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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 3, 2022 By

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

screenshot from one of our favorite live webcam youtube sites…Geirangerfjord Cruise Port

 

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

Sometimes, on occasion, Readers demand an explanation of our weekly endeavor, “Hey! Doctrine, we’ve met you in person(s) and you strike us as being a touch on the hypo-emotive side, ya know? Whatcha doin contributing to what, in the common parlance, is known as a gratitude blog. Can you tell us that?”

The TToT’s origin story is fairly interesting. And, given how synchronicity in the virtual world is a common as ‘cloudy, chance of afternoon showers’ in the ‘real’ world, we were pleasantly-unsurprised to come across recently posted photos on the facebook from one of the original hostinae, Christine. Anyway. So, back in 1988 or ’89, Lizzi, the Foundress of the TToT, took to the notion of hosting a bloghop in her own, non-hopping blog, ‘Considerings‘. And, talk about ‘walking the walk’!! Anyway, to truncate the narrative, being the Wakefield Doctrine predominant worldview personality type she was, she decided that one co-host wasn’t really to her liking, so she picked ten bloggers to invite to join her.

Yep, she asked us. Worse, we accepted. ‘Sure! What harm can we do to the efforts of a bunch of well-intentioned, skilled writers from all over the werld?’  lol That was, something like forty-three years ago. Since then, each weekend, there have been TToT posts that share the people, places and things that touch the contributor’s lives and consciousness. And, of course, those from the Wakefield Doctrine.

This week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis (in photo above, Phyllis out-of-frame, to dog-left)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) non-winter (aka Summertime)

5) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’‘ and ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro‘

6) Men’s Singles Lawn Curling (before)

7) Six Sentence Story bloghop.

8) something, something

9) Solo Lawn Curling  (after)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules… if your bloghop doesn’t have one, you really need to reassess management priorities, you know what we’re sayin’?)

 

 

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 27, 2022 By

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

“…unfortunately this was taken on a Friday and so will not be useful for today’s Post”

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. If employed, one is benefitted in two distinct ways: a) by seeing the situation (person/place/thing) differently (as is the case with most alternate perspectives, the difference can be great or it can be small) and, perhaps add to one’s experience and 2) to be reminded that there is more than one perspective on life, which in and of itself is empowering by the implied acknowledgement that our personal realities and the personal realities of others are congruent. Except where they are not.

One way to think of the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is: to aid in the ongoing process of self-improving ourselfs by appreciating the world as the other person is experiencing it. (And, in doing so, improve our acceptance and appreciation of how we relate ourselves to the world around us.)

Here’s a post (title: Capital Letter-less Monday, its more fun you might think. ?%#? from June 2013)

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

Audience

hey, you know how we say that one of the primary values of the Wakefield Doctrine lies in it providing a certain perspective on behavior that, when applied to our own lives, proves to be a unique  tool for self-development?

well, we do.
the important thing is this: in order to effectively use the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improvement and/or self-development it’s necessary to understand the nature of the three worldviews.

new readers! dig this: we are all born with the innate capacity to experience the world in one of three ways, or worldviews (aka personal realities): the world/life as an Outsider (clarks), living and developing as one must to survive and flourish in the reality of the Predator (scotts) and experiencing the world as a member of a Herd (rogers). you with us? fine. we all ‘pick’ a worldview and grow up and develop our personalities in response to the particular challenges and advantages found in these realities. the thing is, we retain the potential to see the world as ‘the other two’ do. for example, I’m a clark, predominant worldview is that of the Outsider which means the world around me today is such that I do not fit in, I see things in a way that results in my demonstrating a certain creativity, I spent a lot of  time being self-effacing, (often amounting to self-destructiveness), I have an insatiable appetite to learn new information and I am simultaneously sentimental and cold. that is because that is the nature of the world I wake up to.  I also have a secondary (and a tertiary) aspect. my secondary is that of a scott and my 3rd is rogerian. (btw these secondary and tertiary aspects? thats why people sometimes will say, ‘hey I must be some kind of new personality type! like a clarkroger, because most of the time I feel like I’ll never fit in and then sometimes I can be real real stubborn and obstinate’  that’s your secondary showing through.

so…learn the characteristics of the three worldviews. observe your fellow lifeforms. infer the reality that they appear to be responding and reacting to and once you are able to correctly infer the worldview of the other person, you will know more about them than they know about themselves.
so…learn the characteristics of the three worldviews. observe yourself. first eliminate the obviously not fitting worldview, then hold the other two worldviews up and see which one makes the world make (more) sense… that is your predominant worldview. that is what will be useful to you, if you have an interest in: understanding the behavior of the people in our lives, taking better advantage of the people in our lives, knowing more about the inner thoughts and feelings of the people in our lives and , for some of you… learning ways to improve your own life.

we used to do an internet radio show and one of the things I always tried to say to the listener about the Doctrine was, “the Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’.  note that I did not say, ‘…how you relate to the world’… I said, ‘ how you relate yourself to the world around you’”.  that distinction is of critical importance in making the Doctrine a useful and effective tool.

… so we will stop here for today.

