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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 20, 2026 By 11 Comments

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

Quick! Readers!!! Call it.

Heads: RePrint

Tails: New content.

…on three

Thanks out to Misky. She called heads and we flipped our specially-minted Schrödinger twenty-five cent piece and…

So, yesterday (and the day before, in spirit if not in fact) a discussion sprang into life as a result of Misky’s Comment:

…which leads me to wonder about metaphorical ‘appetite’ like an appetite for learning, or adventure, risk, life, speed, etc. and whether those appetites fall under a scottian umbrella. I’m mostly thinking to myself here because I’m leaning toward ‘yes, yes they do.’

To which we replied:

the fun of using behavioral metaphors (as in the Wakefield Doctrine) is that it is predicated on a person having ‘an ear’ (not musical sound but for rhetoric and rhetorical deviceseses) of course the scottian predominant worldview (relating to the world as would a Predator) includes the unrestrained appetite… especially when in contrast with the price humankind pays in terms of the conveniences of modern culture… (rhymes with rogerian)

does that mean that scotts have to have the unsubtle appetite of a lion on the savannah with a pack to provide for?

yes. yes it does!
lol

the fun and value of metaphors is (imo): life and reality being but a serial story… metaphor is developed to allow insight beyond a culture’s current vocabulary (or would that be glossary? whatevs) so metaphor is both language, writing pad, pencil and big-assed eraser (the good kind, the blond, squarish slightly crumbly type that all grade school kids wanted and rarely had)…

ya know?

So, now that we’ve had a Reader step up and break the ice on Self-Conscious Pond, would anyone else care to offer an insight/opinion/guess/conjecture or ‘what-it-this’?

If this helps: the Wakefield Doctrine insists on two things:

  • there are three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) they (all three) are a function of the character of the relationship a person maintains with the world around them starting at the youngest of ages. We all grow up and develop our style/strategy for interacting with the world as we experience it. As a result, those of us who learn and enjoy this little theory can rest assured we have the perfect personality.
  • the Everything Rule maintains that everyone does everything, at one time or another. which is to say, the three personality types (of the Wakefield Doctrine) are in fact in the same reality. anything one might think applies to one, applies to the other two. it is simply manifested differently, according to the relationship the person we are talking about maintains with the world
  • only one predominant worldviews to a person (secondary and tertiary aspects having an passing effect is valid)

so to our Friend of the Doctrine’s Comment, consider how ‘appetite’ manifests in the three

  • clarks (the Outsider) discreet sips/prodigious needs
  • scotts (the Predator) more fun when it gets on everyone
  • rogers (the Herd Member) I beg your pardon, one simply must consider not only the arrangement and setting but the very Menu, there is, after all, a Right Way

Weigh in as you would

 

 

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 14, 2026 By

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Established in 1866 by a charwoman’s daughter in an attic apartment on Thrawl St in East London, it has been published continuously since. (Well, allowing for a certain fallow period, awaiting the technology required to make the TToT a household, wait, this quote better says it: ‘Familiar in his mouth as household words‘ ) So, join us with a list or, simply, with your attention as we band of bloggers share a recitation of the people, places, things and events that make us feel grateful.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the momentary lapse in the crushing Winter, earlier in the week when it got into the seventies…degrees….Fahrenfrickenheit!

5) DST Daylight Savings Time (no, it doesn’t mean those ants among us can store it away for next late-November/deep-December) …but still

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) 21st C technology and the Wakefield Doctrine see: Yesterday’s Doctrine post.

8) A lot less snow than at the writing last week’s TToT

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)

 

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

March 13, 2026 By

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

For something a little different on this Friday, a post describing a practical(ish) application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine. To the end, as always of the effort to enhance one’s appreciation of how (we) relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up

The set up:

Annual Awards Luncheon in an upstairs meeting room in a local restaurant. Being new to this (real estate) brokerage, we suspended our ‘no mandatory social engagements’ rule. (Note: prior to joining this company we shared our disinclination for the social activities involved in our business. Fortunately, we had worked with the principles on transactions for many years, so they were very un-surprised.)

