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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 16, 2021 By

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

Hey, today presents an interesting opportunity for a Wakefield Doctrine workshop/experiment.

(New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on reality, the world and the people who make it up*. It posits that we, all of us, have the potential, at birth, to grow up and develop in what amounts to three distinct realities. These realities, referred to as ‘predominant worldviews’ are:

  1. the reality of the Outsider(clarks) this individual, once they come to the realization they are separate and apart from most people around them, learn to interact with the minimum of accidental or inadvertent exposure; scrutiny is to be avoided at all costs; genuinely creative, erratically accomplished, this personality is endlessly curious, oddly fun and engaged in a life-long search for the information that would allow them to join the ranks of the ‘real’ people of the world.
  2. the world of the Predator(scotts) a true child of Nature, this predominant worldview is all about living and surviving in a world full of potential pleasure, rife with danger and un-detected threat, and never stopping, lest they are over-come by the forward momentum of life; impulsive, mercurial and open in both interactions with others and their desire to live the fullest of lives, they are at home only in the objective, next-minute-next, here and now
  3. the life of the Herd Member(rogers) everyone who isn’t a clark or a scott; while a clark(Outsider) lives in the shadows of the social fringe, bringing novelty and newness into the world and the scott keeps everyone paying attention to the fact that life is limited, (and way too short). Our Herd Member builds a stable, if not rigid, world that allows continuity to exist for all three; life, to the Herd Member, from the moment they encounter anyone else, is one of belonging and relationship, the coin of their realm is nothing less than emotion and confidence in the fact that everything is quantifiable and there is a Right Way to live.

Still with us? Great! We’re all born with the potential to live life in one, (and only), one of these realities, but, and this is key, we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. In fact, some of us have what we refer to as a ‘significant secondary aspect’. This is where qualities not common to one’s predominant worldview, (aka personality type), is in evidence. Most often in times of duress, a person, say a scott might suddenly, in an emergency, become thoughtful and creative (instead of impulsive and ….impulsive) and become, for the situation, more able to deal with the circumstance.

Which brings us to the topic of today’s post: using the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to self-improve oneself.

Wait! One more insight.

The Wakefield Doctrine also has what’s called. ‘the Everything Rule’, which, simply stated is, Everyone does everything, at one time or another. What it means is: while one predominant worldview might make an individual more likely to suceed at a given task/job/occupation/avocation/life-style, none of these, (tasks/jobs/occupations/avocations/life-styles) are the exclusive domain of any of the three. Sure, a scott has the desire to hunt and stalk and therefore might be well-suited to being, say, a surgeon or a singer. A roger, living in the quantifiable universe of the Herd Member may, having no difficulty learning the hard sciences, make an excellent engineer, might also be an outstanding musician or chef. clarks, well, first you gotta spot ’em.

The take-away here is: we all have within, all and every quality that self-improvers and life-coaches dream of. It’s just a matter of applying the principles.

To that end, this evening we** will be trying doing this week’s 20 Minute Briefing Real Estate Briefing as a solo act. Not so much to prove it can be done, rather the goal is to see how deliberately one might access their secondary and tertiary aspects in real time. (In case anyone was wondering about the predominant worldview of the test subject…lol).

The thing of it is, this blog represents a real-world/real-time example of the manifestation of a secondary aspect. The ‘voice’ our posts have developed over the years is neither that of the person who started writing in 2009 nor is it, for that matter, the person typing today. But seeing how much we enjoy some posts (‘specially back in the 20012 to 2014 years), the goal of this experiment is to see if’n I can talk the way I (sometimes) write.

This evening at 5:30 on the Facebook or youtune

Be there or be accused of reminding others in your social circle that you make them think of a figure defined by four lines at 90 degrees to each other!

So lets see how this link works!

* still one of my favorite jokey sayings…. like, as if, the world isn’t made up by the people who populate it lol

** still favor the editorial ‘we’ and, if you’re an advanced student of the Doctrine, you will surely divine the writer’s worldview on the basis of preferred pronouns.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘If I don’t remember writing it, it’s new content, right?’

June 1, 2021 By

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I’m currently on a self-improvement jag. Gonna exercise, final edit my serial, ‘the Case of the Missing Starr’ and do something about finding and agent* and so, I figured, reprint!

(Really weird experience getting this post. Remind me to tell you sometime. Kinda has to do with time being like those moving walkways in airports, only traveling in all sorts of directions and velocities.)

Momentarily Monday the Wakefield Doctrine …(self-limitations and insights)

August 18, 2014 By  (Edit)

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DownSpring Lizzi has this thing she does, from time to time, where she writes provocative and engaging story that seems to be about herself, only to inform the Reader, at the very end, that ‘this is fiction’.

