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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 23, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. Each week we compile a list of the people, places and things that have, in time recently passed or lodged in the distant memory like a shard of mirror stuck in the plaster in an old building. We list them in a list and link it to the TToT. You’re invited to read and enjoy or write, link and (also) enjoy.

For this week:

1) Una (Saturday Day morning tv)

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Una garden (Phase I Winter’s Rest Soon to be Disturbed)

5) the Zombie Christmas Project Phase Phive (Hey! Readers Clap your hands. Maybe thats all the zombie tree needs to to flourish)

6) Cottage project: Patio and walkway. Gathering bids. Hopefully this Summer

7) Six Sentence Story bloghop

8) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules) “…getting to, like, Grat #6 means if you don’t sabotage yourself, you’re home free for the week… almost. To dodge the hubris arrow, best to wait until this, Number 10 before citing it as a Grat. (PS… go back and do something with that blank at Number 9!)

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

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘thx, Mimi’

April 5, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

oh, man!

(this is either: ‘oh man this is the perfect post for the today’s topic?’ or it’s ‘oh man! this is the most on-point post for the topic today!’)

Today’s topic is (as often the case) suggested by/inferred from/insinuated/ and/or ‘jeez, it’s all there, save some typing for the Six Sentence Story tonight, cher’ from a comment by Mimi

(Ok, I’ll concede that point. But only because of my Reply to her Comment. (It would have been killer-insightful and almost, ‘Eureka!* I’ believe she’s got it!’)

~~Tuesday~~ Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “of occupations, worldviews and the Everything Rule’

April 12, 2017

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

Firefighters are rogers and cops are scotts

While there clearly are some occupations that congeal* with one personality type more than the others, there is nothing in the Wakefield Doctrine that says that clarks, scotts and rogers cannot excel at any and all, occupations, avocations, careers and…hobbies.

The example at the top of this post serves as the best illustration of how some occupations demand personal qualities found in one over the other predominant worldviews. This comparison provides a way to come to a greater understanding and appreciation of the nature of the reality that ‘the other two’** personality types confront each and every morning.

(A word about predominant worldview and personal reality. When the Doctrine refers to: personal reality and worldviews, we mean reality. Just because it’s personal, as in the woman next to you on the bus may not perceive how uncomfortable you are with her gum chewing or the fact that some people just creep you out, before they say or do anything, doesn’t mean it’s not real. It doesn’t mean that it’s in a lesser category of real, reality is real. To the person experiencing it. What makes me a clark (my predominant worldview) is not my inclinations and sub-conscious urges or predilections or tendencies. What make me a clark (or, better, what makes me recognizable as a clark) are the behaviors, learned responses, reactions and interpersonal strategies that I’ve acquired through a lifetime of living in the reality of the Outsider. These traits and reactions and style of interacting are the best I could come up with to deal with the world that I am in. I am not mistaken for a roger, if for no other reason than the fact that the way I relate myself to the world around my is totally inappropriate to living in the world of the Herd Member.)

dig?

About those cops and firefighters… so, one job involves driving cars real fast and if that’s not noisy enough there’s a siren on the roof and the highest expression of the profession is to chase down and capture people…. and tie them up and such. remind you of anyone?

the other job relies on routine and tradition, brotherhood and cooperation and preserving houses and buildings, and forests, if there are no houses on fire, to preserve what is… save people if necessary, the first thing is to put the fire out and not let it spread and destroy other buildings.

…. ok, personality type identification (PTI) aide: picture the firefighter, everyone is in the fire station, maintaining the equipment, polishing the brass and chrome until it shines, coiling hoses now, picture Joe Pesci and Jack Nicholson at the fire station. any problem with that? lol

The Everything Rule? ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another‘ which is to say clarks can be effective cops, scotts can be kindergarten teachers (in fact, a friend of the Doctrine happens to be just that), so there is no, ‘hey that’s a scottian job, you can’t do that!‘ The intent of the Everything Rule is to remind us that it is how a thing manifests in an individuals reality that counts.

