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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 27, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Volunteer to be a co-host and we’ll send you something cool.

No, serially! We’re looking for writers and bloggers to sign up for having the inlink code sent each week. The benefit to you? A cool-looking array of thumbnails at the bottom of your TToT post! The benefit to us? More Readers bumping into the fun of the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

We apologize in advance if this post seems a bit unfinished, frayed on the edges. Trying to establish a routine of posting and linking…wait! Who said that? You’re absolutely correct! I should check and see if’n anyone has posted yet!

thx (lets file that under ‘something, something, Grat#8)

For the Wakefield Doctrine this week, we cite the following Grat Items:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) new co-hostinae: Denise from girlieontheedge.com and host of the Six Sentence Story bloghop. (Now a regular feature in the TToT)

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘Corn Pick of the Week ‘Daisy Daisy‘. ceayr

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop: Six Pick: ‘Three Best Friends‘ by Fandango

7) Fern Circle!! see?! We told ya there were fern circles in the woods!

8) something, something

9) Suggestion Box (New Feature! Half-Grat / possible Hypo-Grat. Let us know any ideas you might have that would make this bloghop more user-friendly, interesting and/or fun.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 24, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

(If we might continue?)

iii) The three predominant worldviews, aka personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine are:

clarks (Outsider)

scotts (Predator)

rogers (Herd Member)

So there you go.

What? Define each. Give list of characteristics?

What do you think this is, the Oscar/Meyer ABC schedule?

Here is all you need to complete the picture: ‘The Three Personality Types of the Wakefield Doctrine’: it comes down to relationships, as in, ‘How do I relate myself to the world around me and the people who make it up’. (Hint: We said ‘relate ourselves to’ not ‘relate to’.) Critical point. Like we said, the Doctrine is about (a) relationship.

Second necessary part (for your successful assembly of our little personality types.) Wait. It’s already been provided above. ‘Outsider’? ‘Predator’? ‘Herd Member’?

(ed. Don’t feel bad. A lot of clarks do that. You know, be so excited and in such a hurry we neglect to read every single line of instruction, rather than only the ones that give the impression of ‘getting closer to the Answer’.)

Hate to get rogerian sounding on y’all, but. “The Wakefield Doctrine is not an/the Answer. It is only a Suggestion”.

Suggestion massaged into a Proposition: Suppose everyone lives in a reality that is personal. Nothing weird or gigantic. No flying without planes or total self-acceptance in the here and now. Just personal, in a zone outwards from the mind, the body, the heart. In this zone, things are as the individual’s nature would have them be: a world where thought and reason combined to create belonging; action becomes love and acceptance conveys peace.

like that, ya know?

Fortunately for any New Readers two things happened once this blog saw the fluorescent/LED(ish) light of reality: a) the characteristics of the three personality types became self-perpetuating, to the extent that followers found ‘new’ examples of characteristics consistent with the Doctrine and 2) people found this thing useful, valuable and fun.

what more can we ask for?

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

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 14, 2024 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. Created by Lizzi R in 1973 it is the longest running Grat Blog in current publication. It has been voted “How many Hosts did they have when they started? Even with modern medicines, surely the supply must be dying off by now or, at very least, entering Life’s ‘Kindergarten II Phase’ Award of the Year.

We are now the host of this here bloghop here. And what follows is our list of the people, places and things that have saved our bacon (list-writing-istically-speaking) for yet another week.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pic of the Week: “Punch‘ by Yinglan

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop Doctrine Pick of the Week: ‘Initiation‘ by Margaret

6) *NEW* the Blogger edition of the TToT. >Click This<

7) Guest Post from the Earliest of Days T.A. Woods who we’re working with to see if’n we can’t get a TToT post through a alternate social media, Medium. Cross your fingers and stop over at her FB page (linked name) and say, ‘Hidy’ Welll! (Just returned from the Middle platform) I’ve always wondered what the minds behind Scrivener would do now that they’re successful with the most rogerian of writing tools. “Hello! Kitchen Parts and Products Department? I’l like to order a shipment of sinks for the fine folks working on fine-tuning Scrivener. How many? Why, all of them, of course.” lol (I kid Scrivener. We have a paid subscription and ever thang).

8) something, something

9) our co-hostinae Lisa and Kristi and Mimi

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 11, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

ok, ok, we did promise to discuss, ever-so briefly, the concept of serendipitous insights into the personal realities inherent in the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine.

this will not be on the Final Exam for one very good reason.

