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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

We’re glad you’ve joined us on this end-of-Summer weekend. If you’re new to this ‘hop, the theme is gratitude, the format is list (10+-). Care to join us?* It’s simple: write you a list of the people, places, things or events that elicited the grat-response, link it up and you’re home free.

For the Wakefield Doctrine, the following we are grateful for:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop  ad hoc the Special event this week: Grat #8

5) Co-hostinae cai, she wrote, last week: “I love the walking tours. Can’t wait to hear the story of the rock.” …and we’re grateful for the opportunity to present the story:

6) no denying it… Summer might be coming to an end! ayiiee.

7) Friend of the Doctrine Mimi, she writes: ‘Here’s a thankful, I ran into a rogerian expression “in the wild” so to speak. On the nextdoor app, a lady asked if local colleges have a dress code. She was saying if they don’t, they should, as these young people are beyond casual and let everything hang out, front and back. She said it “leaves nothing to the indignation!” Hard to describe the manifestation of this Grat. Anytime we see the Doctrine applied to the personal reality of anyone not us, there’s a feeling of, my god! this thing is real. (ok, not so hard to too describe) Thanks! M (wondering what this rogerian expression thing is? it’s a primary characteristic of people who have Herd Member (roger) as their predominant worldview. So… follow this link to the Doctrine page on rogers and, almost at the bottom is a list of rogerian expressions.

8) Denise and her ‘hop hosted the Six Sentence Café & Bistro Poetry Slam for 2026. grat for that and for Chris for totally keeping everyone focused on the date and, new-to-the-Café, Reelika as rookie-of-the-year (in terms of the SSC&B not blogging which she has been around a while, Frank for adding the audio element to his contribution and supporting the Poetry Slam effort and Misky who, as always participated in a manner that makes it all look easy while contributing to certain elegance to the event.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*ok, just to reassure a certain percentage of visitors, as reassurance go see Misky or Andrew for a sense of ‘oh! ok, those grat people aren’t all slightly off

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

good, if not busy week.

Friday Quiz is Open Book.

(Selected the RePrint (below) mostly ’cause it mentions ‘pop quizzes and bulletpoints’. otherwise, you’re on own… self-grad them Answer sheets.)

yow!! Sill in original content mode:

Quick Survey/Opinion Poll:

of the three predominant worldviews: clarks (the Outsiders), scotts (the Predators) and rogers (the Herd Members) who is:

• most likely to cheat on an exam
• their explanation/excuse when caught
• who ratted them out

For simplicity and (to) steer clear of major life factors, this test/exam is given in the Sixth Grade.

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- of pop quizzes and bulletpoints

March 13, 2015

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

Don’t Forget! This Evening… Vidchat at Seven! (‘An Evening at George and Jane’s‘)  stop by!  it’s hosted by clarks, so that means what it lacks in social status, (“I can’t believe you missed it last Friday!! oh man! everyone was there!!!!”), is compensated by  odd conversations, funny in an interesting way and (sometimes) totally outrageous!

I trust you all know that we’ve found the Wakefield Doctrine to be useful to (any) effort to self-improve oneself.  I (further) assume that everyone recognizes that the Doctrine is ‘three things to three people’. (And) that, it’s not even necessary that you determine which of the three you are, prior to trying to using our little personality theory to help you in your efforts. Start wherever you are right now.   After all, ‘you can’t break it and, you can’t get it wrong‘.  Yep, we still maintain that assertion about the use of the Wakefield Doctrine.

You do know, don’t you, that we can tell which of the three you are, purely on the basis of which of the three you initially say you are…. lol  (Hey!  New Readers! We have a Rule about identifying one’s predominant worldview. It’s your worldview, so no one can say, ‘By Power of the (fill in something relating to your own worldview) I declare that you are a ….!’  Well, they can say it, and you can even ask them to say it, but no one has any authority to impose their opinion of your worldview (dominant, secondary or tertiary aspects).  Doesn’t mean we’re not all willing to share our understanding of the characteristics of the three worldview that are critical to understanding and identifying a person.