* an approximation of what is called a rogerian expression. the maladaptive, semi-aggressive use of language; the result is a shocking and hilarious mis-use/pronunciation/application of a word

** all of us live our lives in one of the three worldviews (Outsider/Predator/Herd Member), what we refer to as our ‘personality type’ is nothing more than a remarkably comprehensive group of social adaptations and interpersonal strategies, as appropriate to the character of the reality we grow up in… we have one predominant worldview, we never lose the capacity to experience the world as do ‘the other two’ personality types. Hence the value in appreciating the other guys reality…provided you’re a clark, of course.

* subtle, but gratuitous link-drop to Nick… one reason: a) he’s got a serial running on his site that’s kinda addictioning** but it’s only on his site and not at the Six and 2) he’s one of the few Proprietors*** that I have facebook linkage and if’n you’re gonna try and game the internet, then why not treat yourself to some muy cool story while your’re there****

** not a ‘real’ word

*** a bunch of ‘people’ what hang out at a virtual-but-fun-place in the blogosphere

**** tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 13, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Despite Mondays, of late being days when we reprint old posts as jumping-off points, we’ve never been at a loss for inspiration or topic or ideas whenever we sit down at the keyboard of our solid-state Electrola. This a direct product due entirely to the nature and reason of the Wakefield Doctrine itself.

… lets state the statement that you, if a New Reader, should latch onto at your earliest convenience:

‘...the primary benefit of employing the perspective that is afforded by the Doctrine is to better appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up.’

Of course, this represents more the ‘Why’ as opposed to the ‘What’ of our little blog.

(ProTip: the coolest thing about the followers/readership of the Wakefield Doctrine is that they/it are, for the most part, clarks. No, we amend that statement! The cool thing is that we draw and attract scotts and rogers who are hobbled/burdened (lol… predominant worldview joke) with a significant clarklike secondary aspect.

No! Wait… the actual coolest thing is there are Readers of this blog, there is a readership that has endured since we started writing this thing.

Where is the time going?!@?

lets find something that turns up when we search ‘demographic’ and ‘readership’:

quick morning Post the Wakefield Doctrine (“…you do know that Thursday is the secret Friday of the Workweek, right?”)

March 6, 2014

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

Good discussion in the Comments section, of late. And the Official Doctrine answers are: yes, yes, no, well, if you mean with clothes on, no, are you out of your fuckin mind, yes, yes (and lastly), I’m sorry, you must be at the wrong blog, I think the one you want is over at http://www.ammobroads’nbeer.com … or maybe you need to stop at http://www.crocketingcondomssayingIloveyouwithtwopointysticks.com

alright, now that I have that out of my system. lets get down to the basics:

the demographic of Readers here is beginning to show a trend to the scottian, a surprising but welcome development. the core Readership remains (female) clarks (and possibly male clarks, but they choose to remain unidentified… for reasons still not understood.) I suspect I know why, of course, but I will refrain from saying what I think (well, duh!).

Well, if that’s the case, then clearly we need to address our scottian Readers!

To begin with, we all know that you have to decide for yourself which of the three worldviews is your predominant, in other words are you a scott or a roger or a clark. This Rule was originally intended to prevent Readers from getting all….rogerian on new Readers, like “well, look at the new clarklike females! woo hoo hey girl you want to come over and watch some Ken Burns documentaries sometime?” The Rule still obtains, it is not only for each of us to decide which personal reality we are in, but it is also part of the process of Learning the Doctrine. However….

…seeing how we’re talking about our scottian Readers, this Rule is not quite so necessary. lol not that you can’t make scotts do things, but ‘needing to be protected from rogers‘??!! not so much.

OK enough of the intro. Lets talk about scotts:

mercurial as our friends over at Free Miriam say: “…characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood”

natural leaders… this is an often overemphasized quality. the reason why scotts are considered good, natural leaders is because they are not given to ambiguity, they make a decision, done! people believe that ‘certainty equals correct choice’… god bless ’em.

scotts act, clarks think, rogers feel

confident (see: ‘natural leaders’) (there’s an old saying at the Doctrine: ‘scotts are often wrong, but they are never un-certain’)

