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May 8, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

all right, enough with the fiction and the story-telling

… ok, enough with the fiction.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. As a perspective (note: an additional perspective) it affords one of the opportunity to appreciate reality in a slightly different way. And, with the proper intent, this means we can be better at whatever it is that we would be better at, in life.

We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world from one of three relationships. These three relationships are, what in less fun and useful personality schema, would be referred to as the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine:

the Outsider (clarks)
the Predator (scotts)
the Herd Member (rogers)

While essential to the understanding and use of the Wakefield Doctrine, we’ll return to the characteristics of the three later. (That said, most Readers who return to this site more than twice* upon understanding the nature of the what we refer to as (the three) predominant worldviews), extrapolate most of the qualities, characteristics, quirks and peccadilloes** of this thing of ours.

At a very early age, one of these three ‘realities’ becomes enduring. It is the world the child experiences. It is in context and (in) relationship to this world the individual develops the social strategies and styles of interacting with the world around them and the people who make it up. aka their personality.

(Note: we have but one predominant worldview. We retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’, these are referred to as secondary and tertiary aspects. For some these can be significant and therefore an element in their behavior, for others, barely there, no influence.)

The difference between this and other systems of understanding: we have the perfect personality type for the reality we experience, for the world in which we are living.

Before we leave for the day:

the ‘goal’ of the Wakefield Doctrine is to allow us to better appreciate how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.

So today: read up (among these posts) the descriptions and characteristics of the behavior and interpretation of everyday life from the perspective of: the Outsider (’cause neither of the other two wake up in the morning and try to figure what they’ll do in the world that waits them, ‘Out there’); and the Predator (hey, did you really think they’re completely asleep and that was why they’re staring at you like that, as you insist they will benefit greatly by waiting and reflecting finding inner serenity); and the Herd Member (sorry, as friendly and organized and remarkably social, you’re the one at risk, not them, they know and will be happy, no, they will be grateful for the opportunity to show you the Right Way).

Come, on! It’s more fun than you think. Wait, given the demographic of the four-time Reader, you already know that.

Warning! If you persist in learning the realities reflected the three relationships of the Doctrine, you will begin to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your everyday world. The thing of it is, there’s a real good chance that you won’t be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Tomorrow: ‘the Everything Rule’

* the first is chance, a good friend’s recommendation and/or boredom; the second is confirmation to settle the ‘no, fricken way!’ and the last: ‘huh, this person reminds me of something on that site…’

** not that the Wakefield Doctrine cares about self-reported characteristics…way unnecessary

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Too/Two/To-sday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 18, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

So, we’re in the midst of wrestling with the issue of how to approach the big Six Sentence Café & Bistro ‘Poetry Slam’ that will be happening at the Six Sentence Story bloghop the day after tomorrow.

You’re all invited to stop by and watch (aka ‘read’) the fun. Or, if you’re so inclined, participate. (We’ll drop a ton ‘o links at the bottom of this post to better spread the word.)

For anyone not familiar with the context of the venue, the Six Sentence Café & Bistro is a virtual …err Café & Bistro? Don’t want to say, ‘metaphorical’ because, while that was the basis of it’s creation and earliest iterations, it has, by virtue of the same magic that, (were you a certain age), and you were driving in your car and saw a sign on a roadside restaurant that read ‘Arnold’s’ or (switching to a more urban setting) ‘Cheers’ (with steps down from a Boston sidewalk) or in the middle of rural america and and came upon ‘the Double Deuce’ you’d know what the inside looked like before you got out of your car.

That, through the mgic of ‘repetition’ in the virtual world is what we have with the SSC&B

It’s a place to go where you can count on it being the same anytime you visit.

But that’s not the original theme of today’s post. (That said, if you need directions or interior descriptions don’t hesitate to feel free to ask: Denise or Mimi or Tom or Nick or Ford or Chris or Jenne for descriptions of the ‘physical’ setting.

but, it’s a short-post morning, so we need to be brief.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It proposes that, instead of a menu of characteristics and typical behavior and tropisms that, when assessed will result in a score that puts a person into (a) personality type, the Doctrine relies entirely on the nature of (a) person’s relationship to the world. We have three ‘personality types’: clarks(Outsider), scotts(Predator) and rogers(Herd Members). The parenthetical is the hint as to the relationship, the names are the fun part.

