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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 8, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Rhode Island College, Providence RI

Full Disclosure: I was rushing to write, before the blinding actinic/arctic sunlight hit my blind-less windows and washed out the words. Occupied, as I was, hurling wordage at the screen, I went into ‘Search all Posts’ mode. Keeping my search parameters simplest, I typed one word: snow. I got back 108 posts. Scrolling from top-to-bottom of the first page, I came to the post title (below). That was all it took.

‘Hamlet’ and ‘Snow White’ the Wakefield Doctrine “…yes, as a matter of fact, we are saying that the Doctrine sees parallels in these two children’s tales”

February 19, 2014 By clarkscottroger (Edit)

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

(special thanks to Kristi/K2 and zoe for a) by letting me know that we are back to having simple Doctrine fun, thereby causing Posts like the following and 2) saying something that caused me to crack myself up thanks guys!)

So I took a long lunch hour yesterday. I felt my cold attempt to make a comeback, plus it was snowing, so I thought I would watch a movie. I picked ‘Hamlet 2000‘ with Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan and a bunch of people you’d recognize. It was a good movie. The ‘hook’ for me, was that it was done against the backdrop of contemporary Manhattan (I think the correct term is ‘modernized’, go figure). I always enjoy ‘modernized’ versions of old plays…there’s something so ‘worldview-ey’ about how the story comes across, like the Director is saying, ‘you know this originally had guys with swords and swooning maidens and shit, but look, swap the swords for guns and bring in some hip hop on the soundtrack and it totally works’. And, of course, that’s exactly what we say about the Wakefield Doctrine, never mind if

you’re young or old, male or female, living in the get-tow or a house on the ocean,

you look around this morning and feel like everything makes sense (with a little effort on your part)

you get out of bed and think, ‘today I’m going to make up for all the things I’ve let everyone down on before’

you stand in the shower and enjoy the water pounding your body, knowing that life is fast-paced, exciting, dangerous and fun,

the world around you is a world in which you are the Outsider (clark) or the Predator (scott) or the Herd Member (roger) and that is as it should be, but know that, because we are all heir to all three of the worldviews, you have within you, the innate capacity to deal with life no matter what it throws at you today. Even if you find that you seem to be walking into the same trap again and again or you find that you fall back into being a mumbling, projectile apologetic well-meaning person or if you find your temper rising, even though you know if should not bother you so much, take heart. You have an inner (clark) and (scott) and (roger).

so anyway, I enjoyed the movie, man! more famous quotes in that single play than anywhere!! I liked ‘the clothes doth oft proclaim the man’ (lol, yeah, it’s a lot like listening to old blues records and then modern artists, sometimes it’s just the influence you can hear in the new ‘versions’, and other times it’s the whole lick).

Snow White? oh yeah! lol just like Hamlet except done for: children and/or girls*

Hamlet is a clark and Snow White is a clark

Claudius is a roger and Queen stepmother is a roger

Gertrude is a scott and all Seven Dwarfs are (collectively) a scott

…gotta get out to work. Let me know how totally on target this is…. lol

*the Wakefield Doctrine is totally gender neutral, loosen your minds up! this is a lot like music, it is not necessarily note for note in a matching or complimentary key or even steady pitch… it’s the feeling you get when you hear: ‘it’s Hamlet for children and/or girls’ lol no!! seriously

OK! That should get those of us born before 1983 up and going…lol No, do not do the math on the video above. It is too long a time for a person still waiting to turn into an adult.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of dreams and phantasms, blueprints and wishes, self-improving-oneself.”

February 2, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Who out there wants to hear some down-and-dirty tricks to identify the predominant worldview in people…including yourself?*

Gather a group and pose the question: “As an exercise, so don’t worry about the ‘how’, tell us, who would you rather be?”

Complete the following sentence, “A cop and an accountant walk into a bar, just before the door closes behind them, they hear a voice from the sidewalk behind them. What’s the voice saying?”

How much is 2 + 2?

In that moment the balances between sleep and awake, when the dream-shards fall to the floor and form almost a map that you know, if you’re careful and not move too quickly, can lead you back to the nightlands, you think about the day ahead. Fully committed to being awake, you begin to list the features of the day ahead, in the world out there.

Here’s a post from July 10, 2012. It discusses methods for determining the predominant worldviews of the people in your world.**

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

…a mighty bold claim indeed! The Wakefield Doctrine can, in fact, predict the way that any given person will respond to common, everyday, life situations. With an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, what is puzzling (and aggravating!) about the behavior of the people in our everyday lives becomes totally clear, (maybe still aggravating…but clear!)
While the Wakefield Doctrine is a very useful, insightful and revealing approach to a subject that is always on our minds, it is not such a serious, difficult-to-learn Personality Theory. Rather ‘the Doctrine’ is a fun way to know more about your friends and family members and neighbors than you ever thought possible. Here in this blog, there are pages listed that will explain each of the three personality types, but it is/are the Posts where the fun is meant to be found. All of these Posts are, in a sense, a long conversation about the Wakefield Doctrine, where it came from, what it says about personality types and human behavior…how to have fun with it.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all live in one of three characteristic realities: the world of the outsider (clark), the world of the predator (scott) or the world of the herd member (roger).
We have descriptions of the common behavior exhibited by the three personality types. The goal, however, is not just to match the behavior to the person and then stop. Rather we look for characteristic behavior, then infer (from that), the nature of the personal reality that the person is living in and then we know way all about that particular person. If we have correctly inferred the worldview of the person (as being the world of a clark or a scott or a roger) we can predict how that person will react to any situation! Pretty cool, huh?

