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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘a holiday classic’

July 4, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

A true classic in so many ways!

Readers: Here, in mid-Oceania, we are celebrating today the most scottian of holidays. The Fourth of July.

How scottian? Welll… how does: minimal clothing encouraged, menu geared to ‘eating-on-the-run’, cuisine grounded in out-door-cooking by impromtu chefs, copious amounts of aliphatic petroleum solvents in squeezable metal cans with a spout most professional squirt-gun enthusiasts would envy (for both volume and range) and…

Fireworks! sound to you?

The only holiday-specific activity that, on the other three hundred sixty four days of the year, requires a Master EOD rating (the insignia with Seven-Fingers wreath, that is). All explosive materials and devices, made available this one day of the year in your local Walmart, Ace Hardware, Toys ‘R Us and Hallmark Party Store.

Heck! Fourth of July and scotts be like:

sudden loud sounds and the profession of love
running and … capturing!
asking a group of the opposite gender: “Does this bathing suit look too small to you?”
on the wall of the local 911 call center: “Hey! Watch this!” and “Last reported traveling at excessive speed…”

We could go on all morning, but what’s the point of having a rogerian aspect (very weak, in the case of Your Humble Narrator) if we can’t leverage the past?

the first Doctrine post noting the proclivity of scotts and certain holidays:

a chart providing the average shelf-life of ideas for Posts* …..the Wakefield Doctrine ( happy scottian Holiday!)

July 3, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the personality theory that you can learn, understand and use today!! )

childhood memories involving learning to become a better person: …………………………… 6 hours
childhood memories involving learning bad habits and behavior: …………………………… 3 days
childhood memories involving doing something publicly embarrassing to adults: …………. 2 years
adolescent fantasies that result in being scarred for life:
(physically scarred): 3 years (emotionally scarred): 5 years
workplace situations that result in receiving a raise: ………………………………………………… 6 hours
workplace situations that result in being fired: ……………………………………………………….. 3 months
workplace situations that result in being arrested: ……………………………………………………. 4 years
relationship maturity demonstrated in daily life: …………………………………………………….. 1.4 hours
relationship immaturity demonstrated in public: ……………………………………………………… 4 days
a Post trying to illustrate the ephemeral nature of creative ideas: ………………………………….. 75 minutes

Quick reminder about the Holiday tomorrow: If you do not know that July 4th is one of the most scottian of holidays, then you need to write in one of the Comment boxes below 50 times

“scotts love loud noises, it lets them believe they can have an effect on the world“.

Seriously, picture the coming Holiday:

takes place at the height of the Summer season

eating and drinking to excess is encouraged

minimal clothing allowed in virtually all public places (including churches and hospitals)

outdoor sports activities including chasing frisbees, being dragged behind a boat and the use of explosive devices (such explosives, that were it December instead of July, a visit from Homeland Security would be the immediate result)

…minimal clothing

So for you non-scotts reading this, three July 4th Survival Tips:

stay indoors

keep the lights off and the glow of the TV shielded from windows and doors

turn up the air conditioning and ….wear extra clothes

We hope that helps.

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Toosday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 13, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

~~Let’s start with an overview of current bloghops we participate in~~…*

Wait just a minute.

We interrupt the casual tone of one starting the day with zero pressure, negative stress. Like the theme to ‘Leave it to Beaver’ (of song by the Platters), soft, melodious and resonating with the message, ‘Don’t worry, Everything is as it should be’.

nuh uh

This is the Wakefield Doctrine. A perspective on the world around, (all of), us and the people who make it up. The Wakefield Doctrine offers that, given a certain degree of flexible intelligence and confident curiosity we can, (all of us), see the world as the other person is experiencing it. By allowing ourselfs the additional perspective of the three personality types (aka predominant worldviews), we can know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

These three predominant worldviews are:

clarks (Outsiders)
scotts (Predators)
rogers (Herd Members)

And while each are quite distinct and distinguishable in terms of characteristic responses to everyday situations, they are all grounded in the notion that our relationship with the world, (established at a very early age), is the basis for our personality types. To put that more simply: We are, all of us, born with the potential to see the world as: Outsiders, Predators or Herd Members. It is this initial choice that informs our development of personality, the style of our social strategies and such.