Anyway. We’re born with the three, settle into one, but retain the potential of ‘the other two’. (Still with me?)

The beauty part of the Doctrine is, accepting that a child can perceive themselves as one half of the three relationships, it’s not a stretch to imagine that, when I was growing up an Outsider, the behaviors for interacting with the world would reflect that perception. As a result, one can say, I have the best personality given the nature of the reality I grew up in. (New Readers? That’s where the quality within yourself comes to the fore. If you’re still reading, then one of your traits is to enjoy playing with ideas, imagining things for the fun of it and simple intellectual flexibility. Welcome to the Doctrine. Your friends on the out-wave of the swinging exit door? Don’t worry about them. They’ve already forgotten or decided this was stupid. We’ll just keep with ourselfs, ok?

damn! Still didn’t get to the topic!

The topic was to have been: the role and effect of secondary and tertiary aspects as manifested in the Wakefield Doctrine.

While we said that everyone has one and only one predominant worldview (clark, scott or roger) we retain the capacity to experience the world from the perspective of ‘the other two worldviews’. It is a potential, not necessarily an actual. Some people are all predominant worldview, others a predominant with a significant secondary or tertiary (worldview).

In the interest of time and the fading hope of tying this to the intended topic, in the context of the preceding, I’m a clark (predominant worldview) with a significant secondary aspect (scott) and a weak tertiary aspect (roger).

I’ll be participating in the online ‘Poetry Slam’. And enjoying it.

That is an example of how secondary aspects manifest, when using the additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 9, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

file photo 04/17

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Founded by L. in 1837, the TToT languished in the pre-industrial era of early-pulp, serial Dickens and a highly developed tradition of crying (in the middle of) Town.

Even then, the appetite for positive news and information was in evidence. Some citizens, in their desire to be the first to become aware of announcements and proclamations first, gathered in coffee houses and told sob stories (not of professional enough quality to be cried, but well-intentioned and full of spirit, if not technique) to one and other. This phenomenom was observed in places across the continent, the most notable being the Bavarian rathskellers where crying-in-one’s-beer became a renowned art form.

With the invention of the internet, followed soon by the first keyboards, like opera to shower-stall vocalists, the web became home to a new renaissance in writing, rhetoric and the heightened appreciation of ‘the Craft’.

The Wakefield Doctrine’s list of Ten Things of Thankful:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) yard projects chopping up fallen trees and moving them out of mind.

5) Hypograts: one of the concepts found in the TToT and few other gratitude bloghops is that of hypograts. It is, in a sense, the next level of the practice of Existence Appreciation and self-improving oneself. The TToT’s grat maven, Mimi is likely to say, ‘You’d be surprised at how closed beneath the surface of a disappointment or setback is a rich vein of gratitudinousness.’ (quote attributed, without permission of the would be speaker of… the sentence… if Mimi were asked…which she was not… but being a major holiday weekend, might not read… in which case: “Yeah, that was Mimi!” … lol)

6) The Zombie Christmas project: Episode Tree

7) work

8) something, something

9) decreasing likelihood of snow in the immediate forcast

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

April 3, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Started a ‘this is the Wakefield Doctrine’ post. Have run out of time. (We all know that’s not the problem we face every day. We always have the same amount of time, every day.) The problem is running out of energy. Not merely the ‘I feel invigorated and full of energy’ state of being. More the: ‘How can I seriously expect to succeed at…’ or ‘Screw it, a new project, that’s what I need to get going…’ or ‘If they’d of let me do it the way I wanted, none of this would have happened…’

Let dig out an old Post. There’s a day waiting out there. (New Readers? One way of identifying clarks is totally exemplified in the previous statement.)

“…as I was about to say, when I rudely interrupted myself” the Wakefield Doctrine (of blogs and book writing)

April 10, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)‘…you should write a book.’ ‘…hey, have you ever thought about writing a book?’ ‘…you know clark, what would be real good, would be if you wrote all that stuff down.’ ‘…my sisters best friends’ brother wrote a book about personality types..I think they’re gonna make it into a movie.’

