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Monday-Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Monday morning.

This Day in Doctrine posts!

…ok. I’m back… a lot of digging through old files. It took almost three years of Doctrine posts to find one written on May 3rd! But…but! what a find!

Given how, were we to continue to search for ‘This Day in Doctrine posts’ we’d totally have a bunch of them. Well, not precisely. Seeing how there remains only eight more May 3rds possible… but that’s not important now.*

What is important is that our find, our reprint today is the post that provided a new level of understanding of one of ‘the other two’ predominant worldviews.

Specifically, the rogerian worldview.

Note to New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is, among other things, a map of a nearly unreachable world(s). We, all of us, grow up and develop in one of three realities: that of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers). The Doctrine describes each so that we might infer how one relates themselfs to the world around them.

(And when you learn these descriptions sufficiently, life becomes much simpler…. you go to a friend’s garage workshop and you see the shadow-relief outlines of tools on a pegboard over the workbench… like victims of the Hiroshima atrocity and you suddenly realize that you friend is a roger or, standing in line at the supermarket, one person is heard above the fairly subdued background conversation and you watch as they cut ahead of the line. This is not. however, what has you smiling at the thought of ‘that weird personality theory blog’ that your odd friend insisted you read the night before. What has you smiling is the person cutting in line, he’s telling jokes, people are laughing, hell, they’re stepping out of line in the hopes that he’d stop in their section of the line. What a scott!)

Where were we…. maps! Right! The descriptions of the three worldviews are like a map. You will recognize the streets when you walk down them. You will not see inside the houses and buildings…unless, someone from the area invites you in and that is what happened to this post written on May 3rd 2012. The result of this post (the discovery is detailed in subsequent posts.**

The take-away. What this post lead to was the discovery of the principle of ‘referential authority’. It is a major dynamic in the worldview of the Herd Members. What it wasn’t was ‘visible’ from the basic descriptions of the predominant worldview of rogers.

We discovered this ‘artifact’ as most discoveries of un-seeable objects are made: by inference. When we went to the rogers in our readership at the time and asked, ‘Well what did you think of the three possible responses to the scenaria?’ And they, the rogers, were, to a woman, “My god!! They can’t do that!! It’s an insult to the owner. That job applicant should be arrested!!”

Needless to say, the ferocity of the objection by rogers for the clarklike choice in the first scenario was a total “Hey!! Look here…closer!! There’s something going on here that is specific to the rogerian worldview.

Cool, non?

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

Today we present the second in our series of Posts that look at the process of interviewing for a job, through the lens of the Wakefield Doctrine. In each of these Posts, we will set up a job interview scenario, each in a different business sector and look at it from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine. The underlying question throughout will be, “what insight does the Wakefield Doctrine provide that will allow us to improve the chances of success in being hired in each of these situations?”

In our First Post, “Won’t you have a seat, Mr Andrews will see you in a moment“, we examined the strategies available to a person seeking a position in what is often referred to as ‘the corporate world’. In that first Post, we focused on the ‘pre-Interview’ phase of the employment process. With today’s Post we will stay with this convention, as it seems that, if the first episode is any indication, most Readers find the Applicant’s efforts to deal with the appointment process entertaining and instructive. Subsequent Posts in this Series, will include interviewing for positions in the Manufacturing Sector, Service Industries and Small Businesses.

Small Business Environment:

….a small restaurant, in a small coastal town which is also home to the State University. With only 10 tables and an open kitchen layout the Owner, (who is also the cook), is able to greet and interact with all the patrons. It is quite clear that he enjoys what he does, is reasonably skilled and, as a result, the business has grown rapidly. The increase in business has been surprisingly rapid and the Owner is finding that the part-time help from family and relatives is insufficient, and so the Help Wanted: Waitress ad in the local newspaper.