The crowd: pretty much mostly rogers. (Such is the real estate business) An array of tables, a podium and, being the 21st C a large computer display, designating the front of the room.
Note: while this post is intended for clarks and, more to the point, a sharing of an experience clarks can identify with, there was nothing about our adventure that would stand out. No, ‘Watch the introvert at a luncheon. When they sat down at the keyboard, everyone was shocked!’
As it happened, the table we sat at was near the door and empty. Everyone else had already clumped together. And it was not an isolated table, rather was on one of the aisles, we. were able to meet people (as they walked past) and talk to those we knew. Nothing too ‘Why is that person by themselves over there?’
Anyways, so we’re sitting there, checking our email, (as were the majority of the others at one point or another), and it struck us: ‘Damn! This is surely going to make the TToT this week! Not the Luncheon so much as our gratitude for the technology that provides the creation of a ‘ghost conversational group’ for the hypo-social…aka clarks!
So we sat, with our friendly smile on two second delay… and did what all students of a certain personality type theory would do: Practice! Watch the people.Listen. Observe. Try to identify their individual predominant worldviews. Although the room was mostly rogers, the Everything Rule never stays home.
ProTip: scanned for the scotts, first* …’cause easy and fun! And then, since we’re serious about our practice, looked for the clarks.
Finally, a bit of an epiphany:Sitting by oneself being concerned that you might be regarded as weird and/or strange, ( in the Quasimodo sense, that is), only turns up the blue** on the color wheel/makeup board.
Note to the rogers and scotts among our Readers today, it occurred to us that, aided by technology, we could smile on occasion (not laugh…not good to laugh lol) and, in general allow ourselves to enjoy the moment. And…and by doing so, blend in with the others.
Thanks! Wakefield Doctrine.

* Insider info: by and large, the top producers in real estate are scottian females and rogerian men. There are several posts inherent in that assertion. Perhaps another day.

** clarks have a certain affinity for the apocryphal story of ‘the Blue Monkey’. (Ask in Comments)

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…end of work-week wrap-up”

March 6, 2026 By

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

Well, that was fun! (This week’s installment in the Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, that is.) Plus we had Comments from FoTD, Cynthia and Misky, Mimi and Denise.

So… Friday, huh?

note the date. After reading the Post, we looked above the Welcome to.. and thought, damn… in the ’20s.  Then, like an apologetic childhood monster from fever dreams (back when/at an age getting your temperature was so not as easy as today),the sound of multiplication tables moved up the 1:00 am hallway, (which, at his point in the dream by virtue of the malign manipulation of time, space and fear had become at least 100 yards long to the closest non-threatening bedroom)… Math sez, it sez, “I hate to be the one to tell you this (“My god!! Math is a roger!!!)… but that was Six Years (carry the zero) Ago.”

Well, we will work on this week’s TToT and peek around the corner of this Friday.

Damn! Fridays used to mean something. It had a Power, like a benign despot, promising things it had no right to convey, yet as a citizen of the world of ‘what will be will be’… we accepted it. In return for a sense of …. the world making sense.

I repeat, Damn! No wonder we find time travel such a productive vehicle when creating fiction.

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2020

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

There’s an old saying, “Fridays are the Monday-mornings of living a full and satisfying life.”

Why the love-hate relationship between clarks and the most looked-forward-to day of the workweek?

Consider that your homework.

New Readers! While our subscriptioneers get busy organizing their notes, and make sure they have enough yellow-highlights, clear-plastic rulers, No.2 pencils and, to be ready to take the assignment-completion-process up to the next level, a supply of three-by-five index cards; (Of course, there’s a cork board and little colored pins!), lets go for a quick tour of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine starts out with three different (yet intricately interrelated) predominant worldviews. ‘Predominant worldview’ is the preferred term denoting personal reality writ large. While scraping the guardrails in terms of a distinction between what an individual’s subjective reality is and the proposition that the whole, yeah, everything, world that is considered ‘reality’, knowing the differences between the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine are essential to deriving the benefits of this unique, fun and quite useful perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.*

We’re born with the possibility of having one, (of three), predominant worldviews being established (the the ‘other two’ becoming secondary), and thereby being our ‘reality’. It (the predominant worldview) shapes, influences and serves as the context in which we develop the tools and strategies that shape our subsequent relationship with life …and such.

The three are:

  1. the reality of the Outsider(clarks)
  2. the world of the Predator(scotts)
  3. the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

If discussed in terms of personality types, the above are the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. For the Doctrine, personality type is not an assignment or a categorization based on a how many of a number of predetermined characteristics, traits or inclinations an individual demonstrates. Personality type is, for the Wakefield Doctrine, a description of how a person relates themselves to the world around them.

Learn the characteristics of the three, ask the question: “How is this person/how am I relating themselves/myself to the world around?”

The cool and fun part is the accuracy of the descriptions of the three ways to relate to the world.

There’s a bunch more to learn, but…. today is Friday. So have fun on the weekend.

