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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 23, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrines’ contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Weekly posts published continuously since 1834 ( q.v. Grat(s) #5 and 6) This is an actual, genuine, beneficial exercise for anyone concerned with maintaining as healthy a perspective on the world around (us) and the people who make it up.

For this week, positive touch-points ( which are able to not only neutralize negative energies, but stimulate the gathering of positive energy in the course of a day) are as follows:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) new waterbed sleep-able now (after five days to raise the temp sufficiently) photo at top of post

5) the internet/virtual world in general specifically, this week, cited in Grat 6 (come on! how cool is it to find information of such variety and abundance any time of day!)

6) the Night the Stars Fell (who reading this is not thinking, ‘Man! What an excellent title for a story/novel or name of a blog!’) see article and cool site here.

7) Hypo-grat: seems that all the votes are in and the chances of Summer not being over are way diminishing. Not our favorite time of year by a long sight.

8) Mimi (as role model i.e. the most powerful sales technique ever developed. walk that walk, yo)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘testing…tephting…testing 1-banana-4 testing’

September 19, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

FOTD Nick, in a comment yesterday (well, technically today but his location is somewhere in the East so, timezone-wise, it’s really anyone’s guess what time he hit ‘Send’)

Without the obvious jokes (as referenced in the title) what say we tipe some Doctrine wisdom and a tune and see what comes out the other end.

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb

There are three personality types in the Wakefield Doctrine. clarks(Outsiders), scotts(Predators) and rogers(Herd Members). These ‘personality types’ are characteristic (and enduring) styles of relationship one has with the world around us and the people who make it up. We settle into one, (and only one), at a very early age and begin the life-long process of learning how best to negotiate with life.

There are no lists of traits, schedules of tropisms or grids of emotional-orientationing in the Wakefield Doctrine. There are not tests or trials, challenges or stand-outside-until-we-let-you-in with this belief system.

The Doctrine is not a belief system, it is not an Answer, it is not even a rational (and productive question). It is a perspective. Which, if one were inclined to think about that, one might say, ‘Ya can’t have enough perspectives available to you, can one?’

You can’t get the Wakefield Doctrine wrong. It can’t be broken.

It might be misused. But, then again, it is known: ‘No one has the authority to tell anyone else what their predominant worldview is. At least not with any ‘color of authority’. Which is not to say that we might enjoy speculating on the predominant worldviews of famous people in the interest in practicing the language.

The Wakefield Doctrine, by virtue of being a perspective, is best served by practice. Like the acquisition of fluency in any foreign language, the more you try to communicate using it, the better.

Warning: Once you attain the level of understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine sufficient to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, there is a very good chance you will no longer be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Simplest test for predominant worldview: How much is 2 plus 2?

So! Tell us what this blog looks like!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 17, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Entering it’s twenty-third year of continuous expression (online), (sixteenth in the analogue non-virtual world), the TToT manifests the best and worst of the potential of the blogosphere.

For us here at the Doctrine (Wakefield Doctrine blog motto: “Still?!?! How is that even possible? By your own admission (and insistence) there are only three personality types in the whole thing. And those, you so slyly insist are, in fact, characteristic relationships’. Don’t even get us started on that… ok, your passive aggressive persistence has worn us down again. Go ahead hit us with your list. You will anyway.”) It speaks for its-own-self. Following is our list

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) geographical location i.e. close enough to the ocean to drive there ‘just because’

5) writing and such

6) bloghops Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge

7) The Day of The Doctrine Hoodie (see Grat 9 below) This is for illustration purposes.

and, of course, hats (for your damn head))

(hat photo courtesy of FOTD Alex )

8) something, something

9) So. The thing was, Denise and Cynthia and roger were on the call-in last night and the topic came around, (as it so often does), to beauty, pride and fashion. Naturally thought of hats and doc-tees (as seen in one of last week’s posts) and the Wakefield Doctrine hoodie stepped up stage center. The question is: which should be the first in a line of Doctrine-inferred clothing?

Vote in the comments below.

Please.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 12, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Quiet, please. Quiet. A Tuesday post. (a modest reflection on the Doctrine, a view of the familiar through eyes of the jaded; eschewing the repetition, lets see what we can do this grey September morn.)

Nothing earth-shattering in terms of novel-insights, transcendent descriptions or instantly convincing explanations of the working (and workings) of everyone’s favorite personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on three characteristic relationships a person has with the world around them (and the people who make it up*). These are the relationship of (the):

clark (Outsider) as in, not a part of, something missing, don’t give yourself away or something bad might happen, the answer is information you missed very early on in life but if you can uncover it (without the people around you discovering your deficiency then there is a chance you can become a ‘real’ person
scott (Predator) lets go! screw the intellectual, subjective crap… when the last time the abstract imaginary world done anything for you? the minute you take your eyes off the world around you is the second you stumble and starve or trip and be over-come by the one coming up in your rearview
roger (Herd Member) sequence is everything how the hell can there be a Right Way if the sequence of action (or information (or process)) gets all jumbled-up You can’t Offer the Proper Life to anyone if it keeps changing, now can you?

