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

While we don’t not subscribe to the notion that the beginning of a new year is the best place (or time) to devise a list of resolutions, under-the-supposed assumptions that the change in year allows a suspension of the (life-long) momentum of any number (and character) of habits (both good and bad) or indulgences (growing from childhood’s garden or adult random-roadside field) that magically produces a condition of blank-slate innocence and open-mindedness.

(If we did, then maybe we’d note that (parentheticals) are so first year blog writer and the Doctrine itself provides us with the simplest of tools to enhance and improve our stay on this plane).

… if we were inclined to indulge in a List of New(ish) Year Resolutions, it would have to include the usefulness of the Wakefield Doctrine in self-improving oneself. So, in a sense, you could be forgiven for thinking of this here Doctrine here, as an eternally-renewing resolution. But then again, consider what we most often cite as the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine:

...to allow us to better understand the world as the other person is experiencing it.

The keyword: translation.

The theme: accepting the ‘the relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up’ of ‘the other two’*

damn! still don’t got a RePrint and it’s quarter-of-real-world o’clock.

Here try this:

CRYSTAL

He sat down, a tripod of hands and butt, rejected his surroundings and turned an almost-deaf ear to the voice in his head.

‘Don’t worry,’ the voice said, every straight-A student at the bustop, to the boy with an armload of unread textbooks, “This is either a dream or that woman you called a post-menopausal-charlatan-who-didn’t-know-her-astral-body-from-a-hole-in-the-ground, cast a spell on you.”

Ignoring the voice, he looked around and regretted it immediately; all he saw was an inward-curving sky, as featureless as a newborn’s conscience. It hurt to look look around at something that insisted it was right there, just a second ago, yet he was more afraid to close his eyes.

There was second voice, ‘Hope is a crystal ball, you can believe in it, just don’t count on seeing where it starts or where it ends.”

Something changed, the world around him flattened into an array of solid walls forming a candle-lit room and he was now facing a woman across a round pool of green felt, “That’ll be five dollars,” she smiled, “And you’re welcome.”

Due us a solid and tell someone in your life to come and spend some time at this blog.

Tell ’em there’s this strange place where what they talk about is, like, on the edge of interesting most of the time and ‘hear-your-name’ at a social function compelling a certain part of the time. Serially.

* we are, all of us, possessed of one of the three predominant worldview (aka personality types). One designates our personal reality, the other two comprise a potential to relate to the world differently. You remember: ‘we all develop and live in one of the three personal realities but have the potential for the other two’

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

When last we met in Tuesday-as-memoir mode, we alluded to the power of the rogerian worldview in matters relating to popularity. Specifically writing and books and such.

Simply put, rogerian writers are more successful than clarklike or scottian authors.

(Wait for it…)

Success being defined as attracting the maximum number of Readers, viewers, attendees and followers. Quantity, not (necessarily) quality.

This is surely a perfect time to bring out a fundamental element of the Wakefield Doctrine. Frankly, if you’re a new Reader, will need this concept¹* to best understand our little personality theory.

First things first. As to the core concept that eliminates much confusion:

The Everything Rule: ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another’.

In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, this rule allows the entirely un-necessary, nay, the self-destructive balkanization of a novel and productive perspective on human nature. The Everything Rule reminds us that there is nothing in one of the three predominant worldviews that is exclusive relative to the other two.

Example: People, new to the Wakefield Doctrine, often will ask, “No matter how many times I ask him not to, my husband leaves the toilet seat up. Is that a scottian thing?”

No. It is not. Leaving the toilet seat up is not exclusive to those who relate to the world as does the Predator (scotts). But close!** How this peculiar ‘contrariness’ manifests in clarks and rogers is different, but definitely present. The key concept: how a behavior, predilection, tropism..whatever manifests in (an) individual is the product of their relationship to the world around them and the people who make it up.

Much more on the Everything Rule in future Tuesdays.

Lets end with one core concept and one old saying.

*The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral.*

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

Holy smoke!²

1. ok, here is where the fun of this series surely will be found. What we say and what we do and etc. et.al. is the product of our predominant worldview. easy concept, yes? so, in this little aside we see a primary characteristic of the clarklike predominant worldview and …and! we gain an insight into one who relates themselves to the world around them as does the Outsider. How cool is that?