You know, whoever said, ‘…easier said than done’ was probably talking about blogs and book writing. It’s just that everyone, in this demographic…the one that includes: people who write daily blogs, girls who paint, guys with cameras, mothers with children and sisters with ambition, they all seem to have the energy, the skills and the time and the energy to produce, at very least, a draft manuscript of a decent idea for a book or a novel, a memoir or an autho-biography.
As a matter of fact, the group that I joined on ‘the Facebook’ (the BB&G) were in the midst of starting some kind of book-writing marathon… the nano-mo-ho, or the whoo-hoo-write write, whatever…I recall it was a Contest, at least as much of a contest that female women, god-bless-their-understanding-instead-of-killing-and-destroying hearts are capable of…. (remind me to tell you about a sporting event that centered on one of the women athlete’s being on the verge of breaking (a) world (scoring) record… it’s a sweet story from the X-chrome side of the fence and is totally incomprehensible to the rest of us. …it involved a team sport and when the athlete was at the point, about to break it, everyone stopped playing…I mean everyone, the other team included …no! really! the opposing team stood aside so the shot could be made and the record books be re-written!! even a rogerwould shake their oft-bearded heads at such behavior. I suppose that’s why there’s no Emperor Ming-ette or Ghengis Connie or (hey, stop me if I am going on too much with this…there is a point in this here Post here… if I write enough words I will come upon it. I know I will.

I got it now!! I don’t think it’s my dissatisfaction with my efforts to take what is known about the Wakefield Doctrine and turn it into a book. At least I don’t think it is… well, maybe a little. It’s just that all the parts are there…it sits in my head every day and…and even when I am not writing about the Doctrine, someone like Cyndi or Terrye or Melanie or Janine or Amy or Jen or Kristi (newest addition to the blogroll!) or Denise or Stephanie or even the Progenitor roger will write a Comment that makes me see more of the Doctrine (more uses, more insights, more wisdom, more humor, more ways-to-win-an-argument, more ways-to-get-lucky, more skills for career advancement, more insights into the behavior of our: spouse/the kids/the boss/the ex/the new beau/the cop standing next to your car; there just seems to be no end to the ways that this perspective on human nature can be used for… and I know that I can create something that people, other than you ‘Readers-with-minds-like-steel-traps and hearts-like-good-natured-bears’ can read and understand and be glad you bought the book.

ok…guess I am done:

complaining ( did you know that most clarks don’t believe that they complain…even when we do?)

rambling on (the clark in me enjoys the end product of a Post like this, but hates the thought of how….odd it reads) (the roger in me probably is basking in the sense of heart-feltedness this may ‘read…) (the scott? don’t ask lol)

seeing my thoughts ‘on paper’

being uncomfortable about not being able to write a Post, I will now proceed to be uncomfortable about the Reader response lol

Enough… maybe video tomorrow!

…stay tuned yo

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Wednezdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 22, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick little post. Gots to try and come up with something for a Six Sentence Story by this evening. Though most of us post on Thursday, its alway fun when it can be linked in at Denise’s on Wednesday. Like finishing your term paper on Saturday afternoon rather than Sunday evening.

…but a couple of things. We sorta started talking about the Everything Rule in yesterday’s post. The rule was, in the magical way of the Doctrine, a response to an insufficiency in my presentation of the Wakefield Doctrine in the early days. New Readers easily got the idea that all of us are born with the potential to experience life and the world in three characteristic ways i.e. as Outsider(clarks), Predators(scotts) and Herd Members(rogers). And, as most of our time was spent describing each of these three personal realities, we didn’t think through any weaknesses (in our description).

As more people came and read, questions arose. Which was, like, totally, ‘How cool is this Doctrine thing?’ lol Anyway. While we did address the point that there is only one predominant worldview for any and all of us, as people started to apply the principles to their worlds, a fuzziness manifested. While we were always reminding Readers that the reality of one’s personal reality was quite…. real, it was easy to succumb to a certain Balkanization of the three predominant worldviews. Hence the reference, in yesterday’s post to people talking about behavior and qualities and traits and occupations as being exclusive to one of the three personality types.

The Everything Rule doesn’t say, ‘No, its not true that only scotts do a certain thing or rogers maintain a certain belief or clarks are always found in such-and-such occupation’. Rather is reinforces the idea of the reality of personal reality, suggesting we consider how a thing, (a job, a saying, an organization, whatever), manifests in these three different predominant worldviews. Being a carpenter, for example, is available to all three. Obviously. For a scott, what is referred to as rough carpentry/framing is often exhibited, while to a roger, (in a reality of rules and precision), carpentry often exhibits as what is referred to as ‘finish carpentry’. Both quite real and essential, one different from the other.

