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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 5, 2025 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Way, way behind today.

Gotta be uncharacteristically brief (trying for brusque, settle for concise).

The Wakefield Doctrine offers you a tool to self-improve yourself. It is found in the basis of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, to wit: what we refer to as personality types is but an outward reflection of how a person relates themselfs to the world around them, and the people who make it up.

That’s it!

Have a great day!

lol… no, serially. ok, one more insight: that statement about our relationship? the key phrase, (and therefore most mis-understood), is ‘how we relate ourselves to the world’.

Note: we did not say, ‘how we relate to the world…’

critical, simple and way-difficult little distinction.

to look at how ‘we relate ourselves to the….’ requires we know ourselves. Libraries filled with books on the topic of knowing oneself. And, not to get all-up-in-the-prose with what that means, lets let someone who is a little bit more famous (which, alas, is all too often synonymized with ‘credible’) say it. that way we can get out there and do something good.

And…and! it’s fun! …(using the Doctrine as a perspective not reading Lao Tzu): “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom”

so the wisdom and inner peace may take some time, but go out there today with the profiles of clarks (Outsiders), scotts (Predators) and rogers (Herd Members) in mind. we guarantee you will be glad you did.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 4, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Quick post.

Lets go sift through the recent comments that derive from our Six Sentence Story, Unicorn Challenge and/or TToT posts.

…hold on

…sorry.

just did a link to a video in our Reply to Cai’s comment. Below. Sorry, not below, over in the TToT post from this weekend. It was the Mad Dog and Glory clip.

damn! the whole Doctrine on a 3 minute clip.

since the clip provided such clear examples we won’t bother with much more detail other than to say Perfect!

New Readers? Here’s your Cliff Notes: Robert De Niro is a clark (Outsider, lives in his head), David Caruso a scott (Predator manifests life in his actions) and the guy beating up on the woman, a roger (Member of the Herd)

(Language alert. Not like, say the clip from Casino, but artistic use of Eff Explosives)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 3, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

RePrint Monday!

ok. before the RePrint:

three personality types, we live our lives in the context of one, (and only one), our personal reality is a reflection of the nature, (and character), of our relationship to the world around us and the people who make it up. as we said, three: clarks (the Outsider), scotts (the Predator) and rogers (the Herd Members). our personal realities support, reinforce and otherwise make our personality types pretty much perfect (ok, we’ll allow for ‘appropriate’). clarks live in their heads, scotts manifest their spirits in the action of their acts and rogers find and strive to be the ever-moving center of the world. most people with a little time and a healthy dose of intellectual confidence (and curiosity) find this theory interesting. (ProTip: if you are moved to comment (which we totally encourage and welcome) but feel compelled to let us know that, for reasons beyond your control (not saying this isn’t an interesting theory), you are the exception to the rule and are all three types at once? we will ask one question, on the honor system, of course. in the perverse way of the 21st C, the honor system is alive and well, albeit turned on it’s head, i.e. truth is what the individual takes responsibility for believing. the one question? ‘How much is 2 + 2?’

RePrint!

‘Monday the unlikely’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…of Motivation and videos, serials and insights’

February 29, 2016

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

So a number of topics to cover:

friend of the Doctrine, zoe has a new bloghop that we are participating in, over at the Carrot… (this will be linked over there, so be on your best behavior! I don’t want a repeat of what happened last time we went visiting as a Guest Post writer! I still haven’t heard back from the blogger who asked us!)

running a little late on Chapter 20 (will still write a little teaser)

an old video, like the secret moon rocks sample, still waiting to go viral

Cynthia and Denise and I had a most excellent and insightfulizing discussion during Saturday’s Call-in…. about why clarks are so easily bored. We’ll trial-balloon a few thoughts today.

Carrot! (oh shit! I just jumped over there and…and she’s got people sending in genuinely interesting things, information and samples of, like, talented people working on things paintings and playing musical instruments, making really attractive jewelry. damn! gotta just tough it out)

Hey! I used to do travel videos! Well, not so much travel videos as videos of places that I visited when on business trips… not so much videos as selfies (before they were all the rage and total expected)…. here’s one I found in an old Post!

here you go zoe!

Item 2: Chapter 20…. a little late this week. Plan to publish tonight, still need a little polish and a rogerian review (courtesy of Phyllis). Chapter 20 accounts for what happen after Chapter 19…. no, wait, that did come out right, of course, it deals with Chapter 19! What I’m saying is that, you know how Chapter 19 ended? well, it now seems that Sister Margaret did not make the safest decision, one might even say that her impulsive act has set off a chain of events that no one could have anticipated… yeah, I know! I like Sister Margaret too! Watch for the Chapter later tonight, early tomorrow morning.

