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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

There’s an old saying, “Fridays are the Monday-mornings of living a full and satisfying life.”

Why the love-hate relationship between clarks and the most looked-forward-to day of the workweek?

Consider that your homework.

New Readers! While our subscriptioneers get busy organizing their notes, and make sure they have enough yellow-highlights, clear-plastic rulers, No.2 pencils and, to be ready to take the assignment-completion-process up to the next level, a supply of three-by-five index cards; (Of course, there’s a cork board and little colored pins!), lets go for a quick tour of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine starts out with three different (yet intricately interrelated) predominant worldviews. ‘Predominant worldview’ is the preferred term denoting personal reality writ large. While scraping the guardrails in terms of a distinction between what an individual’s subjective reality is and the proposition that the whole, yeah, everything, world that is considered ‘reality’, knowing the differences between the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine are essential to deriving the benefits of this unique, fun and quite useful perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.*

We’re born with the possibility of having one, (of three), predominant worldviews being established (the the ‘other two’ becoming secondary), and thereby being our ‘reality’. It (the predominant worldview) shapes, influences and serves as the context in which we develop the tools and strategies that shape our subsequent relationship with life …and such.

The three are:

the reality of the Outsider(clarks)
the world of the Predator(scotts)
the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

If discussed in terms of personality types, the above are the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. For the Doctrine, personality type is not an assignment or a categorization based on a how many of a number of predetermined characteristics, traits or inclinations an individual demonstrates. Personality type is, for the Wakefield Doctrine, a description of how a person relates themselves to the world around them.

Learn the characteristics of the three, ask the question: “How is this person/how am I relating themselves/myself to the world around?”

The cool and fun part is the accuracy of the descriptions of the three ways to relate to the world.

There’s a bunch more to learn, but…. today is Friday. So have fun on the weekend.

* total, long-running, and favorite play-on-words here at the Doctrine… (and a totally obtuse reference to the ideas on reality as Carlos Castaneda so elegantly presented in his writings, i.e. reality is perception and the players contribute to the script, to mix as many metaphors and rhetorical devices as possible… ya know?)

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 9, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

…about that project, to employ the Wakefield Doctrine (or, more properly, it’s principles and tenets) in an effort to self-develop myself? I wrote a semi-brief intro in this past Sunday’s TToT post. Here.

Today is the first of the live events. (Weekly series of twenty minute discussions of the ins and outs of buying and selling real estate. One third: ‘how-to’; one-half: Live FAQ and one-quarter: leverage that social media.)

The Wakefield Doctrine’s position on self-improvement is simple. While I am a clark(Outsider) I retain the potential to experience the world from the perspective of the Predator(scott) and the Herd Member(roger).

(Door Number Two!!! Pick Door Number Two!!!) lol

Although I have not practiced, (nor grew up developing as a coping mechanism/social strategy), the profoundly confident and aggressive moves of a scott and have spent very little time waxing social, living the solidly-quantifiable life of the roger, I could…

…rather, I would have, had I settled into either of these two alternative personal realities.

The point is: I don’t have to find or otherwise discover qualities or inclinations, drives or tropisms out in the world and try to learn them. All I have to do is accept that I have the core qualities of the successful Herd Member and the strengths of the raging Predator.

…seems simple enough.

Will update on Friday, as tomorrow is Six Sentence Story day.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…what’s the deal with Tuesday, all agreeable and non-confrontational?”

December 8, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

While I do propose to write a new post, (with original content), I reserve the right to cite previously published posts. For one reason, I’ll be in a position to do any edits that I missed in the previous eleven years. Not edit for content, rather punctuation, extra spaces and/or grammar. You know, the spaghetti sauce stains of a very talented cook.

OK, I was going to write about Tuesday, but I added to the first paragraph just now and the metaphor, (or simile or analogy, whatever*), about the edit process had me use: ‘cook’ then I thought about it, tried, ‘chef’, then back to ‘cook’. Which, only naturally, reminded me of the Everything Rule.**

Remember that restaurant we use for an illustration of personal reality? Well, among it’s employees and, arguably the reason it is a crowded restaurant is because: rogers are chefs, scotts are cooks and clarks?.. err are busboys and hot-in-a-nearly-inappropriate manner waitresses.

More? What about how Tuesdays are the most genial and non-confrontational days of the workweek? (Well, yeah, we can come back anytime… Tuesday ain’t goin nowhere… well, insightful but …sure, why not?)