… one thing!  to clarify my point, at the beginning of today’s Post, the key to using the Doctrine is learning and understanding the nature, characteristics and such of the three worldviews. in fact, it was DownSpring Cyndi who proffered the term ‘fluency’ as a way to describe our efforts to learn about the three worldviews, i.e. “hey, I am becoming more fluent in the scottian worldview… FUCK!”  or “my fluency in the rogerian reality allows me to approximate the ‘projectile disinterest’ that we see so many of the ‘natives’ employ to such devastating effect”

(to be continued)

Friend of the Doctrine, Melanie has let us know that, due to shifting priorities, she would have her other blog  ‘Steer Career Success‘  listed on our blogroll… it’s a good and useful and fun site, it has to do with jobs and careers and such and totally ties in with where we are taking this conversation about the use of the Wakefield Doctrine in the workplace… so stop over at her blog and  say ‘hidy’

speaking of sent ya… if you are still reading this Post, I totally want to engage you in …. conversation!   we are having the first weekly Wakefield Doctrine Video Brunch,  this coming weekend. since you are clearly interested in the Doctrine, I totally care about making the Vid Brunch convenient to your time zone… so leave us a Comment  and let me know your ‘zone  …am currently thinking to start in the early am this coming Sunday  (’cause Friend of the Doctrine Michelle is a nicely symmetrical 12 hours ahead of us. but there is still room to play with the exact starting hour)

 

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 13, 2022 By

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

Today’s reprint is pretty straight-forward (at least so it seemed, when I scanned it just now) and action oriented. So let’s get right do to it.

October 23, 2020

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

At last! Friday! With all its pressure to make the cost of the weekdays feel worthwhile, and most of its promise to allow sufficient enjoyment to believe we are not all running on invisible hamster wheels.

New Readers (and not-so-new-Readers) Here is our challenge for the weekend:

  • Find the clarks in your world and let them know that you know (but won’t tell anyone)
  • Spot the scotts (there will be one among your immediate social circle and at least one just out there) Make them laugh at something/anything*
  • Identify the rogers (to whoever said, ‘Like that’s gonna be tough, they make up 2/3s of the population‘,  we retort: “Hold on, we’re not done with the assignment.”) Get within conversational range and compliment them, then leave before he/she can reciprocate.

Any questions?

Quick Guide to the three worldviews:

  1. clarks tend to dress in a way that doesn’t look quite right, but not in a negative way. There is always something creative to the fashion/dress of a clark (in our North American culture, females enjoy a range of sartorial expression not normally enjoyed by their clarklike brethren, so why wouldn’t one make of the most of the metal and lace palette and employ a palette of color visible only to lifeforms more comfortable in the fluorescent end of the spectrum). When you spot a clark, make no sudden moves or otherwise draw attention to them, or they’ll blend into the woodwork faster than a chameleon on amphetamines in a pile of saw dust. Best way to let them know you know: listen for the jokes they mutter, the two of you will be the only ones laughing.
  2. scotts ….well, scotts they’re there, thing is, its best (for the purposes of this assignment) that you spot them first**. In fact, the challenge in this….err challenge is to spot the scott before they spot you… good luck.
  3. rogers… ok, don’t have to look too hard… well-dressed, (by local conventional standards), friendly and at the center of a moving spiral of people (if there are enough people) Warning: if you are a clark, do not attempt the challenge if your target Roger is not alone or has less than four people around them….
[Ed. Note: Yes, there is a correlation between the predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine and the three main characters in the Wizard of Oz. I mean, it’s as if the idea of a clark, scott and roger were, like, some kind of universal principles! lol If you’re trying to decide how to associate the three, remember, the Doctrine is about how a person relates themselves to the world around them.]

* extra points for it being a scottian female

** there is zero question that, once you’ve entered into their environment, (social, physical, sexual…pretty much all the ‘als’ other than spiritual, lol), they will notice you and interact with you if, for no other reason than to establish ranking***

*** total, defining dynamic in the world of the Predator

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Don’t forget! The Doctrine is not an Answer… it’s a perspective.. use it wisely

It’s all about how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘The devil, you say?/ The devil, you say’

June 7, 2022 By

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

Speaking of the the Everything Rule… (well, we were yesterday).

So here are three movie actors playing the role of Satan/the Devil/Lucifer

Can you see how the predominant worldview of the actors results in a different depiction of this rather culturally-durable figure?

Anticipatory Response: the Everything Rule states: “Everyone does everything, at one time or another.” In terms of the perspective(s) of the Wakefield Doctrine it simply means, there is no such ‘thing’ as something that is of the exclusive domain of a clark (or) a scott (or) a roger. We all exist in what is safest to refer to as a common reality*. “That is something only a scott would do.” “Acting like that is so rogerian, too bad I’m a clark, I’d love to be that self-absorbent.”

To account for what is often very different ways, (among the three predominant worldviews), we employ the ‘manifest’. “Hey! I need a finish carpenter, do you know any rogers in that part of the business.”  “The award to the top real estate agent in the office, this year is a tie! It goes to rogerian male and scottian female!”

‘Yeah, but, you’re talking about actors playing parts. They are working from a script, thats not the real person being the devil. Blame the writer.’