* so as not to muddy the waters any more than necessary, this asterix to the footnote points out one of the better/worse qualities of clarks, vis á vis our interaction with others. Will leave a full explication for another Tuesday. (Hint: we are so terribly concerned with the feelings of others.)

** lol  We’ll let the more seasoned Readers explain to our newer Readers how that might make one laugh (Hint: part of the fun of the Doctrine is that it not only allows, it encourages, us to use our imagination. In this case, visual imagination. That’s all we’ll say.)

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

N0t even gonna review this RePrint. (Full Disclosure: We did scan it. When we do this it is to determine if there is mention of clarks, scotts and rogers in any kind of bullet-point, blockquote or otherwise set apart from the normal, single column of text format.

This one seems to fit these exacting criteria. Let’s see what we gots here this freezing cold Monday. Maybe even will comment afterwards. (There is, btw, something slightly disturbing about that last sentence. Let’s see if the malaise continues after we read it.

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October 2, 2011

Welco

Welcome to ( ah! much better! ) the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )

As the title purely implies, today is an easy day…easy font, easy title and easy on the complex, OMG! I had no idea how totally insightful you people are…kinda way. No grammar concerns, no worries about ‘story arc’ just going to have a little conversation.  Well, we know it is not going to be a ‘conversation’, because that would require a give and take, an exchange of ideas, a frickin effort to get out of your Chair-of-Total-Self-Idulgence and and actually do something. ( And we know you are too fuckin lazy to bother doing that! Life in the Virtual Zone!! ain’t it grand?)

Lets play with fonts, seeing how we’re all ‘comic sans-ly this morning’. Like the following short statement:

This is type on wing dings font  what the hell!

now, would someone out there please tell me why this ‘font’ would be permanently installed in my software?  Seriously, other than some pudgy-fingered, greasy-hair, bad-complected roger (male or female) using this font to send secret messages to other rogers, why do we have it? No answer, is there?   (And we now arrive at the Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day):

We all know that this Doctrine is based on the premise that there are three characteristic ways/manners/styles that all people perceive the world, i.e.  ‘as an Outsider’ (looking on) if you are a clark,  ‘as a predator’ (watching out) if you are a scott  (or)  ‘as a member of the group (looking around) if you are a roger.
With me so far?  good! Then you know that at an early age, we all become predominantly one of these three, (and this is where the magic happens):

• If you are a clark: you are different, you know that everyone and everything around seems normal and you know you are not crazy (well, not crazy crazy) but everything is out there  and you are here watching and hoping that you can understand what it is that everyone else seems to know (and then) you will fit in and you won’t be out here
• If you are a scott: you just got to do something, you see people act and move and you feel….you move  you suspect that you are different but everytime someone does something you re-act and you are …not glad…not happy…it’s just right. Sometimes you feel like you maybe, shouldn’t do so much so fast, you feel bad when others seem to not enjoy it…but you know thats the way the world is
• If you are a roger: you are busy, all the time, things need to get done but they must be understood and appreciated and …and enhanced  You feel the responsibility, the sense of duty but it is not oppressive, sometimes you know that there are people around you who are in the way, but for the most part, everyone has a place and life will unfold as it should

What we are talking about here is not the dominant aspect, the fact that we are mostly clarks, scotts and rogers  (most of the time), what we will look at is the role of the two ‘non-dominant’ aspects. Remember! We never lose the capacity/capability/drive/instinct to experience the world as any of the three types, so what happens to the other two that we are not (mostly)?

That question formed the core of the constructive part of last night’s Saturday Night Drive.
You know, the live call-in blog that you couldn’t drag yourself away from the totally engaging TV show that demanded your attention, or those loser friends on ‘the Facebook’ that you so hadn’t talked to in so long, in order to call us and thereby slightly increasing the chance of (your) living a better life?  Anyway AKH, DS#1and DownSpring glenn were in the car (in one form or another) and the result of the discussion was this:  anyone understanding/getting/reading and/or following the Wakefield Doctrine blog has their clarklikeaspect in 2nd position. No matter what.  Why this is true came about later in the conversation. And since one of the key bits of wisdom that the Doctrine has given us maintains that for most people ‘if it is free, it is worthless’. So that we might demonstrate the benefits of the Doctrine in action, ” you want to know more about the role of the sub-dominant aspects of personality?”

That will be $23.57…bitches

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