* that ‘people who make it up‘ thing? heavy borrow from Castaneda and TA (no, scott! Transactional Analysis…known, back in grad school days simply as ta). What we take from both is that one way to view reality is as a story. We’re, all of us, silent Narrators of the story of Us and the World. And, despite the provocative ‘silent’ thing, we all, to varying degrees, are aware of the stories of those around us. And…and! As we hear the story from others, we are telling our own stories to everyone we encounter.

ok, so, sure, nothing radical or weird there. lol, hello clarks! don’t worry scotts and rogers with out-sized secondary clarklike aspects, it’s ok. nothing here that will usurp or upset the dominance of your predominant worldview, just a touch of ‘additional perspective’.

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Monday Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 11, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

(Will try our best to produce a little original content at the bottom of the following RePrint post.)

-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘of clarks and pre-emptive denigration’

May 4, 2015

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

(Note for New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is about nothing, if it’s not about understanding ‘the way that we relate ourselves to the world around us’.*)

This concept of pre-emptive denigration initially emerged from a conversation about how clarks tend to laugh too often. No! yeah, I did so say that! And I mean it, even though I suspect that making this statement will generate multiple parentheseses and feet notes…*

clarks laugh too often and, these events of laughter, are (often) the manifestation of preemptory denigration. We (clarks) laugh, (and self-denigrate), to take the pressure off ourselves. A clark will, at times, take on a responsibility that becomes the focus of attention of the people around them. It may be at the job or in class or perhaps even calling out a teacher who appears to be singling out our child in a negative fashion. No matter what the individual circumstance, there are times that clarks find themselves the center of attention. Somebody out there want to tell the Readers what the biggest fear of a clark is? Anyone? lol…. no, don’t worry! I won’t insist on a Comment. lol. Z? no, I know you know! lets give the others a chance. Christine? (well, yes… fear of failure is close, but we’re going for something a little more personal.) Kristi? ( being wrong? very good and quite close! but still something more… or less specific).

New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we live in one of three worldviews (personal realities). The personal reality that we grew up in is referred to as our predominant worldview and is sorta what others call personalty type. We have clarks (the Outsider), scotts (Predators!!!) and rogers (people who live in the world as a Member of the Herd). The really tricky part of this Doctrine is that these personal realities are real. They are not: interests or inclinations, (they aren’t) tropisms or sub-conscious drives, nor phobias or likes and dislikes. The world I woke up to this morning is the reality of the Outsider. And my way of relating myself to the world today is the most efficient and effective in terms of successfully navigating the course of my Monday, May 4th. Oh, yeah!! one other thing. You’re born with the potential of all three. You live in only one, but have the potential to have the behaviors and strategies of ‘the other two’ at times and to certain degrees (most often at times of duress).

ok! times up! the answer? ‘scrutiny’. What clarks fear the most (well, not quite, what they fear the most, but the way that clarks express to themselves, what they believe they fear the most), is commonly called scrutiny.

….where does the time go?! Quick wrap up:

clarks laugh too often in order to ‘hedge their own bet’…. (ex: I will write a book about the Wakefield Doctrine. No, don’t worry I won’t mention names or addresses… ha ha)

clarks do not do this hedging because they don’t take themselves seriously enough, but because they take themselves too seriously

clarks, being Outsiders, have way too little sense of acceptable risk of failure (as defined by themselves, but ascribed to everyone around them)

the pre-emptive denigration? ‘I’ll give my best shot, hope you’re not disappointed’ ‘I don’t know, yeah I can try’ ‘Look, if this doesn’t work out…’ ‘Before I start, maybe I could ask a few more questions, you know?’

You know, this book writing isn’t as easy as it seems. (ha ha)

* and this concept is so key and so easily misunderstood, that I’ll point out that what was just said was ‘the way that we relate ourselves to the world around us’ not ‘how we relate to the world’. This is a very common mis-something…but that one little word, ‘ourselves‘ totally makes all the difference in the world.

** I will make this my last footnote, someone out there is absolutely correct. I do sometimes underestimate my Readers and do not have to explain everything. Although, in my own defense I’ll say, “I’m still striving for the Perfect Post, which, by definition, will be directed at the New Reader. But you’re right, I need to stop with the extra explanations

Thanks and a shout-out to Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia for modeling a Doc-tee in the photo at the top of the post. A true multi-capable person, while it may still be in a remodel phase, totally worth your while to stop by at Art Funky Media.