Today’s Post is sort of like that…except in reverse (or maybe, converse). The story that follows is real enough, however the ‘point’, or ‘lesson’ or even ‘moral’ of the story may not be immediately apparent.  And,

Yesterday I had a property that had a heating air-conditioning system emergency. An air-handler in the attic malfunctioned and water (condensate from the ac) was leaking through the ceiling into the bedroom below. I tried, without success, to get the plumbing and heating company to answer my calls to make a weekend service call, unfortunately they were nowhere to be found.  Staring at the water dripping off the hardwired smoke detector in the bedroom ceiling I realized that I had to do something. I decided to turn off the power in the house, as  house was on a well,  at least I could prevent any additional water from adding to the problem. The air-handler sat in a metal pan, in order to contain any condensate created when the system was in cooling mode. The pan was overflowing, the source of the water dripping through the bedroom ceiling. My plan was simply to empty the pan. Access to the attic was by a pull-down staircase. I took a plastic drinking cup and a 5 gallon bucket, climbed the stairs, flashlight in hand, and starting bailing out the water. There was a lot of water. At least 5 trips down the stairs, with a full bucket. Now, the thing about pulldown staircases is that they have normal shaped steps from the bottom to about 3/4s of the way up, where they, (the steps), become more like ledges. You can put your full weight on them, you just can’t stand on them the way you normally do with stairs.

The operation took about 45 minutes. It was successful, provided the definition success was, ‘less water available to leak through the ceiling now than there was before I started’. I left the property and returned to my office. Getting out of my car at the office I felt my legs do that ‘tremor’ thing, you know, over-exertion total muscle exhaustion. (Like when you were a kid and someone dared you to do 50 knee bends as fast as you could?).  Mind you this was the first time, (that morning), I felt that way. Each of my trips up and down the attic ladder, flashlight providing the illumination, with 5 gal bucket in one hand, were anything but tremory. In fact, each step I took was very deliberate as I did not underestimate the potential of slipping and falling out of the attic of an empty house.

But as I walked across the parking lot,  I felt like I had run 8 miles. And I laughed (I am, after all, a clark). I laughed because I could see how effectively I limit myself.

Like most Readers, I try to stay healthy. I understand that exercise is a necessary component to a healthy life style and I make periodic efforts, in good faith and with sincere intentions to stay in shape. Nothing unusual there. (And) when I am in exercise mode, I will work hard, striving ‘to feel the burn’, whether it requires 30 minutes on a stationery bike or, of late, my two mile ‘run’, I am trying my best to exercise my muscles. Yet, prior to yesterday, I can’t remember the last time I felt that my legs were made of rubber. Tired out, winded, tight feeling in back of legs, sure, but rubbery? no. Clearly I have been nowhere near the limits of my physical strength/condition/capacity in a long, long time. And I was not aware of it.

That was the insight that made yesterday’s work adventure worthwhile.  What we tell ourselves, about ourselves is, by and large, intended to maintain the status quo. The insidious-ness of this is that not only can I have ‘good intentions’…. (stay healthy-exercise! learn more-study! find romance-take showers!)  but I can ‘take action’… (run 2 miles- boy that was tough! get a B- hey my studying paid off! find true love-I can get used to a person who uses double negatives!).  All without knowing my true capability/capacity/talent really.  Because of the tales we tell ourselves.

 

 

 

* how simple is the Secret of the Universe in terms of self-improving oneself when employing the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool? pretty frickin simple.

Votre attention s’il vous plait. Up at the top of this post, the first line? The first, type-don’t-think, version ended: “…and try to do something about finding an agent.”

Can I get an ‘Ayyyiiee’!?

My compliment to you Readers: I will say no more.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 22, 2021 By

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10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules):  “…[a] list that, you know, in your heart-of-hearts, simply can’t make any sense to anyone but the most logic-/CMS-/Sister-Catherine-grammar-class-deprived-Readers, who will not only immediately click to another website, but will, to be on the safer and prophylactically prudent side in terms of preventing further degradation of better judgment turn off the power to whatever device being used and storing it in a dark, cool place for several hours….” quid pro forma, op. cit. c. 2021-2022

9) the Secret Book of Rules/Book of Secret Rules (aka SBoR/BoSR) a feature of this bloghop that, in all due modesty, in and of itself sets Lizzi’s creation apart from all the other gratitude ‘hops in the blogosphere

8) Hypograts another stand-out element of the BoSR/SBoR that gets it elbows and hands above the crowd… like an ‘onside kick’ in football, if one were to describe how the thing is executed, many would walk away, muttering things like, “You want to get 80 yards in that direction, but you’re going not really try...” or “Sure, count on the opponent, who has only to run out the clock to win…do your best to put the ball in their hands”

7) music vids as aids to understanding the written word, better, music with a) attractive people or 2) little animated figures who accomplish more in increasing your enjoyment a work of classical music than a busload of music appreciation teachers driving the class to the beach, which also has an amusement park across the street from the ocean.