• For example: one of the more difficult ‘calls’ to make: attractive male person who appears very confident, even to the point of aggressiveness,  is he a scott or a roger? You might think, ‘Very aggressive  that must mean scott!’   ok… but you want to go deeper than that*
  they’re being aggressive, fine!  …with/at/towards who?  Are they ‘playing to the room’ or are they focused on one person.
  Now… (here’s a critical question), is it about them or the person they are focused on? What happens when they are rebuffed and/or told to go jump in a lake? Do they laugh or do they seem to be taking it personally?
• another very common situation (more often when a person seeks to determine their own predominant worldview):   you see a clark, i.e. the poor posture, the mumbling, the odd, (but interesting), fashion choices, but then this very same person, for a moment, holds the attention of the entire room…. you’re thinking, ‘maybe this is a combination type part clark and part scott‘!  You’d be right…but with the wrong conclusion.  We all have one predominant worldview, but also the potential to see the world from the perspective of ‘the other two’. For some of us, this ‘secondary aspect’ is so significant that we develop some of the behaviors and strategies and coping mechanisms of this ‘other worldview’…. and these behaviors come to the surface at times usually at times of stress or duress, ( ‘hey! I want ‘cha ta meet someone!!  these are my two cousins, Stress and Duress…. aint’ they hot?!  you ever wanna to have a wild night  lemme know!).
• so… bottom line on identifying a person’s dominant worldview:  we’re merely trying to infer how that other person is ‘relating themselves to the world around them’.  know this and you know them

OK!  end of Post.  Don’t forget to join us tonight.

….sure!  there’s got to be something I can say that will change your life (or have an effect for even just a single moment in your weekend)….

• clarks:  keep in mind this little fact that is shared by clarks alone…. more often than we allow, ‘it’s them, not us!  If you walk away from a surprise conflict (is there any other kind for us?) feeling bad with a tinge of  guilt that it was your fault? it’s them not you
• scotts: yeah… your gut on this one is right and even though you almost can’t imagine how that family member can believe something so wrong about themselves…. it’s true  and….and, chances are they’re used to it, so you don’t need to do anything immediately  but, definitely know that they will appreciate whatever you try to do, even if it is ineffective
• rogers: give yourself a break…. no, really. while finding and living ‘the Right Way’ confers to others nearly as much benefit as it does to you… they’ll survive if you take the weekend off, hell, they’ll enjoy it and you’ll have a re-energized feeling afterwards

7:00 pm

EDT

* the process of identifying a person’s dominant worldview is a lot like an optometrist eye test.  you start looking at the person through the lens of two worldviews (you always throw out the obvious ‘no way’…. in our example above where we said, ‘attractive….confident…aggressive’?  the ‘no way’ is a clark  which leaves you with scott and roger. From here, you go for more and more intrinsic characteristics and you’ll find that one of the views becomes less clear as the other becomes more and more focused.**

** this same process is used when you identify your own worldview

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You know the (secretly) most difficult aspect of self-improving oneself?

Accepting the: change/improvement/’this is how I would be as a person’ that result.

Doesn’t matter what it is, if you have a certain ambition to become: more/better/’like-that’. Unless, that is, you’re a scott or a roger with a seriously deficient clarklike aspect, you probably have things (about your ownself) that you wish was…different.

The Wakefield Doctrine excels in its capacity to serve as a tool in the effort to improve one’s experience. Wanna be assertive? Study the scott. Think that the assured sociability of a roger is desirable? Have at it. (god knows there ain’t no small supply of them!)

Question for clarks reading along, lol*.

Why is it you try to ‘ne more like…’ and forget five seconds into the first interaction of your day?

What? oh yeah, the question at the start of the post!

The most difficult aspect of self-improvement efforts…in a word: acceptance.**

**trick answer!  ‘ja ja‘ (as Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia once wrote). The concept of acceptance is one of those jinn-in-the-bottle situations that, curiously enough, most cultures down through history make a point of warning people about, (well, mostly children as the warning is usually disguised as a fairy tale, fable or whatever). It’s a total lynch pin to the whole process.  But let’s stay in our context here. The stated value of the Wakefield Doctrine is to aid in one’s effort to:

“…improve how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.”

Secret key: “how we relate ourselves to…’

That is where acceptance becomes … a thing, To know oneself is the starting point. We, all of us, have multiple versions/editions/’you’re gonna love this book, just you see’ of our ownselfs. Accepting all of them is a starting point. (Did not say: approve of/hate/deny/’you got a problem with that’?.

Acceptance. First square. Big-ass game board.

Will stop now.