We’ll let the New Readers find their way to reconciling the person and the role, at their own pace. The journey is the trip.

But! Lookee here! The role of the devil as (manifested) ‘delivered’ by a clarklike, scottian and rogerian actor.

We’ll let you sort ’em out.

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Predominant worldview 1 (Robert DeNiro as Lucifer)

Predominant worldview 2 (Al Pacino as Satan)

Predominant worldview 3 (Gabriel Burns as the Devil)

 

* while predicated on the concept of personal reality, and much as we’d like to see it, just because our reality is personal to us versus your’s to you, sorry, no secret ability to fly or be invisible or be emotion-proof.

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RePrint Monday Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 6, 2022 By

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

This particular Monday, let’s go look for two things: summertime and ‘the Everything Rule’

Couldn’t find an example of a post discussing summertime that we enjoyed all that much (most were focused on the end of summer.) We get that.

But! While we didn’t find a post that was the first mention of the Everything Rule, we did find a post that uses the terminology that preceded it!

lol

… no, now that I read this reprint (below), it’s clear that it doesn’t provide an example, explanation, illustration or music video that has all that much to do with the Everything Rule.

(In a touching example of faith in the Reader, here is the post from 2012 or something and beneath that, a slight discourse on ‘the Everything Rule’)

Before we get into this short Post with the  intriguing Title, a caveat to new Readers.
The Wakefield Doctrine is 2 parts art ( or as we say in the Wakefield part of the world, ‘ahht’)  and 1 part science. The ‘science part’ is pretty straight-forward:

we are all born with the capability of seeing the world/experiencing reality in three distinct and characteristic ways. At some point in early childhood we settle on one worldview and become what we call: clarks, scotts and rogers. Throughout our lives we experience the world with the biases, pre-conjecture and implications of this one view, we call this being a clark, acting like a scott and feeling like a roger. We all retain the capacity to see the world as the other two personality types do, if we try, if we have enough ‘flexible intelligence’, a strong enough clarklike side.  Everything in the Doctrinefollows from this. The Wakefield Doctrine, as it describes personality is gender and culture and age neutral. It is about the world that we perceive, not a list of genetic traits, parental training  that accounts for our behavior.  That is the science.

As to the art…

…the art (of the Doctrine) is found in the act of detecting small, characteristic expressions (physical, mental and emotional) of the other person.  …the art of the Doctrine is putting yourself in the other person’s shoes and trying to see the world as they see it.  …the art of the Doctrine is standing in their shoes, imagining you are a (clark or scott or a roger) and seeing if their behavior makes sense. …the art of the Doctrine is to do this with all three types in different situations until you see the world as the other person sees it.

…as to ‘the smile of the clark‘?  That is where the art creates the fun.  Ever see a person who smiles by compressing their lips and looks at you (either) through the corners of their eyes or ‘up through the top’ of their eyes?  Chances are you are looking at a clark.
…now look at that person’s posture.  Bad, is it?  Rounded shoulders,  slight hunch around the neck?,  a ‘looseness’ around the hips as if ready to make a run for it?  Chances are increasing that you are looking at a clark.
(now here is the fun part…the art part…) Look at the music video below at the bottom of this Post.  Albert Lee is the guy with the white/grey hair behind and to the right of Vince Gill. He is obviously having the time of his life, his smile… his whole face is smiling…
Albert is a clark.

(I know, I know)   “what the hell!! you said they are furtive and scared looking. You just told us clarks smile by compressing their lips and look like they are ready to run for it!! You said that, I have it in writing!!  

Thats the fun. The Wakefield Doctrine is like that.  There are guidelines and there are even rules, heck we even have Core Principles! But as a practitioner,

  • you will be the one to observe the other person
  • you will be the one to ‘try out’ the ways that the other person might be seeing the world
  • you will be the one who gets ‘a feeling’ they might be a clark or a scott or a roger
  • you will be the one who will tell another person, “hey look at this…does this seem rogerian or just a scott on an off day?”
  • …and you will be the only one to decide, knowing that you cannot break the Doctrine and that the other person will still be the clark or the scott or the roger that they are, whether you ‘get it right’ or not

Like we said….this is fun!

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So. The Everything Rule is intended to remind beginner Doctoriaires that the three predominant worldviews (‘personality types’) are about the character of the relationship between the person and the world. A person may relate themselves to the world they encounter this Monday morning as implied by the relationship of:

  1. Outsider(clark) who, and this is top of list for the solution to the question, ‘Which am I?’, considers the world, (and the people who make it up), as being ‘out there’ and therefore apart from, (by a gap small or stupendous), themselves.
  2. Predator(scott) don’t have time for a consideration of the character of their Monday morning. The world is an adventure, a challenge, satisfying and if you’re not doing something to/with/at someone or something, then you’re asleep or dead. Which, for them, is kinda the same thing.
  3. Herd Member(roger) the character of their relationship to the world around them is as the hub of the wheel. This exists in the realm of faith, does not require proof, evidence or verification. They are. The world is. How linked, (to them), everything is, is the point of life.

ok! enough for this morning.

 

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