6) not one, or even two… But Ten (10 / dieci / zehn / kymmenen / dek / tekau / عشرة) Hosts (technically, co-hostinae) which is like saying, the more…the scarier? Current hostina: Dyanne

5) encouraging linkation to other places other than the site the hypothetical Reader has deliberately, or worst-case scenario, been completely hood-winked into opening by a throughly charming photo of a dog who, even from the static and at-a-distance medium of a photograph, (a fricken digital photograph, at that), conveys a sense of the potential that all life possesses to connect with everything else and, in doing so, offering, what is arguably, the key to a fuller appreciation of all that the world and the people who make it up, have to offer.

4) Linking to fictional people in imaginary worlds leading lives that are limited only by the skill of the author, which is akin to wearing a skin diver’s wet suit (appropriately fully of water) and walking in a desert… (or something) err well, see for yourself whichever one of the following does it for you and don’t forget to ‘follow’). Places like the Six Sentence Story, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ or, even, the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing.

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (the guide to enhancing our understanding, appreciation for how we relate ourselves to the world around us and….the people who make it up)

2) Phyllis

1) Una

 

music (like we’re gonna forget that)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 12, 2021 By

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Hey! Fun post here, yo.

Our friend, Ms. Avery, from the Six Sentence Story bloghop informed me that the interview is ready to go to print! (Well, not ‘print’ print, ‘print’ read is more accurate).

Damn!*

D. Avery, a most talent rhetorician** who has a site, SHIFTNSHAKE (Home-brewed Prose & Poetry) asked me a few weeks ago if I’d let her and her friends at this flash-fiction site, where she’s like a founder or mainstay or total core-group, called (the) Carrot Ranch, do an interview. And, I was all, like, ‘Well, sure?’

This being the Wakefield Doctrine I answered all the questions and such.

Here is the result of that process (and irrepressive evidence the Wakefield Doctrine is a hella good tool for self-developing oneself):

Saddle Up Saloon; Howdy Clark Farley

 

(Hey, do me a solid and click over there and, you know, write a comment and such… you don’t have to mention being denizens here in ‘Outsider Emporium’ and all lol Or, tell ’em ‘Yeah, I been been known to associate with dicey characters, alluring femme fatales and stream-of-consciousness gurae****)

 

* an expression of appreciation for others, mixed with a touch of the self-consciousness of the Outsider, (Outsider motto: “Well, I don’t mind attention from friends and (some) contemporaries…but reserve the right to feel slight discomfit prominence, which is, all too often, the precursor state to scrutiny.”) But I kid. It’s fun and, and!! New Readers? This is all directly attributable to the efficaciousness of one personality theory. (Hint: Rhymes with Wakefield Doctrine… lol)

** what the hell! I was going to apply one of my favorite jokes, you know, ‘not a ‘real’ word’ and, as I often do1 I looked up the word and it’s an actual, defined and listed in, like Mirriam-Webster and the fricken Oxford Dictionary!

**** pl. guru. example: you the Persistent Reader and them what identify with this crowd

  1.  being a clark, I have zero self-consciousness or such about looking up words… it’s not like I’m ever gonna be accused of being dumb or stupid, ya know? Crazy, sure, get that all the time, but the thing about being an Outsider, intellectual insecurity really isn’t an issue

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 8, 2021 By

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

What good is all this?

…. meaning, the amazing consistency of behavior to type, the congruence of predicated characteristics to actual elements in reality. You know, ‘how true the three personality types are to the experience we have in the ‘real’ world’.

A lot of good if you’re a clark. Less, if you’re a scott or a roger, depending on the level of significance of your secondary and tertiary aspects.

Tell you what, being Monday, lets keep it simplest.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool. And, just like the saw and the plane, and, even the raw wood itself, they are not the hand-fashioned chair or chest-of-drawer, that is the product of skilled effort. As a tool, the Doctrine provides one more perspective on ourselfs, the world around us and the people who make it up. And, as anyone will tell you, the more perspectives, the better.

So, lets conclude this post with a fun little bullet-point list of things the Wakefield Doctrine is and isn’t, (and, it behooves all of us to help the secondary/tertiary aspect-challenged among the people around us to work through this):

  • the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
  • the Wakefield Doctrine is not an Answer, (if you’re smart and lucky), however, it provides a bunch of useful Questions
  • the goal of the Doctrine is to better understand how we relate ourselves to the world around us
  • …and, in doing so, (or even the mere effort), we can see the world as the other person is experiencing it

 

Thats all for this morning…

Gots me a song in my head, it’ll help if I post it (misery shared is misery diminished) and let it play in your heads all day.

…thanks

Complete with video to make residual memories of younger days flash in your day-to-day world like Tyler Durden*

 

*most excellent movie

 

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