…The Interviewee:

The wife of a faculty member at the University, after a Sabbatical from Field Work, you have been unable to find employment in your area of expertise, Paleo-sociology (and) Urdic Languages. Rather than spend another summer in the overly large home that you and your husband share with two cats, you decide that being a Waitress wouldn’t be the worst thing you could do, at least until the market for Sociologists (fluent in farsi) improves. So you call the number in the newspaper and get an appointment to meet the Owner. Wearing your best Interview suit (a subdued brown pinstripe) and carrying your trusted iPad, you set off to the restaurant, confident that you will be able to recall your undergraduate days of work-study working in the school cafeteria.
(…. oh! do we need to mention that you are so a roger?)

(First Interaction)

The Restaurant is quite busy for 10:30 on a weekday morning. All but 2 tables are occupied, the Owner can be seen at the grill cooking, stopping to look up and wave as you enter the restaurant. He waves a spatula in the direction of the empty table near the door and goes back to cooking. There is a woman standing at the cash register, ringing out a customer. She looks up, frowns then smiles and says, “You must be Emily! To be honest with you, I’m really kind of busy right now, but I left an application on that table over there, if you want to get started I’ll try to get over to you in a minute. We’re really kinda swamped right now”.
Looking over to the table, you see a single sheet of paper marked Application for Employment

Do you:

Sit at the table (not before taking out a tissue and wiping off the table top) and begin to read the Application for Employment

Decide that the Owner should have paused at least for a moment, and come over to properly introduce himself and even though the woman at the cash register seems nice, they are both being rude, so you turn around and walk out of the restaurant

Pick up the dishes from a recently empty table and take them to what appears to be the kitchen…

The Question: if you are a roger what is likely to be your first reaction, which is the most effective strategy for getting this job. Which of the three personality types ( clark or scott or roger) is the woman ringing out the Customers? Please submit your answer (along with the reason for your picking the personality type) in the Comments section at the bottom of this Post

(Second Interaction)

…you have been sitting at the table 15 minutes (30 minutes later than the scheduled interview). The ‘breakfast rush’ has finally quieted down and the woman at the cash register brings you coffee, asks (again!) if you would like something to eat and tells you that the Owner will be over in a minute.

Do you:

ask the woman questions about the restaurant, how long has it been in business, what background the Owner has in the restaurant business

Look annoyed and ask her if it is always this busy

smile, hand her the Application for Employment that you have completed (and somehow stapled your curriculum vita to the slightly grease-spotted form) and say, “Thank you so much! I am sure that I will enjoy working here!”

The Question: if you are a roger, which of the above is likely to be your initial reaction and which, (of the three actions above), should be your reaction, in order to increase your chances of being successful in this Interview?

Well that should be enough to get us started! As with the first Interview, consider not only which of the three personality types the people in our scenario are, but tell us why you think they are (clarks or scotts or rogers )… and while it is helpful to know the correct way to get this particular type of job, add what you can about what the Wakefield Doctrine gives our Interviewee, in terms of tools or aids that will allow her to get whatever the hell it is that she wants…. (yes, Molly and Claire that is a totally leading question!)

* the whole ‘reprint thing’ is, of course, about jump-starting the wordage lobe in our brain. Today? Job done.

** what can we say, they’re all there… guess you’re gonna have to rummage through all 2300 posts

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TT-T -the Wkfld Dctrn- “whr wld w b wtht cnsnts? Fnny y shld sk.”

April 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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2) Phylls

3) th Wkfld Dctrn

4) srl strs: ‘th Whtchpl ntrld‘ nd ‘th Cs f th Mssng Fg Lf‘

5) th Sx Sntnc Stry blghp

6) th 20 Mnt Rl Stt Brfng (wht Phylls gnd, ths n ttlly lst!)

7) hy, t lst w ddnt ls r cnsnts!

8) smthng, smthng

9) (well, ok, if it really helps: A, E, I, O and U…. find the right space and your world will be made whole… but how grateful can a body be, what gets vowels restored before the end of the list, am I right?”)