Item 3: well, that’s kinda already covered in Item 1

Item 4: so we were talking about the Doctrine and someone, I think it was Cynthia said, ‘I notice that I always end up getting bored, no matter how interesting or challenging or difficult a project might be at the beginning. You don’t suppose the Doctrine addresses that, do you?’ As a matter of fact, the Wakefield Doctrine does! The Wakefield Doctrine can say that it addresses virtually everything in life, because it’s concerned with relationships, not merely a list of activities, attributes, tendencies or inclinations. The Doctrine does not limit itself to providing a comprehensive list of things that hopefully match what a person ascribes to their own personality types. No, it does not. What the Wakefield Doctrine does, is direct our attention to the way, ‘we relate ourselves to the world around us‘. (Note the exact wordation. I didn’t mean to say, ‘we relate to the world around us‘, there is a huge difference in the two statements). So that’s why I think we can work with the topic that our accomplished friend has raised…. in the next Post! lol (sorry, gots to finish Chapter 20)

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Friday’s CCL -the Wakefield Doctrine- Part.II

February 2, 2025 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to jenne and ceayr‘s bloghop, ‘the Unicorn Challenge‘

Only rule (yeah, bet they sometimes regret that elegant approach to conformity): top word limit of 250.

“I’ve got this.”

The man remembered to add a smile to his voice as the young woman reached out. To his credit, the smile was dosed with a genuine sense of pride, tinged slightly with resentment.

“I know you do.”

The woman deployed a cascade of non-verbal signals and decoys. Her reciprocating smile every bit the chocolate chip cookie shared between young friends, the crumbs from the breaking of no concern to the one making the offer, the size of the proffered half, everything to the other.

Without looking, the old man stepped down the first step, his right wrist brushing slightly on the wrought iron rail.

‘I’ll be careful.”

As ostentatious and obvious as the subsidy from Elizabeth I to James VI, truly deserving a place in the Hall of Gifted Horses, the man allowed his cleverness to erode his caution. His left foot lagged behind. The casual trajectory ruined, he stubbled.

That the grasp on his upper left arm was strong was not the most offensive consequence of his unconscious miscalculation. The barely discernible time between action and reaction was.

The man felt a frown grow, increasingly fecund lichens hiding in the cracks of a fieldstone wall, but remembered that emotional demeanor was as critical as kinesthetic soundness.

“Caught you napping, did I?”

The old man and the young woman laughed. Her’s was a professional skill, his a desperate marshaling of unreliable resources; the defiance in his voice a guttering torch held against the gathering darkness,

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [an Ian Devereaux Six]

January 31, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, governed by a single rule (that stories be of six sentences in length, no more and no less)

Prompt Word:

“No Fricken Way”

The smell of coffee and the skittering of metal on china was my welcome to my new ‘here and now’; I took a moment, closing my eyes against the reality I found myself in and recalled a line from one of Carlos Castaneda’s books in which don Juan Mateus confides in his half-comic-relief foil, Carlos, that, ‘the world is a feeling’. I treated myself to a smile of pride at not going into catatonic regression in light of the events of the previous ten minutes (or days), as I honestly had no idea how long ago my encounter in the tunnel under College Hill had been.

“Tell me, how expensive is this little operation, the drugs alone must be a huge part of your budget, Mr….” having resigned myself to being a captive audience to the man sitting opposite me, I opened my eyes, looked around and started to laugh.

In the booth behind us, a young family, the boy couldn’t have been more than six, his eyes like saucers at the prospect of breakfast in the middle of the day and, pancakes at that; over the shoulder of the man without a name a young college-age couple: his hair was a blond waterfall breaking on the shoulders of a Salvation Army trench coat and he talked in a mumble that relied on the gesticulation of his hands to clarify his torrent of words, the girl’s hair was long, freshly ironed and behind gold wire-rimmed glasses, her eyes were calculating as the equation of happiness was arranging itself on an invisible blackboard; had he not been as young as he acted, he might have heard the chalk scrape of the positive and negative integers of reproduction.

“Let’s set aside the mechanics of your little show, I’m willing to stipulate your production values are quite impressive,” looking out the window to the parking lot I could see the car I woke up in seemingly a minute ago, the street sign clearly readable as Thayer Street; looking down at our table, the sight of a chrome-wire rack of six different flavors of maple syrup triggered a chill up my spine, “In fact, let’s not argue minor points, the East Side International House of Pancakes was demolished in the mid-seventies, so fine, you’ve managed to transport me back in time fifty-plus years,” the man nodded silently;

“So what the fuck do you want?”