…clarks?, oh yeah. Well maybe walking around and talking to people about stuff, dabbling in fast food, boating and meteorology. Like that, ya know? (lol)

I mentioned ‘magical’ earlier in the post. Quite true if you knew how much of what is written about the Wakefield Doctrine ‘showed up’ as the typing progressed.

(Mimi commented yesterday to the effect that ‘Every post i haven’t read yet clears things a little more...’

am trying to find a post I haven’t read yet. More difficult that I would’ve thought, but here, one semi-random search … lets use the search term ‘forgotten’

Mimi! Dude! cha ching!

Full Disclosure: got like three pages of posts, started reading oldest first. Hit the one below, cause (given my current recovering from a cold), two words: Damn!

‘…of opposites and differences’ the Wakefield Doctrine “and his hair was perfect!”

July 7, 2014

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

…beginner Readers? you might want to skip this Post. It’s not that you wouldn’t understand today’s Post, (you would, if you are willing to trust your instinct enough and not worry about getting ‘the right answer’ and just go with what you think), it’s just that today we speak of aging and degrading, running down and getting old, losing teeth and growing fat, you know, the fun topics.

Two Questions (that are really three):

what happens when we get old or sick or injured or messed up…(way up)

which of ‘the other two’ is the hardest to ‘imitate’

This being the Wakefield Doctrine, naturally we will address the second question first. Lets use real, clarklikelinear thinking and say, of the three, where are the polar opposites? lol…yeah! clarks are capable of making that statement and, …and! thinking that it is reasonable to talk about polar opposites when dealing with a group of three. Bring on the damn Venn Diagrams!! god! I loves me a good Venn Diagram!

Alright, here, try these Polar Opposites on for size:

clark and roger

scott and clark

roger and scott

so, what we’re saying here is that the above represents the most difficult, (the) nearly impossible one to imitate/act like for each of the three personality types. (i.e. it is most difficult for a clark to appreciate the worldview of a roger, it is damn near anathema for a scott to be comfortable in the personal reality of a clark and, for a roger to live as a scott, well, lets just say they would rather do anything else than to to embrace the scottian worldview. Clear?

Great! While you’re in this Doctrine mode of thinking* lets run at the first Question (which is building off the first Answer) and say: if each of the three personality types decay, degrade, get chronically stressed out…grow old in a bad way**, then they will appear to those around them to be sliding into the worldview of:

clark (appears to be acting like a) scott

scott sounds increasingly like a roger

roger somehow, it’s really weird, but for all the world appears to be thinking like a clark

Makes sense, right? the lion (you know, scotts!!) loses too many teeth, the scar tissue from countless successful battles takes it’s toll, they will (tend to) become rogerian. clarks…growing old without developing their self-assurance first, will become scottian…aggressiveness let loose only because they can’t remember why they should care about what others think and rogers… they seem to have to the best (of all three worldviews), forgotten and left alone, they will dive into their memories, shedding the need to show the world the desirability of learning the Right Way to do Things and become content with appreciating the knowledge of the world around them.

There ya go! When you’re out there this week, shopping for groceries, trying to hold on to your job, studying hard, thinking about the future, regretting the recent past, hoping to be happy, fearing being alone, taking the kids to swimming lessons and hating how you look in a bathing suit, working hard and praying that this time it will turn out different, being afraid of being satisfied, being satisfied with not wanting more and thinking/acting/feeling like one of us, remember: we all live in a reality that is personal to us and it corresponds to the world of the Outsider(clarks), the life of the Predator(scotts) and the world of the Herd Member(rogers) but, we all have within, the potential to see the world as ‘the other two’ are experiencing it.

* meaning… this is fun! don’t worry about it being ‘true’ in every single situation, don’t be concerned if it is logically consistent, science is art if you are creative enough in your approach

** go easy on the application of the ‘bad’… and the ‘grow old’ thing? instead think of the person you know is one type but seems to morph at times into another. better yet, consider the person you know who acts like they’re doing a bad imitation (of one of the three personality types)