 

 

* total, long-running, and favorite play-on-words here at the Doctrine… (and a totally obtuse reference to the ideas on reality as Carlos Castaneda so elegantly presented in his writings, i.e. reality is perception and the players contribute to the script, to mix as many metaphors and rhetorical devices as possible… ya know?)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 26, 2026 By

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

well, the snow is waiting outside. soon time to grab my Tantalus® brand snow shovel and get to it.

Remind us to tell the story of how it came to be that the thought of shoveling snow or, (for an even more intriguing tale) using a shovel in any application…outdoors of course.

It’s kinda fascinating, except, perhaps for those of you who: have (human) children and/or are clarks or are possessed of a significant secondary clarklike aspect.

For now our short video.

Hey! interesting veering off the path to writing a Monday post. ok, a RePrint post.

Recently we were talking about Utah and how the Doctrine were sorta pioneers in the use and abuse of impromptu videos the following came to mind. So we found the original entry.

anyway, for proof of the effects of secondary aspects on one’s predominant worldview, we offer the following.

[Language Alert!! He uses the ‘fuck’ word. Be Advised!

ed. Just watched the video. Thought it might be good to add some notes, a libretto for a non-musical opera, if you will. This video came about because of our first Doctrine business conference roadtrip. Back in 2011 or 12. On our first day in Salt Lake City, we took our rental car out to Bonneville Salt Flats with the intention of driving at hight speeds. That was not to be. The end of the video references ‘the Rite of Hat‘ which was a thing back then. (This post will have a link for ‘the Treaty of Tordesillas. That”ll ‘splain everthing._)

don’t try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll

April 2, 2011
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )Hey, I have the Right of Hat and I totally owe it to (our) Readers to stand up for the Beliefs and Principles that are at the foundation of this here Doctrine here.
So the Bonneville Salt Flats? Mine. Salt Lake City? (BYU co-eds inclusive? ditto that, good buddies). Guess that covers the useful and/or attractive parts of the State of Utah (State Motto: …‘as many wives as they want? and the Pope is cool with that?…ok come on down! ‘ ). And this is all mine by virtue  of  the Treaty of Tordesillas (ratified by the Pope in 1494). Hey, just taking what’s mine. Don’t look at me, I didn’t make this stuff up!( The country you are sitting in while reading this Post? Look around…go ahead, get up from your computer and look out your window, we’ll wait.  Thats right! All that you could see is what it is just cause some Pope in 1494 decided, “Heyyy, Portogallo, Spagna … vieni qui, vieni qui! Ya non può mantenere combatte il nuovo mondo … è un male per affari, capiche? L’unica cosa giusta è quella di dividere tale emisfero tra voi due … i popoli indiginous? non ti preoccupare ’bout nulla, quando la Madre Chiesa ha finito con loro … non voglio sapere! )So Utah is mine. But thats not important now.Notice the upper right column of the Wakefield Doctrine ‘homepage’? We are in the process of re-doing the  ‘About’  feature/section. The unavoidable truth of the matter is that a lot of people visit  this site and a lot of people leave as soon as they see the first page! They leave, even though it clearly says that the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ) is both very, very helpful in interpersonal relationships and is totally fun for everyone!  ( “…what? it doesn’t?!?!?  you mean we don’tmake it totally, un-avoidably, trans-abundantly clear that the Doctrine is both useful and fun!!?…wtf!! )
Sorry, I apologise for an apparent mis-communication between the creative department and the editorial department at the blog. If there was one thing that was to jump out at new Readers, the very second they could read the Title of this blog, it was to have been:  this thing of ours is unique and it is useful and it is fun!
Appears that this has not quite been the case. That will be rectified. We’re asking any Readers out there for any suggestions for how we get this message to the new Readers, any input will be appreciated. Heck, you could even call in your suggestions tonight! This being Saturday, tonight is the Saturday Night Drive ( 218-339-0422 then when prompted 512103# ).  ( “…that is up there, isn’t it? On the front page? “ )Here is a quick list of the ways that the Wakefield Doctrine can benefit you:
  • you will understand why it takes your husband until the end of Summer to decide on which lawn mower to buy
  • you will have fun with your extremely out-going bff by demonstrating to your (other) friends how easy it is to distract them
  • the quiet person in your office? the one with the clothing from the late 80’s? the Doctrine will show you how to get them to do all your work!
  • you know how much fun you think it is to laugh at people in distress? the Doctrine will tell you why your thinking that is funny is proof that you have the ‘depth of personality’ of a 5 year old
  • hats, you are a reputedly hetero-sexual male, yet hats make you want to wear them…the Doctrine will introduce you to re-enacting! (Civil War, Revolutionary War, Peloponnesian War, doesn’t matter!)

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