Enough of the knowledge, lets get to some of the fun!

(With apologies in advance to Jeff Foxworthy)

If you immediately stop surfing the channels because you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger

If you love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott

If you find a pamphlet stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.

Asked a question and you start your answer with “in the beginning…” you might be a clark.

Someone gets your name wrong and you answer to it without correcting them… you might be a clark.

As a child building model cars, you made sure that the extra parts were put back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.

You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark

You think that Borat was one of the funniest movies of the year…you might be a scott

You think that the 107 episode, Directors-cut, 15 DVD, un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes, including what he had for breakfast) and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone (who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger

If you have any inclination to wear hats for a fashion statement, or any clothing designed specifically for riding a bicycle (branded or un-branded)…you might be a roger.

You are at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including, but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.

If you are contemplating a project of any sort; building a deck for your house, writing a term paper or planting a garden:

…you look forward to making the list of things you need to buy/gather/acquire first more than anything else…you might be a clark

…you must know what your friends on the, ‘do it yourself’ shows have done, that is what you want…you might be a roger

…CONTEMPLATE? PLAN? I JUST FINISHED IT! FUCK YOU ITS DONE NO THIS IS FINE THE WAY IT IS… you might be a scott

That will be quite enough for today. In conversations with the Progenitor roger and scott, I have maintained that the best new rock music is coming from the country guys… I wonder if Ronnie James knows that Jason Aldean seems to have appropriated a certain hand gesture…lol

https://vimeo.com/437588253

* ok, clarks, we know, “We thought you just said ‘people’!” ha ha We are people. Well, in a strict inferred sorta way, not ‘real’ people that way that rogers and scotts are real people.

** pro-tip… if you give into the temptation to simply describe to another person the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine:

you’re talking to a clark… watch the eyes. If you’re close enough, look for a dilation of the pupils, see that and you’re explaining it correctly
ya got yourself a scott, and it’s just the two of you… a smile is not such a good sign, a laugh, (without them shouting to any passersby to get over and listen to this) is not a bad thing… be careful if their attention, (the characteristic focus of the eyes of a scott) seems to falter and their smile fades… this scott has a secondary clarklike aspect… be careful that they don’t think they’re being cornered…wouldn’t end well
of course you know a roger… like with a Scott, (but for entirely different reasons), make it just the two of you… if they start asking you questions in a list-like format, back off, not enough that they think you’re getting upset, rather, go for an ‘Ok, I’m bored now, you’re clearly not interested’ and try to walk away. If anyone else comes into range of the two of you, walk faster.

I trust that will be helpful.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…who just said, ‘You haven’t written a weird Post in a while… come on, make us glad to be scotts and rogers!”

January 19, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

They say, the tools for self-improving oneself contained in the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, are second to none.

They, no matter how often they change sides, are pretty damn right!

But, you say, “Who needs to improve”, asked the scott. “Yeah, what she said and, besides, who asked you?” agreed the roger.

“No one,” mumbled the clarks, words filtered through hands-to-face and makeup’d eyes. Even on the word, ‘No’ they became less distinct, more part of the background, more…. “Who was that standing next to you? I’d swear there was someone there…” a tilt to the head, as if hearing something unusual… which is not a new experience to an Outsider, yet familiar somehow, which has happened, from time to time… then a pause a recognition of something that they knew but believed they did not know…the existence of other clarks.

Being careful not to focus too clearly, lest well-intentioned, but badly misinterpreted, feelings should cast too much light, we see the other Outsiders.

Clamping down on the congenital reaction, “Well, I knew they were there..” we let the fact simply be. Like staring at your hands in a dream, the important thing becomes apparent: while you can’t see an Outsider directly, you can feel their existence. With discipline that becomes sufficient and the growing of identification begins.

Claiming the right to shameless self-promotion, courtesy of our weak, tertiary rogerian aspect, here is a video clip. (New Readers? If you’ve been doing your homework, you will immediately recognize a scott in the vid. Depending on your own clarklike aspects, we can assure you, the other person is a clark.)