(keeping the ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’ Rule in mind): scotts make excellent surgeons but not good physicians, cops but not firefighters, madams but not working girls, Teachers of the very young or the hormonally be-sotted (pre-school or high school, of course), a rough carpenter but not a finish carpenter, a Defense Attorney but not Prosecutor, a soldier but not a politician

the social identity of the scott is the pack, as a predator, scotts prefer to work alone but will, should circumstances dictate, gather with other scotts for a common (albeit) temporary purpose

you can spot the scott in any social gathering, they will ‘work the room’… the scott will challenge everyone ‘in the room’, literally (in the case of male scotts) pushing them on the shoulder or figuratively as often the case with scottian women

(at a party): the male scott will have a circle of people around him and he will be telling one funny joke after another, becoming more and more outrageous with each joke, the female scott will have a circle of male attendees, accreting like layers of coral… mostly rogers, of course they will have a clarklike female friend nearby. this friend will not be a part of her immediate dynamic, rather she (the female clark) is used to shed the rogers and re-assure the scott that there is something that she has not thought/said/done a thousand times before… she makes the rogers laugh, her clarklike friend makes her laugh…. (sort of a Le Trou Normand in a social sense of the word).

Ok that’s it for today

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 25, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Established in 1990 by a once-removed, second niece of Jack Lewis (ambiguation here).

In any event, each and every week a group of talented writers, gifted bloggers and persistent word-hurlers, (such as ourselfs), write and link to the TToT posts on the topic of gratitude, i.e gratitude observed, experienced, remembered or anticipated, they’re all engaging insights to a most human of experiences. And it’s a fun and, with a certain perspective, beneficial exercise.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) messed up weather (an immediate personal grat, a way-serious global hypograt)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop (like a ten cent box of Junior Mints at the movies that none of your friends saw you buy)

6) way multi-talented Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia, has a post on the facebook this morning that demonstrates how some of what you see in these pages often serves as an illustration of the degree of un-earned good fortune in the people we get to know.

7) hey! wanna hear something strange? (…we’ll wait while our host Dyanne gets her breath, if not stop laughing entirely ). ok

Look at that food material. For some reason, while in the early phase of recovering from my cold, I developed an appetite for paleo-personal-historic foodstuffs. The first (in photo) of our embracing, purely for recuperative purpose, a Breakfasts-that-Time-Forgot. Used to love them Big Breakfasts from McDonalds, back in the before-time. So imagine our surprise when the thought occurred to me, ‘You know what would be good this morning?’

There are a number of things we are proud of here at the Doctrine. Not the least of which, and arguably a essential quality for anyone hoping to get the most fun and benefit from our little personality theory, is the willingness to entertain silly ideas. That and the odd self-confidence to treat intuition as the Sixth Sense (or seven or whatever, depending on what you read). So we ate the breakfast of McMagog’s and the next thing you know, the thought of a frozen salisbury dinner is whispering like a slot machine on an old Twighlight Zone. Any way, feeling better. As certain friends might say, ‘If it works, don’t fix it.’

8) something. somethings

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (We used to offer a starter Grat if there was a Reader wanting to joining but was not comfortable coming up with Ten (Things of Thankful). If that’s your situation, let us know and we’ll totally fix you up. That is will post your Grat here at #9. Will as much attribution as you would like.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 4, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Tipping our hand on Grat #9 we’ll say, cohostinae Lisa has the talent and ability at the writerly thing to create TToT posts that while impressively minimalistic are both engaging and satisfying to read. While that level of skill is receding in ambition’s front-view mirror at a rate to blur the eyes and disturb one’s vision, we’ll give it a go this Weekend of Viral pharyngitis.*

Photo above? One of the few excellent things about winter: sea smoke. (Photo from our tv dialed into a live web cam at the ferry landing at Vineyard Haven on Martha’s Vineyard.) Only with the right conditions and cold do you get to see it, as it is pretty much limited to the Arctic or Antarctic.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) TToT host Dyanne

6) TToT co-hostinae Lisa

7) TToT co-hostinae (emerita) Kristi

8) TToT co-host Mimi

9) Being healthy enough to catch a cold bad enough to justify taking the day off but not so bad as to be a matter of concern (aka vacation clark-style! lol)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* aka a sore throat with an option on developing into a cold

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