HEy! Mark your calendars, schedule your Muse, stock up on pharmaceuticals for the Six Sentence Story  bloghop’s  Poetry Slam! Next Thursday the 27th  Hosted by the Six Sentence Café and Bistro.  Slots remain open for written, audio’d …hell, video’d poem readage on the Stage at the Bistro. Way-open format, provided it conforms to Rule of Six. (Lat. poetae Sextiteria)

Check in with the Proprietors with questions and such: Chris or Mimi or Denise . They’ll totally hook you up.

* like there’d be a scott or a roger still reading.

Speaking of Posters!

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the matter of secondary and tertiary aspects, briefly, hopefully succinctly and therefore, for the typical* Wakefield Doctrine Reader, useful

First:

Predominant worldviews, aka personality types:

• clarks (the Outsider) the person who relates to the world around them as would one who suspects they are different and, human nature being what it is, becomes wary of letting other know of this deficiency.
• scotts (the Predator) the ‘most natural’ of the three; pronounced prey drive, minimal need for introspection, lives to act with an emphasis on motion and aggression
• rogers (the Herd Member) the reason we have: culture (don’t judge, it’s a way relative accomplishment), technology because 2 + 2 is four with more certainty even than that which they ascribe to the ideal of the Right Way

Secondary aspects: since one has a predominant worldview, (and only one), that is a manifestation of the individual’s relationship with reality, the ‘other two’ remain, to a varying degree, an influence on a person’s perception of reality. Usually a secondary aspect is noticed in times of duress. If it offers a value that the individual can appreciate, it tends to be cultivated. A secondary or tertiary aspect cannot supplant or replace or otherwise have co-equal effect with the predominant aspect.

know why?

Because! Because this Doctrine system is not an assessment of self-reported inclinations, likes or dislikes. The Wakefield Doctrine is not a schema of observed preferences, tropisms or ‘rather do this than that’ in terms of an individual’s behavior.

The ‘personality type’ in the context of the Doctrine is simply a label identifying the social strategies, systemic behavioral adaptations based on the reality into which an infant finds themselfs at a very early age. In a sense, it is more accurate (but less fun) to say one is a mature, developed native to the reality of Outsiders, Predators and Herd Members. And, as such, act appropriately to the reality they experience on a personal, day-to-day basis.

This is why the likelihood of: “Hey! I got a strong secondary scottian aspect. I’ve seen me in action. I’m gonna practice all day/every day acting on impulse, pursuing prey and living in the here and now!! Then I’ll become a scott. Or, at very least some kind of hybrid.

No. No you won’t.

You will still wake up to a personal reality described (by this Wakefield Doctrine system) as that of: the Outsider/the Predator/the Herd Member.

You (dear Reader) currently have the perfect personality type.

…for the reality in which you grew up and developed and matured.

ya know?

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so we’re about at the end of Summer, which can only mean one thing: school shirts.

As with most of this blog, we place less value on the certainty that what we write makes sense to any random Reader and all of it (value) on those who get it.

Unlike the vast majority of popular of general and special interest blogs, we rely on a certain quality of Reader.

Of course, from all reports, the blogosphere is not what it was back in 2009 when we wrote our first post.

It was a glorious time. A time of ideas and acceptance and the rogerian bloggers covered the landscape, as far as the eye could read.

but, we digress

in the earliest of Doctrine posts we spoke of people with a certain quality, call it intellectual adventurism. A self-confidence that encourages experimentation and embraces the odd and unusual.

As with most things Doctrine, (and implicitly one’s efforts to become fluent in the perceptual dialect of the world as experienced by three predominant worldviews (aka clarks/Outsiders, scotts/Predators and rogers/Herd Members), the more one learns, the more there is to see/experience.

But today the magic word is ‘school shirt’.

not for nothin’ but the Wakefield Doctrine is, when you cut out the fun (like who would want to do that?!?) is simply a metaphor, albeit a behavioral metaphor.

And god know, your Curator do loves them metaphors.

To the shirts (new) and you’ll be free to wander the earth (for today).

So the weather becomes humid. But the morning sky is a deep blue. The search for fun becomes increasingly desperate. Unspoken is the challenge: What Did You Do this Summer?

…and then the school shirt. Smelling of plastic, tissue paper rustling dryly and glinting, the pins. If you are too young, the command arrives, “Try one on. Let’s sit if if fits.”

The smell of industrial starch in the perfectly smooth fabric is part of the plan to distract you from that one last pin. As much as you shake out the shirt, the primary creases remain, the hidden serrated edge waiting for your second-of-the-Summer burn to come into range.

… next stop: grocery bags to be cut up into book covers.