10) Srct Rl 1.3 “…[w]hn dng n ntr TTT lst wth sngl hk…. bttr kp t shrt. p ct. bd”

msc vds

* A

* E

* I

* O

* U

* (for those so incline)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- Special! Way-vertical Post Edition

February 6, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created by Lizzi, sometime in 1987, it’s been on a run that Cats, South Pacific and Doctor Dolittle might rightly envy.

Currently hosted by Dyanne. She was one of the original co-hostinae, back in 2013. When she’s not herding Lilliputians at the local feed ‘n grain, she can be found, all Lady of the Lakes, at the family retreat in the northern provinces.

Dyanne does not toil alone.

There are co-hostinae. They, each of them, hail from a different corner of Oceania:

Mimi from the southern-most reaches of the Les Acadien region.
Patricia from the Primodia Territories, and
Lisa from the more remote edges of Pocosinia

Each are responsible for keeping the forward movement, the weekly-ness. if you will, of this exercise engaged, so that any who would find a grat hop refreshing, the TToT is here. As Lizzi surely intended, (little direct evidence remained after her disappearance in the wilds of Northumberland), in early 2007.

As for us, here at the Wakefield Doctrine, we maintain that, in a world of dissonance and conflict, ten (10) things are usually available, (by any of the eight senses), to remind us that we walk upright on two legs not only to reach the cereal, in the cabinet to the left of the stove, but to keep the traditional center of the mind closest to a reliable escape route.

Our Ten:

1) Una ——————————————–↓

2) Phyllis—————–↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial stories: ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

5) our ongoing real estate term paper, ‘the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing‘ every Wednesday and…. ( @CoastalNew )

6) the feature we have on our Instagram… ‘Where in South County are we?’. Twice a week, we post photos of local landmarks (the semi-famous ones). It’s fun, sorta like a nine-piece jigsaw puzzles or a restaurant placemat… This being the internet… if you’d like to join in from your own region (there most be some way to do that)… friend…or join or link or whatever single-syllable set of directions from our millennial ward attendants deem sufficient…. here, the Coastal New England Real Estate Team #coastalnere join the fun.

7) the Six Sentence Story an exercise in imaginative brevity. (flash fiction)

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (If you’d like to take this grat hop for a test drive, send us an Item of Thankful and we’ll post it right here. See how it feels, ya know?

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of secret viewers, ‘bots and the fear of hope”

February 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Hope is a four-letter word.

Rejuvenate is a ten-letter word.

One is emblematic of the personal reality of the Outsider, the other, an appropriate term for the ambitions of the Wakefield Doctrine.

…neither, however, are enticing enough to build a post around. They’re more like the scraps of cardboard that seem to appear out of nowhere, a second before you give up hope of getting your car out of the snow-rut. After pressing the accelerator way past the point of effectiveness, (though the exercise is not without a certain feeling of power, as you listen to the wheel spinning in it’s half-circle of rock-hard ice, the sound is a potent combination of engine power and restraint, with just enough of a overtone of burning rubber, you know, to keep it real.)

So, the question we pose, still determined to make use of the two words-of-the-day, where does the emotion of hope* go, when the car does not? What transformation occurs to the marshaling of emotion and thought? We recognize that, in part, the energy, (or emotion), is converted into creativity. Cardboard? To move a vehicle weighing more than any other object in your house? Really?

Really.

But we’re concerned with the energy within, this apparently being take-a-clark-to-work day, at least in terms of writing the day’s post.

Anger…. there’s a common-enough example of the transformation of emotion that no longer has a context in the external world.

Hey, here’s an idea! What would the situation look like, if the driver was a clark, a scott or a roger?

