could happen (ie the walking into happiness stuff) maybe you could figure out some sort of a pee test like the pregnancy tests… that would turn blue for “find yourself a Clark,” green for “find yourself a Roger,” and Black for” Just try to convince a Scott to take you on if you have nothing to offer them….”

Would love a fri vid chat… saw you were arranging the 6th maybe… I may be able to do that … wont know til wed…. the cupcake thing is goin’ down that night

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Denise Farley
girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com

Submitted on 2013/12/01 at 3:44 pm | In reply to pictimilitude.

No laughing Cyndi. You make the statement about getting a trainor and you’d better be telling us about your fabulous Christmas gift that simply wouldn’t fit under the tree!!
I knew another clark would get that non oxymoron – “clarks in motion” but I’m serious – you are. Lizzi is too although she be crazy in motion. LOL

I really enjoyed the call last night but was a tad frustrated that I couldn’t find the proper words to describe what I have been experiencing these last weeks. Thanks to the Clark for finding satisfactory ones and speaking for me. Just had a frightening visual of me ala Edgar Bergen and Clark as my Charlie McCarthy. AAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Michelle Lieu
gettingliteral.com is her site go

Submitted on 2013/12/01 at 9:14 am

I agree with Denise, we have to find that common language. Not easy with personalities that are mixed and diverse

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Lizzi; Considerer twitter.com/LRConsiderer

Submitted on 2013/11/04 at 1:02 pm

If only, if only our brains allowed those things to sink in and become realities. Ironically, I reckon we clarks consider ourselves absolutely the BEST at seeing the common-sense-undeniable TRUTH of brilliance in other clarks…

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Well! Given that the formatting involved in today’s Post has somehow consumed all my ‘pre-work’ writing time this morning, let me post this and I’ll return later in the day today.

(later this day )

The intent of those behind the Wakefield Doctrine is to further understand and develop ways that the principles underlying this personality type ‘theory’ might be applied as a tool for self-improvement. Allow me to offer one definition of self-development:

to increase the level of harmony experienced in day-to-day living, decrease the degree that stress-without-return-benefit is felt and to open (the individual’s) capacity to perceive the beneficial effects of changing the ‘status quo’, commonly defined by the routines that we all experience as we attempt to eat, sleep, reproduce and/or create, nurture the family that springs out of our connecting with others…including but not limited to: blood relatives, friends, the girl-at-the-checkout-counter, our History Teacher, the bully who lives between our house and bus stop, the girl who said, ‘no frickin’ way, it’s ain’t happening’, the scott who was our best friend except when another bigger scott showed up on the scene, the rogerian friend who gave us a sympathetic place to express our fears, the husband who we loved but no matter what we tried he wouldn’t…he couldn’t get over his own limitations, the boss at work who touches us way too much, the secretary at work who has the look of fear in her eyes, the dreams that we gave up on, the nightmares that we ran from, the appetite that draws us back in always promising satisfaction, the pastor and his belief of what we should know, the hopes of our parents, the fear of our children and the belief in ourselves that all of this is inherent in the world today.

that’s the ground, the ‘place to stand’ that we claim in our development of the Wakefield Doctrine

what? sure a little music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ahBqVuT68

* (Molly is a pretty cool example, as she has not been in direct constant contact, nevertheless, as evidenced in a recent Comment, is demonstrating this ‘continued effort to understand the world around us’ in a unique, challenging and, frankly pretty cool way)

the photo? I am no frickin idea! lol or as our resident grammatician would have me say… I have no ideas

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an open-faced turkey sandwich (with gravy) sort of Post the Wakefield Doctrine (TToT with a side of cranberry)

December 1, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

yeah, I like the title today. Unfortunately I am neither writer nor gourmand enough to pull off a ‘Grat List’ done with a menu/food item or sandwich theme. (lol… that kinda made me smile, ” WordPress proudly presents their newest blog theme: Open-faced Sandwich.) Yeah, I’m vamping* waiting for whatever it is that happens just before I start to type my way towards ‘The End’. (oh man!! I just started to write the Post, and you know how sometimes you start to write something, a story or a memory or a Post and you feel like the idea is a good one, but you need to explore it more and then next thing you know you have 789 words and then you’re like, “shit! I’ll never write my way out of this one!” and you don’t want to delete it ( 789 words!!!) so you decide to keep writing, figuring once the count gets over 1200 then you’ll be able to cut it back and hopefully, like a diamond cutter, you’ll have the gem of something that you won’t mind hitting ‘Publish’ on, you know? I’m kinda at that point.)