Imagine waking up as a two or three year old in one of theses three realities. You don’t know that it is one of three ways the world can appear. It’s simply the reality. (After all, you are kinda young in our scenario, probably lacking in a lot of language skills. Ya know?) But the fact is:

everyone one else appear to know something about each other (and the world) that you cannot for the life of you see or understand. you know that you are a part of the others, the family, whatever group forms your immediate environment, but you don’t have the assuredness of the others in your family. you suspect you’re not really completely like them and rather than ask why that might be, you keep it to yourself. since you don’t remember missing whatever lesson of life the others evidence, a part of you urges caution. maybe there’s a reason you’re different. a not-good reason. you practice the strategies of appearing to be a part of, while constantly exploring the world (pretty much in your mind, via your imagination) in the hope of finding out why you’re the Outsider
man! the world is an exciting place. you know you’re a part of the group around you, the family, but there’s so much to do and so little time to do it. you get comfortable with your social environment but, inside, every waking moment, there’s an urgency to move, to do, to chase. some who you meet, you recognize and immediately establish a relative standing… a ranking. others? they seem to want to be chased, pursued and dominated. everyday something new, something to chase. fun isn’t quite the word, but when someone does something near you, more often than not you’re off and running. Predators do not live by waiting for the world to come to them.
huh. the people around you are …fine. they know you and you know them. everything is perfect. except when it is not. then you must earn your place in the group. without doubt there are ways to do things. live, interact with others that are…. well, basically, perfect. if you’re a part of a group, and you know this without knowing why or how you should, then clearly your responsibility to the others is to develop and practice this ‘better way’ and then, by demonstrating it to others, you will be valued. except for those who are different, those not a Herd Member.

* referring, of course, to Denise’s Six Sentence Story; jenne and ceayr’s Unicorn Challenge and the TToT. you should stop in at one (or all of ’em) Tell whoever asks that the Doctrine sent ya

Late in the day to post. Music to ameliorate

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Monday-RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 22, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

In keeping with recent conversations focused on the possibility that we have not been ‘keeping up’ with the changing demographics of Readers here, lets look for a really old post. Having written it, (we wrote all but a few guest posts), we’ll post it with notes on meaning. Then, we’ll wait for Readers to Comment, ‘Dude, we knew that!’ or ‘What the heck, you never told us that!’

…sorry, this is not such the basic, very early ‘this is the Wakefield Doctrine post’ but, everyone these days be sayin’ ‘video! only medium for the message, no matter what that message might be!’

From one of my roadtrips. (Rule of Roadtrips: when returning from a business trip, find someplace cool that, with judicious travel planning, can be visited while still getting home on the same day as a direct return.)

self-development, 3 personality types and the Wakefield Doctrine (oh yeah, damn almost forgot! Video Friiidaay!!!)

September 16, 2011

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

There will come a time, in the not too distant future, when people you know, will come up and say, “hey! I just heard about this Doctrine thing, and it’s supposed to be about personality types, but they have these hats and this guy travels around the world and takes these really strange videos and talks about rogers and clarks and scotts! Those are the names they have for 3 personality types…yeah…I know….but it’s true! they have pictures and charts and stuff and when I looked around at people here at school or at my job, there they were! Anyway, they said this Doctrine will help me change anything about myself that I want…and it’s true….”