Military

scotts: drill sergeants (or any officer status up to and including general, for a time***)
clarks: private (or whatever rank they assign the un-trainable-but-necessary-specialty)
rogers: every rank (of the three, the military (or, for that matter, any bureaucracy) is where there will be rogers totally fitting in…and loving it.

Medicine

clarks: pediatrician, respected-but-not-overly-sucessful psychiatrist
scotts: surgeons
rogers: oncologist, medical examiner

Education

clarks: elementary (…early elementary, if you please, try to maintain a certain level of peer relationship lol), college
scotts: phys ed on any level, vocational arts (or whatever they call ‘shop’ these days and any subject in high school that involves adolescents
roger: middle school, high school in any subject except art (in an applied sense, art appreciation is workable)

Sorry, out of time!

I have my own Wakefield Doctrine Practicum project, i.e. a live, video event that is going to be out there**** every Wednesday. More to follow. Basic description is: Can the engagement of a secondary/tertiary aspect result in developments of one’s predominant worldview such that it can affect the world around us, and the people who make it up?

To be cont’d

* I do not have tattoos, just don’t belong to the proper age demographic for permanent skin markings, (now, we want to discuss markings, scribbles, doodles, jailhouse are and painstaking scrawls repeated sufficiently to inscribe granite of the soul… that’s another matter ….lol), however it is totally not a leap for me to imagine getting a discreet tattoo of the definitions of these rhetorical devices, in a tasteful and discreet location… the apocryphal inside forearm.

** ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another’ a cautionary regulation to help us avoid the trap of “Well, thats something only a (fill-in predominant worldview here) would do!” Not valid. While it is understood, nay!, embraced that some personality types might have a certain affinity for the requirements of a given occupation/avocation/recreation or vocation which makes them a ideal (whatever) in the eyes of the background culture, the ‘other two’ will manifest that quality, different but same.

*** lol only a scott or a roger would ask for clarification on that reference to ‘out there’…. clarks? the world and the people who make it up are the ‘out there’.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of parentheticals and internal monologues”

December 5, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

This, (more often than not), is the place where we, (the editorial ‘we’, not necessarily the ‘you-and-me-we’), have the opportunity, (if not ‘prompting’), to reflect on the week that has just passed. The theme, (of this bloghop), being gratitude, it, (this backwards-looking), is less critique and more appraisal. Yet, (if we are to maximize our efforts to self-improve ourselves), the categorizing of the people, places and things that’ve stimulated our ‘gratitude bone’* to: positive, negative and Pilgrim’s Progress-type events; (yet) will, (yield), maximum benefit, (if not), establish them in a context of ‘good thing that happened’ versus, ‘what a shame’.

However you choose to approach, (the task of writing a TToT), we might appreciate the wisdom of our Founderess, Lizzi. Not only did she describe an ideal size of a Grat List, she included the proviso that the total, (number), remains in the hands, (and keyboards), of the participants. Further thoughtfulness is demonstrated by the (implied) inclusion of the idea of an item requiring a classification of ‘hypo-gratitudinous’ (which is, of course), the thing that while it doesn’t make one happy, upon careful reflection, reminds us not to be unnecessarily unhappy. (Plus!) she allowed for the access to a Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). Good work, Mizz L.

Which brings us to today. Dyanne is our host. She has provided a place for like-minded people to not only gather, but to share thoughts, insights, reflections and made-up-shit under that aegis of the Sage of Manchester.**

(At this point of the intro, I might include a word-to-the-wise, (for the benefit) of New Readers and/or as (a reminder) to regular participants to share their grat posts in the atmosphere of consideration and good intent that hosts, since 1992, have established and, not to get out of line…lest we forget who the current host is…. never mind.***

jeez them plastic keys on this computer is mighty itchy this morning!

1) Una

What?

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see item #4 below) this work project will be used (in these pages) as both laboratory and study hall. We did a live rehearsal/soft opening this week. Had invited guests. Got feedback. Nothing surprising, but the work is still ahead. Even allowing for being a clark, the study of oneself on video while practicing something not comfortable… I.e. public speaking, calls for a bland diet and faith in the principles of a certain personality theory.

Should be fun.

4) the work project (true to my predominant worldview, i.e. Outsider(clark))… I am behind a camera even as I am on camera… is there nothing a clark won’t do to give proof to the saying: ‘While never enjoying the spotlight, a clark will not tolerate being ignored.’ lol

5) the Six Sentence Story (sorta like that card box full of comic books that one kid you knew, not a friend, more a friend of a kid a friend of yours knew, always seemed to have… not that you didn’t have some of them, he had all of them (and in perfect condition)

6) the remarkable work Lizzi did creating this thing of hers..( yeah, I mentioned this above, in the intro…did you think I was new to this Grat-listing thing?? lol)

7) ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE To anyone reading this who think they’d like to take this here bloghop here out for a test drive. Send in a Grat, will post it here and (you can) see how it looks!

9) something, something. (Thumbnail (on the landing page) is courtesy of Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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* not a ‘real’ bone, at least not in the anatomical sense… maybe the analogic (or similistic, can never keep those rhetoric things apart). Kinda interesting, though… we all know there is such a thing as a ‘funny bone’. If there were a analogue for gratitude, would it be a limb, or…an organ or maybe a system? ‘Boy howdy, this surprise party has my gratitude ducts all….’ err maybe not

** don’t bother checking wikipedia, they do not have such a listing …yet

*** ‘Get out of line’… Dyanne… as if

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 4, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Who said, ‘When are you going to do a gigantic challenge to demonstrate the efficacy of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself?’

err.. I guess I just did.

Regular Readers* will recall past demonstrations and efforts to apply the principles of the Doctrine to my own circumstances. The one that jumps out (for us) is (one of) our trips to Salt Lake City. Will try to find the post and reprint it today.

This, (the finding and reprinting of a post), is necessary as one of the guides to self-improvement projects that I happen to subscribe to is: Set initial goals that are achievable. Better to reinforce the process at the beginning. There will always be time to set lofty goals, later in the process.

Here, from June 12, 2020

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

A truly interesting and exciting week coming up, not only for the Progenitors and DownSprings, but for the Wakefield Doctrine it’s own damn-self! We’ve organized our thoughts, devised a strategy for the Convention and we all set.

Here is the Strategy:

Devise a Plan ( “…can I go out and play now? puleeze!! I did my homework!” )

…and the Plan is divided into 2 Steps:

Is the situation dominated by a clarklike, scottian or rogerian worldview ( “…’dominated’ you used the word ‘dominated’…by a clark?? yeah, right!” )

Adopt the appropriate aspect*

Example: waiting in an airport terminal: take on the clarklike worldview as clarks are the superior travelers (“...the White zone is for Loading and Un-Loading only…”)

Example: entering a large function room for a ‘meet and greet’: adapt the scottian perspective, cause there’s at least one dominant predator in the room and a whole bunch of prey (“… and do not, we repeat, do not use the podium at the from of the room like a fire hydrant, metaphorically or not! ” )

Example: break time between seminars: when in a large room with a lot of people socializing, go rogerian keep telling yourself, they are all people you nearly remember!

That is the Basic Plan

We will open the floor to: Comments, input, criticism, suggestion, illusions, dillusion and/or allusion… lets do this thing!
Call and write and tell what you think, place your bets…

Oh yeah!! The Wakefield Doctrine has a Twitter account, so twitter us at @wakefielddoc we will check in constantly and will answer your Questions live from the floor of the Convention.

* ..oh yeah, you New Readers don’t know about aspects. Damn, how about you people read up on the Wakefield Doctrine before you get into these Posts… un-organized and confusing layout? yeah, it might be a little ….challenging to read and understand… alright, you do the best you can and I promise we will make a major effort to organize this blog better!
(Quick definition: the three ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine are, in fact, three characteristic worldviews. By worldview, we mean a personal reality that you encounter everyday when you wake up. This is nothing extreme or weird, just that the nature of the world can be characterized in one of three ways: the world as experienced by the outsider (clarks), the reality of the predator (scotts) and the life of the herd member (rogers). We are all born with the potential for any of the three, but pick one in early childhood. We say that our pre-dominant type is clark or scott or roger. We never lose the other two, however. So I am a clark with a secondary scottian and tertiary rogerian aspect.

Get it?

Illustrations/examples of what we mean by ‘aspects’ in the context of our little Experiment:

clarklike worldview: watch, observe, note the characteristics of those in the immediate environment ..hell, note the effects of the design of the terminal you are sitting in
scottian perspective: move! walk! find the most tempting target and ask them questions, look them in the eye (when asking) talk loudly and forcibly (lol) if in the mood, wave your arms when talking
rogerian: feel like you nearly remember most of the people in the room, find the person you feel you probably met at the last convention, go to them and say, “weren’t you in Salt Lake City this March?”

* lol I love that every time I write ‘Regular Readers’ I think, ‘Yeah, right!’. But unless someone out there has an alternative label for the people who follow this blog, (in contrast to) those just stumbling over our little personality theory blog, I will continue to refer to (the) Friends of the Doctrine as Regular Readers.