Evidence of Efficacy of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself:

Sorry, if you’re a New Reader, clarks are the original photo-phobes. But you knew that. What the Doctrine can offer, by way of helpful insight, is the balancing contrast of the three predominant worldviews. Meaning, there is a relationship among the three that can be quite helpful. (Well, duh! The Wakefield Doctrine tells us, right up front, that we’re all born with the capacity to experience the world as an Outsider, a Predator and a Herd Member. It also reminds us that, even though we develop our personalities in one (and only one) of these three, we never lose the capacity to experience the world as do ‘the other two’.)

hint…hint on that last line. thats where the self-improvement piece of the puzzle is hidden.

music (for working through the above)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Created by Lizzi in the halcyon days of 1987, the TToT is currently hosted by Circe, Kansas’s native daughter, Dyanne.

The rules are simple, and by virtue of being, but suggestions, will aid in your enjoyment of this exercise, far, far more than they will burden you.

List the people, places and/or things that have recently, or in the past, elicited, stimulated or otherwise engendered a sense/feeling/state of gratitude.

For those of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine, this week’s citations:

1) Phyllis —————————————————→

2) Una ^

3) the Wakefield Doctrine sine qua non, is all, sine. qua. non.

4) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing (a work project) You could have us totally beholden to you, if’n you’d go over to our YouTube page Once there, you’ll notice a video has started playing, (it’s our most recent briefing). If you’d be so kind to click on the Subscribe button (and the Instagram and Twitter which are up in the lower right of the banner at the top of the page.) By doing so, you will help us get closer to the required number of subscribers for to be entitled to a custom url for our account.

5) Writing Practice (in the form of two serial stories): ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which, for any bloghop dedicated to, built upon a theme, as the TToT, is very much a case of replacing the 8 Crayon Pack with a 64 Crayon Box (‘With Built-in Sharpener!’)

7) The Six Sentence Story hosted by Denise. A source of marvelous flash fiction, freshly written and posted every Thursday

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (It’s true!) This, Item Eight, is reserved for anyone who, while finding the idea of participation attractive, hesitates. Write a ‘single’ Grat and pass it on in the Comments below, (am resisting the flashback to grade school…resisting….) too late, the only difference: while we will, in fact, share your message with everyone, the environment here, at the TToT, is markedly different from that of the fourth or fifth grade. One of the remarkable things about our host, Dyanne and her co-hostinae, Mimi, Pat and Lisa is that they remember. …what it is to be all the people in our little classroom metaphor. The note-writer, the note-passer, the note recipient, the teacher and/or the classmates/Readers that laugh, not to inflict pain, but to share in the human desire to connect.

9) something something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [in part] “…[t]he progress (in) citing the precedent half of a List of Ten Things, ‘the first Five’ lends itself to the developing belief that the task will be successfully completed [ibid. ‘my god! I’m almost done!’] and, by virtue of being closer to Ten than to One ( ‘visus finis est, damn!‘) the feeling is valid as the final Grat.”

music?

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…the war between hope and fear”

January 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

(uh oh)

No! Wait! Come back! We promise this is not one of those osmium screed*, raising tantalizing questions only to leave the ‘to be cont’d’ crew to explain to everyone how the full answer will be forthcoming.

The full story on the Wakefield Doctrine… at least in terms of its value and it’s utility*** not to mention it’s entertainment value, in bullet point:

there are only three personality types to learn
the names of the personality types are free of impressive letters and numbers and surely-this-is-scientific nomenclature (we’re looking at you, Oscar-Meyer, Briggs & Stratton)
the stated characteristics of the three personality types are not pre-determined qualities, traits, tropisms and ‘you-bet-I-wanna-do-that(s)’ against which the scores from surveys, questionnaires, assessments and profiles are held in order to classify the individual; rather the perspective, (forming the basis for the three personality types), are described and made available… the Doctrine believes in user participation
speaking of perspectives, the Wakefield Doctrine is not a diagnostic or assessment, it is a perspective on the world around (a body) and the people who make it up
expert application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will make available insights into the actions and behaviors, thoughts and inclinations of those both close to us and, even, total strangers
the Wakefield Doctrine is not ‘an Answer’… it is a tool for helping fill in the blanks that our own personality types invariably produce as we look around us
the goal of the, (application of), Wakefield Doctrine is two-fold: a) ‘to better see the world as the other person is experiencing it’ and 2) to increase our understanding of how it is we relate ourselves to the world around us
…and, with sufficient effort, imagination and reading, to be in a position to say, “Man, what a Roger! I won’t blame myself” or “Jeez! Someone’s a bit scottian, I think I’ll just lower the old profile” and “She/he is not too clarklike, I suppose they really want to believe that while nobody is watching, they won’t be ignored”
its fun…try it

* ’cause Wikipedia says osmium is the heaviest metal why else would I spend ten minutes, (including the time spent trying to find a photo of Ronnie James** that will fit in this space), looking for the song below

** s’okay making a demographically-targeted reference

*** don’t worry, reading and learning, studying and enjoying the Wakefield Doctrine will not require you to use, ‘Really? Can’t you just speak without thinking about the sufficiency of the choice?’, words that have piled up in the closet like VHS tapes from the full set from Tony Robbins Series ‘Get rich and have giant teeth and the eyes of a face-eater’

#wakefielddoctrine, @thewakefielddoctrine

well, duh!