Well, lets assume the driveway is long enough not to permit a view of how deep the snow is, at the far end, where the street is. For the New Reader:

clark(the Outsider) is the person who grows up in the world of men and women wearing a name card that, somehow, got smudged under the clear-plastic folder (with it’s why-is-this-a-good-design? half-a-safety pin on the back).
scott(the Predator) the man or woman who holds to the sub-sub-conscious belief that the world is a three-round sudden death playoff, always pulls the driver from the bag approaching the tee; their caddy needs to sprint to get to the green first.
roger(the Herd Member) has never met a person they don’t believe they know, (or know someone who does know), and interacts with others with the confidence of a four-year-old after mastering the placement of the first three objects heralding a life of education, the peg, the cylinder and cubical piece of wood.

So ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.

In no particular order:

the scott makes it out to the road and shouts to the neighbor that, as soon as the spring arrives, he’ll help put the fence, (did we mention the fact that our test driveway is between the fences that mark the two abutting properties?) Take a closer look at the photo… it does. Style point to our scottian driver for missing the school children, inadvisably clustered together, two doors down.
the clark proves our point about the (potential) power of emotional transformation, i.e. hope into creativity… we’re left to wonder where they got the cardboard or how much it will cost to replace the rear tires
the roger…. well! how do they do it?!! The driver got out of the car, (which had perfectly-right-angled openings in the snow that covered both the windshield and the rear window, the bottom of the windshield looked like the side of a street in Anchorage on a particularly snowy winter, the wipers themself were at ‘9 o’clock’ when turned off, not able to push the ice and snow further off the glass), looked around, muttered something about how the neighbors have not yet even shoveled their sidewalks and a crowd materializes. With little discussion, other than to agree the. weather service got it wrong again, the car was pushed out of the rut and up on to the road. Like an igloo with square windows and four wheels, the roger drove off without a second look.

* and surely it is an emotion, being as practical and rational and a jello sledgehammer

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Today only, yesterday’s grammar-free post continued!*”

January 12, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Extra credit for anyone objecting to the affirmation (in the subtitle of today’s post) that ‘today only’ does not conflict with the assertion that it is, in fact, a continuation of another post. What credit is being acquired? Will only say, if we ever do hats or tee shirts, you on the guest list.

Characteristics of the three personality types (with valuable insight into their respective realities) in no particular order:

clarks are the product of (an) upbringing in the reality of the Outsider and, thus, their scars are considered beauty marks as often as they are deformation
writing a post at 4:30 in the morning, following a night of dreams focused on attempting to escape a world of insane irrationality, at a walking pace, probably has not exerted any lasting effect
(lol)
scotts don’t get scared, they get excited
when rogers get scared they draw together within the local Herd, much like the non-intuitive strategies of World War II bombing raids that entailed flying in formation over enemy territory (sorry, still don’t buy it)
but then, we’re not a roger
the primary goal of, (the application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine), is to become fluent in the language of ‘the other two’ worldviews.
the simplest technique in determining the predominant worldview of another is to immediately toss the ‘no-fricken-way’ worldview and then take note of preferred pronouns
a scott alone in a room, isn’t
a roger alone in a room closes their eyes and feels the company of the Herd
a clark alone in a room, surprisingly, gets bored quite quickly
the social demands of responding to, contending with, and enduring the pandemic: angers scotts, annoys rogers and delights clarks because, ‘essential tale-tales are obscured, Herd-size is restricted and one’s face is effectively obscured, respectively
having even a small degree of fluency in ‘the other two’ worldviews provides us with the early warning to: stay alert when encountering a scott, remember who you’re dealing with while interacting with a roger and take the opportunity to relax, when in the company of a clark
the Everything Rule reminds us there is no exclusive claim, by any of the three personality types, on any occupation, avocation, hobby, interest, infatuation, part-time job, profession or ‘the-club-that-everyone-else-was-invited-to-join’
that said, sometimes it helps to go with ‘the natural’, scottian cop, rogerian fire fighter, clarklike elementary school teacher… (to name a few)
the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for self-improvement and it is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people that make it up
the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them