…and that will be very cool, but you are here now and you are watching this thing of ours, and I am including you in the use of the word ‘ours’. With a Wakefield Doctrine hat (on your damn head) and a little patience you will be a part of the growth of the Doctrine. Of course, writing a Comment wouldn’t hurt either!
As we all know, to be a ‘personality theory/self-improvement tool’ ya gotta provide proof that it works! Alright, then take a look at these here videos here:*

Then on to the other Crossroads:**

…Tell me quick where I can get rid of these things!***

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* look at the geocoding of the location…damn Highway 61
** look up the legend of Robert Johnson and the Crossroads
*** ten bonus points on any future exam for knowing the name of the song these words are from without google

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 8, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

all right, enough with the fiction and the story-telling

… ok, enough with the fiction.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. As a perspective (note: an additional perspective) it affords one of the opportunity to appreciate reality in a slightly different way. And, with the proper intent, this means we can be better at whatever it is that we would be better at, in life.

We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world from one of three relationships. These three relationships are, what in less fun and useful personality schema, would be referred to as the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine:

the Outsider (clarks)
the Predator (scotts)
the Herd Member (rogers)

While essential to the understanding and use of the Wakefield Doctrine, we’ll return to the characteristics of the three later. (That said, most Readers who return to this site more than twice* upon understanding the nature of the what we refer to as (the three) predominant worldviews), extrapolate most of the qualities, characteristics, quirks and peccadilloes** of this thing of ours.

At a very early age, one of these three ‘realities’ becomes enduring. It is the world the child experiences. It is in context and (in) relationship to this world the individual develops the social strategies and styles of interacting with the world around them and the people who make it up. aka their personality.

(Note: we have but one predominant worldview. We retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’, these are referred to as secondary and tertiary aspects. For some these can be significant and therefore an element in their behavior, for others, barely there, no influence.)

The difference between this and other systems of understanding: we have the perfect personality type for the reality we experience, for the world in which we are living.

Before we leave for the day:

the ‘goal’ of the Wakefield Doctrine is to allow us to better appreciate how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.

So today: read up (among these posts) the descriptions and characteristics of the behavior and interpretation of everyday life from the perspective of: the Outsider (’cause neither of the other two wake up in the morning and try to figure what they’ll do in the world that waits them, ‘Out there’); and the Predator (hey, did you really think they’re completely asleep and that was why they’re staring at you like that, as you insist they will benefit greatly by waiting and reflecting finding inner serenity); and the Herd Member (sorry, as friendly and organized and remarkably social, you’re the one at risk, not them, they know and will be happy, no, they will be grateful for the opportunity to show you the Right Way).

Come, on! It’s more fun than you think. Wait, given the demographic of the four-time Reader, you already know that.

Warning! If you persist in learning the realities reflected the three relationships of the Doctrine, you will begin to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your everyday world. The thing of it is, there’s a real good chance that you won’t be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Tomorrow: ‘the Everything Rule’

* the first is chance, a good friend’s recommendation and/or boredom; the second is confirmation to settle the ‘no, fricken way!’ and the last: ‘huh, this person reminds me of something on that site…’

** not that the Wakefield Doctrine cares about self-reported characteristics…way unnecessary

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 30, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created by Lizzi R. one breezy April day in a thatched-roof cottage in the village of Parsley-and-Sage; in the county of Cottage-Cheese, UK, few were surprised at how quickly it grew.

Following is the Doctrine’s Grat List:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Zombie Christmas Project: Chapter Sith (things are not looking well for our sacrificial fir).

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) agent rejection letter that was awfully well-written. on a whim, I sent a query letter for ‘Almira’ to an agent. (In part because his name was Farley. lol)

Dear Clark –

Many thanks for writing. You have an interesting story to tell and there’s a lot to like about your approach. But in the end I’m afraid I didn’t come away quite fully convinced this was something I think I’d be able to represent successfully. I’m sorry not to be more enthusiastic but thanks nonetheless for giving me a chance to review it and best of luck in finding it the right home.

Best,
Farley

Chase Literary Agency

7) Hypograt: Don’t get us wrong! The above is not anywhere near as fun to have read as: ‘Send full manuscript’. That being said, gratistically-speaking it does remind us of that famous story of the explorers and the tribe.

8) something, something

9) Una’s garden: