self-improvement | the Wakefield Doctrine - Part 14

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 23, 2023 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. Each week we compile a list of the people, places and things that have, in time recently passed or lodged in the distant memory like a shard of mirror stuck in the plaster in an old building. We list them in a list and link it to the TToT. You’re invited to read and enjoy or write, link and (also) enjoy.

For this week:

1) Una (Saturday Day morning tv)

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Una garden (Phase I Winter’s Rest Soon to be Disturbed)

5) the Zombie Christmas Project Phase Phive  (Hey! Readers Clap your hands. Maybe thats all the zombie tree needs to to flourish)

6) Cottage project: Patio and walkway. Gathering bids. Hopefully this Summer

7) Six Sentence Story bloghop

8) something, something

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10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules) “…getting to, like, Grat #6 means if you don’t sabotage yourself, you’re home free for the week… almost. To dodge the hubris arrow, best to wait until this, Number 10 before citing it as a Grat.  (PS… go back and do something with that blank at Number 9!)

 

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Monday~ the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 10, 2023 By

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

If you are of a certain age, you will recognize this person… a high jumper named Dick Fosbury who changed his sport in as fundamental a manner as possible. (Look him up) RIP 2023 (yeah, so a clark)

 

(Thought I already had a Reprint post, the original intro-section, but discovered it’d already had a music vid attached. But, it, (the vid, not the words), just didn’t connect to anything in the world, this morning‘s world, at any rate.)

Hey! There’s a possibility!

And… and! it ties in (sorta) to a comment Nick made, the end of last week, about how the concept of ‘expectations’ might be an interesting Doctrine post.

Speaking of connecting to the world, we trust everyone reading knows that Wakefield Doctrine is about nothing if it’s not about the relationship one has with the world around (them) and the people who make it up. Correct?

(clarks: yeah, of course; scotts: we got ya; rogers: well, maybe you should go ahead and tell us)

We would say that the parenthetical above has everything a person would need to re-create the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, but that would not be true.

The thing of it is, the Doctrine? All these words and posts, music vids and bullet lists, the three personality types and descriptions?

They’re for clarks and scotts (with a significant secondary clarklike aspect and rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspect) only.

 

hey! wait. Today’s post photo has totally derailed the direction of this train (lol… not quite a rogerian expression but still fun)

With the Everything Rule* in mind (hell, lets put it on a banner along the top of the blackboard) consider:

Creativity:

    • clarks: genuine creativity and therefore rarely a direct benefit, i.e. a place in the first generation history books; clarks being the Outsider are in a position to take from nothing and bring back (or leave on a scott or roger‘s doorstep) expressions or things, songs or viewpoints that are not nor ever have been of the world.
    • scotts: with endless energy one might think the world would not be able to keep up and a path out of the known world would be available (to gather something new and novel) but no, a scott will use their energy, (and, therefore, power), to take pretty much anything and, (with as many exclamation marks as necessary), raise an old, sweat-stained-liner, slight tear in the crown, fedora and say ‘Hey! I have a new hat. Aint that cool/funny/amazing?’
    • rogers: being of the Herd, they are natural eingineers/accountants/law makers. the creativity of a roger is found in their talent in combining the parts, (already in existence), in a novel fashion.

Out(ish) of time.

Expectations: a very provocative iquiry, fer sure. Afterall, this thing of ours is about relationships. And can there be a more intimate relationship than that between ourselfs in the present and ourselves in the future?

Get everyone you know to write a comment to the effect: ‘Hey! We want to read a post on expectations! Nick’s idea/topic is what you should write about next. Come on! We promise to come back.’

* everyone does everything at one time or another

 

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘thx, Mimi’

April 5, 2023 By

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oh, man!

(this is either: ‘oh man this is the perfect post for the today’s topic?’ or it’s ‘oh man! this is the most on-point post for the topic today!’)

Today’s topic is (as often the case) suggested by/inferred from/insinuated/ and/or ‘jeez, it’s all there, save some typing for the Six Sentence Story tonight, cher’ from a comment by Mimi

(Ok, I’ll concede that point. But only because of my Reply to her Comment. (It would have been killer-insightful and almost, ‘Eureka!* I’ believe she’s got it!’)

Tuesday Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “of occupations, worldviews and the Everything Rule’

April 12, 2017

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Firefighters are rogers and cops are scotts

While there clearly are some occupations that congeal* with one personality type more than the others, there is nothing in the Wakefield Doctrine that says that clarks, scotts and rogers cannot excel at any and all, occupations, avocations, careers and…hobbies.

The example at the top of this post serves as the best illustration of how some occupations demand personal qualities found in one over the other predominant worldviews. This comparison provides a way to come to a greater understanding and appreciation of the nature of the reality that ‘the other two’** personality types confront each and every morning.

(A word about predominant worldview and personal reality. When the Doctrine refers to: personal reality and worldviews, we mean reality. Just because it’s personal, as in the woman next to you on the bus may not perceive how uncomfortable you are with her gum chewing or the fact that some people just creep you out, before they say or do anything, doesn’t mean it’s not real. It doesn’t mean that it’s in a lesser category of real, reality is real. To the person experiencing it. What makes me a clark (my predominant worldview) is not my inclinations and sub-conscious urges or predilections or tendencies. What make me a clark (or, better, what makes me recognizable as a clark) are the behaviors, learned responses, reactions and interpersonal strategies that I’ve acquired through a lifetime of living in the reality of the Outsider. These traits and reactions and style of interacting are the best I could come up with to deal with the world that I am in. I am not mistaken for a roger, if for no other reason than the fact that the way I relate myself to the world around my is totally inappropriate to living in the world of the Herd Member.)

dig?

About those cops and firefighters…  so, one job involves driving cars real fast and if that’s not noisy enough there’s a siren on the roof and the highest expression of the profession is to chase down and capture people…. and tie them up and such.  remind you of anyone?

the other job relies on routine and tradition, brotherhood and cooperation and preserving houses and buildings, and forests, if there are no houses on fire, to preserve what is… save people if necessary, the first thing is to put the fire out and not let it spread and destroy other buildings.

…. ok, personality type identification (PTI) aide:  picture the firefighter,  everyone is in the fire station, maintaining the equipment, polishing the brass and chrome until it shines, coiling hoses now,  picture Joe Pesci and Jack Nicholson at the fire station.  any problem with that?  lol

The Everything Rule?  ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another‘  which is to say clarks can be effective cops, scotts can be kindergarten teachers (in fact, a friend of the Doctrine happens to be just that), so there is no, ‘hey that’s a scottian job, you can’t do that!‘ The intent of the Everything Rule is to remind us that it is how a thing manifests in an individuals reality that counts.

 

*  an approximation of what is called a rogerian expression. the maladaptive, semi-aggressive use of language; the result is a shocking and hilarious mis-use/pronunciation/application of a word

** all of us live our lives in one of the three worldviews (Outsider/Predator/Herd Member), what we refer to as our ‘personality type’ is nothing more than a remarkably comprehensive group of social adaptations and interpersonal strategies, as appropriate to the character of the reality we grow up in… we have one predominant worldview, we never lose the capacity to experience the world as do ‘the other two’ personality types. Hence the value in appreciating the other guys reality…provided you’re a clark, of course.

 

* subtle, but gratuitous link-drop to Nick… one reason: a) he’s got a serial running on his site that’s kinda addictioning** but it’s only on his site and not at the Six and 2) he’s one of the few Proprietors*** that I have facebook linkage and if’n you’re gonna try and game the internet, then why not treat yourself to some muy cool story while your’re there****

** not a ‘real’ word

*** a bunch of ‘people’ what hang out at a virtual-but-fun-place in the blogosphere

**** tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya

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

April 3, 2023 By

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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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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 2, 2023 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

The Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) is a long-running, widely-read, prolific-in-writer-participation grat ‘hop. Started in 1948 by a Nova Scottian expatriate, the TToT has been translated in numerous machine languages and not-a-few human dialects.

You should try it. Writing a post and submitting for inclusion. It’s fun and benficial.

1) Una

(quiet Sunday morning)

 

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) technology (well, cause you’re reading this, right?)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) Week Too: Zombie Christmas Project

7) work/business that permits maximum flexibility aka control of where I spend my time doing whatever it is I ascertain produces the maximum return

8) something, something

9) (group link here)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 From the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules, Chapter 8 sec. 29-37: “[w]hile in the process of writing a grat list, the realization that more than half of the items are complete {Wakefield Doctrine; Messy Mimi et.al.} is, in and of itself sufficiently gratitudinous in character to warrant inclusion in said (L)ist. BoSR/SBoR 1983 ibid op. cit.

 

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