(wish me luck)

One: (lets, at least start with a food motif). I am grateful for cooking shows on TV, which might seem odd, seeing how I don’t cook and don’t really have a major interest in fine foods and cuisine..but then, I am, of course, a clark (for new Readers not familiar** with the personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, that just means I enjoy learning new things and watching experts (of any sort) do their thing. A qualifier here: I don’t watch the ‘competition shows’ and I totally don’t watch the shows where the ‘star’ goes in to a restaurant and tells the losers (who apparently are so desperate for attention that they are willing to be abused for the entertainment of the audience) what losers they are and the show ends with them being so grateful. I don’t enjoy the ‘cooking contest’ shows mostly because it seems to me that the emphasis in on the loser and not the winner and not in a good way. Putting the disappointment of the person who tries but doesn’t win is frickin sick. Anyway. The shows I do like? Alton Brown’s ‘Good Eats’, Guy Fieri’s ‘Diners, Drive-in and Dives’ and, of course…any show with Giada on it. There was a cooking show that I don’t see on anymore that you might enjoy, ‘Bitchin Kitchen’ very good show…here’s one of the episodes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTDxXItYCaY

Two: I am grateful to the Book of Secret Rules that Lizzi is reputed to have hidden away in a high tower room protected by … er…. Protectors!! yeah. To the best of my understanding, the only (Secret) Rule that is safe to use is Rule 1.3 which allows, under certain conditions, us to count the ‘completion of the Grat List’ as one of the items (on that list). I mention this for the benefit of anyone joining us for the first time or Readers considering joining in on the fun!

Three: Speaking of the awful world we live in… lol no, really, I am grateful to Joy over at Comfy Town Chronicles for her post, which serves to remind me of the correct decision I made years ago to simply not read, watch, pay attention to, follow-up on or any other way get caught up in how (unpleasantly) strange the world is getting. (Note: cutting yourself off from the world of ‘news and current events’ in not as easy as it sounds…but is totally worth it! …just not as easy as you might think.)

Four: I am grateful for the Word Count function at the bottom of this dashboard. It is telling me that I better hurry the hell up! I’m at 674 words and only on Number 4

Five: ‘Work the Rules’? lol yes, new Reader, there is much for you to be grateful when reading some of our Posts and the masterly ways we have of bending the Rules…(never breaking!! no!! no frickin way…I would not want to get ‘the email’ from you-know-who)

Six: I am grateful to Christine and Dyanne for having the last Posts (of the day yesterday). I work on Saturday so the time I have available to read and comment on Posts is, shall we say disjointed. So, when I get to the last third of the Posts, it’s nice to see these two waiting… as if to say “oh clark! you look so exhausted, reading all those Posts and even though they are so much better than yours…you continue on! valiantly Reading and Commenting…our Hero!!”

Seven: I am grateful for the ‘not-in-the-same-room nature of the blogosphere, which means I am relatively certain not to receive an unexpected elbow in my ribs due to my literary flights of fancy.

Ate: grateful to Listress Lizzi, for this here bloghop here. I know I’ve said it before, but the longer this weekend bloghop goes on, the more I appreciate the balance of good solid principles (gratitude lists) and creative writing and a certain element of craziness (“no, you’re welcome!). nice stuff

Nine: grateful to Cyndi and Denise for calling into the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive last night…. a) I learned more about the Doctrine itself from listening to both of them reflect on their recent experiences and 2) I am in increasing awe of the potential of the Doctrine as a tool, a perspective… hearing of their accomplishments is humbling

Tenth: yes, yes I am going to…. (come on! you all saw that coming a country mile away)

* to play short, repeating musical phrases, often associated with a musical group’s warming up not to be confused with voguing which is something entirely different…wait a minute, maybe not

** try and come here more than once and get away without learning about our little personality theory