…

if you haven’t found this thing of ours fascinating, fun, weird-but-you-know-kinda-true. and possibly even useful, you are no longer reading…

(lol. jokes on them. well, technically, the joke (or the necessary premise of said bon mot), does not exit for them what clicked away five minutes ago*)

New Readers!! Following is our statement of role:

Your Narrator, being a clark with a significant secondary scottian and weak tertiary rogerian aspect, is the Curator of these pages. That is the extent of it. The reason for this seemingly clumsy exhibition of humility is to be found in the ‘Eureka Moment’ of the Wakefield Doctrine. (Hint: found in the ‘About’ or one of the other Pages (as opposed to Posts).

The Eureka Moment is Number One!! on our ‘List of greatest insights into another’s personal reality’.

(Quick Note: sure, the Doctrine will, in the course of describing the characteristics of the three personality types, enable anyone to see examples (of them) in their own worlds. But, beyond that. there have been occasions when we simply get lucky, spot a situation and correctly infer what a person of a different predominant worldview is experiencing as they are experiencing it. In other words, see further into their world than even the principles of the Doctrine ordinarily permit.)

anyway… in no particular order**

‘Referential Authority’ in the world of the Herd Member, the ultimate exertion of will on their surroundings always involves referring to a commonly-held belief system/coda example: HR person says to new hire: “This folder contains the SOP of our operation, we call it ‘the Bible'”¹ Any religious leader-wannabe will always speak of higher authorities on… shall we say, ‘as a personal friend, confidant’
‘Lashing-Out’ again in the world of the Herd Member, this is an extremely effective (and efficacious) strategy to exert dominance in a Herd. It (the identification of and definition of this mechanism/tactic), is also the greatest gift the Wakefield Doctrine makes available to clarks. (Hint: It eliminates the damage of the reflexive thought “What could I have done to make my rogerian friend say such a thing?”)

ok, out of time

Don’t forget!

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

*no, we wouldn’t be making fun of the creatively challenged. no way

** we did identify ourslefs as a clark, did we not? lol

you clarks out there know that no one, with the exception of the referenced HR person ever calls it that

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

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 9, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

What a treat we have for you Readers today!

Backstory: was talking Doctrine with Denise and roger (yeah, the Progenitor roger) on this weekend’s Saturday Night Call-in and we got on the topic of translation. Meaning, of course, translation between personal realities.

Essentially, if as a clark I am asked why did the roger does something*, without the Wakefield Doctrine, my description is unavoidable inaccurate, often fatally so. If, that is, our goal in life is to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

So, anyway, in the course of the conversation, we recalled a scene in the beginning of the movie, ‘Arrival’ that while subtle, is totally representative of a roger’s characteristic behavior.

New Readers!! This is kinda Doctrine 104 (Advanced Seminar). All of you who are scotts and rogers on your first visit? You’d be doing yourself a favor by heading over to This Page (on rogers). That’ll give you a total leg-up on today’s conversation. clarks who’re like, ‘what the hell is the Wakefield Doctrine… wait I think I see, level of new to this blog? We had you guys at ‘Doctrine 104 (Advanced Seminar)’ lol Yeah, no way you’re gonna go back and read the Basics and Principles.

Anyway…

The Everything Rule reminds us that even something as abstract as ‘aggression and drive to control’ is found in all three predominant worldviews. The word we use when considering an interest, social fad, an occupation, avocation, and ‘well-I-gotta-earn-a-living’ us Manifest, as in ‘how does this manifest in an Outsider (clark), Predator (scott) or Herd Member (roger)? To take it one step further (Advanced Seminar 194) we can infer a person’s predominant worldview by the quality of a given manifestation. Which in turns accounts for why some occupations tend to draw one personality type over the other. For example: elementary school teacher, cop/stripper and engineer/revivalist preacher.

So, here ya go. We have the vid set up to start a few seconds before the MC exhibits the behavior that identifies her as a roger. By all means play it from the beginning. The thing that is being demonstrated is how ‘control over the world around her’ is manifested in the rogerian worldview.

No, don’t ask us why. We have complete confidence in our Reader’s grasp of the principles of our little personality theory and, far be it from us to impugn the efficacy of the aforementioned insight into human behavior. But we’ll be all, ‘correct your own tests’ tomorrow on this little lesson. (No, don’t over-think the scene. Consider the question: How would you have responded to the student’s request that the main (whatever) be tuned into the News? We know what you’re thinking, clarks! lol

rogerian insight

* totally one of the direct benefits of alternate perspective made available by the Wakefield Doctrine. The first among such insights as they pertain to clarks and rogers is a new and thoroughly beneficial appreciation of the distinctly rogerian characteristic known as ‘lashing out’. If you’re a clark, new to this blog here, you would do well to write a comment/send email to the effect ‘ok, I’ll admit to being an Outsider (don’t tell anyone) but what’s the big deal with this ‘lashing out’ thing?’ New Readers want to know.