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Re-Print Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 14, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Mad comments on this reprint. Not that they show. Kitchen sink principle can, with proper application of perspective, can be resisted. Heck, it can be overcome.

They, (past Comments), can be instructive and encouraging to re-read. Sorta like what people write in each other’s year books, ‘cept no one knows there’s no, “Next! Year!♥! Falls just a short Trip” (signature with the excess enthusiasm of youth here).

There is no bitterness or, even cynicism in that last description. There is only an attempt to self-remind myself that most of what makes a day seem difficult is energy. And, by energy, we mean more ‘spirit’ than an excess of ” Mg²⁺, ADP, inorganic phosphate Pi, H⁺, NH₃, ROS and heat“*. What slows down many of us is the clutter of life experience. ‘Oh, man! The day I have coming up!’ … ‘Sorry, just got too much on my plate this Monday‘ … ‘No fricken way!’

It isn’t, (ioo**), the amount of work we face. It isn’t even the resources we can muster to deal with and, ideally, succeed in completing the day. It is about the energy we have going into it. And…and! the ironic part? It isn’t even that…that last thing? About having enough energy? It is, as the Wakefield Doctrine encourages, ‘appreciating how we relate ourselfs to the world around us’.

Briefly, then on with the reprint.

The thing with getting older and not feeling like: a) there are not enough hours in the day or 2) you don’t have enough energy/strength/stamina, is that it all starts with our opinion/relationship with the world/reality/today. That thing the Doctrine maintains, ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up’? It’s talking about the present-singular. It is not talking about:

the ramifications of incomplete or insufficient performance of the tasks and duties that lie before us today
the guilt and/or un-realistic hopes for changing how people regard us
the elimination of future problems
the resolution of past, remembered events, not from a mere historical perspective, but an emotional perspective

None of those.

There is not enough energy, or time in the world, to assure a guaranteed successful complete. (Hokey smoke! Did you just read that?!! “…too assure a guaranteed….” ayiiee***)

In conclusion: the problem with not having, (or being certain we don’t have), enough energy to deal with the day ahead, is about how we define: ourselves, our world.

what? oh yeah!! the reprint!!

‘of flowers and friends, predators and insights’ the Wakefield Doctrine (a personality theory that you will enjoy learning)

June 5, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

DownSpring Cyndi is doing a hop over at her blog ‘Pictimilitude‘ The theme is ‘flowers’ and seeing how the topic of this (reprint) Post is the scottian worldview, it’s only natural for me to include a photo of a bloomin’* pine tree, innit?

In any event, this post on the scottian personality types is what the visitor Readers from North Cottage-cheese-on Rye, Cambrian Keep, Northlands UK were looking at yesterday. Now that I see that ‘in print’, it does prompt me to bring the focus on the issue of ‘secondary aspects’. There would appear to be a marked predominance of the scottian worldview as (the) secondary aspects for a lot of the clarks that be learning about this here personality theory here. I say this because, Friend of the Doctrine Melanie has a post today at ‘Scribbles and Smiles‘, which is an excellent illustration of how, with the inflection** of a (clark’s) secondary aspect… i.e. one who can be nearly un-noticeable (a lot of the time), becomes totally the center of attention. Considerer (although she has not yet determined for herself, the nature of her secondary aspect***) also demonstrates the delightful quality that is sometimes found in clarks, i.e. we may not insist on being the center attention, but there is no way we will be ignored (if we so choose).

So…here is our contribution

scotts, ‘prey drive’ and the Wakefield Doctrine (“Mr. Gorbachev, feed that dog!”)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. If you are looking for a self-improvement tool, or an easy-to-use system for self-development, then you have totally stumbled on to the right ‘place’!

The Wakefield Doctrine has a thing about looking at people, you know, how they act and stuff? …we guarantee that if you got the smarts to understand this, (and not everyone does), then you will know more about that other person than they know about themselves. Pretty frickin cool, no? But if you’re looking for one of those, “Six Ways to get any Boy to Like you” or “Satisfy the Woman in your dreams!! ” or ” How to get your Boss off your back!” self-improvement things then stop reading. Right now.
This Wakefield Doctrine thing is so not that kind of personality theory. (Not saying that you won’t be able to ‘satisfy the Woman in your Dreams’ or ‘get your Boyfriend a Job’), just that what we have here takes a little more….  flexible intelligence. So. Read already!

No, the Wakefield Doctrine is not like those other self-development books….the Wakefield Doctrine is fun and it is useful and it is fun…

Today we are going to talk about scotts! (Want to get a quick overview of the Doctrine?  go here and read….be sure to come back!)

scotts, scotts scotts! where to start?   … hell, it’s Thursday, lets take the easy way out just to get the ball rolling, so to speak.¹

Some bullets points relating to the nature and character of the scottian personality type:

scotts are totally emotional but in a way so very different from rogers, mercurial is the right word for the emotional characteristic of scotts

scott in a band? the ‘front man’ every time (don’t believe me? go look at the photo of the progenitors, click here  those three mugs were in a band together (yeah, I know!) and can you tell me who the front man was?…hell you know which one is the Progenitor scott without anyone telling you, don’t you?)

at a party scotts will introduce themselves (…..to everyone)

when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee

scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, …hardly ever both.

(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (go ahead….ask us why)

Seeing how the scottian population is of late growing here at the Doctrine, lets cater to their totally famous short attention-spans and use a video that shows us a scott doing what they do best! Watch and learn, binyons!

How scottian was David Caruso’s character? how clarklike was DeNiro’s character? and the cop that backed down to the scott?, not too rogerian ! Hell! he was the only one in the scene to have a hat on his damn head!
So lets review:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.    scotts are often wrong, but never uncertain.  scotts make good leaders, (at least when decisive action is required…when long-term objectives take precedence over short-term victory…not so much).     scotts are ‘the life of the party’… scotts are the best of joke tellers and are natural mimics.  scotts will feed on rogers and enjoy the challenge of clarks… scotts will give you the shirt off his back/ the use of her boyfriend but will not tolerate being ignored… they are un-selfish and short-sighted… ingenious and stupid… emotional and shallow… sexy and predatory… endearing and dangerous… get the picture?

* bloomin’ we trust DownSpring Considerer to vet our use of English idiom here…

** a rogerian expression

*** it is custom, here at the Doctrine to allow the individual to be the final authority on their predominant worldview as well as secondary and tertiary aspects

Hey! Winter is less than two weeks away. Spend each intervening day enjoying this non-winter time.

* quoted from some Gatorade web post, about the by-products of exercise ha ha

** ioo: In Our Opinion… stickin with the non-specific pronoun

*** Admittedly, I might be mistaking my interpretation for that of other people reading this and be totally off-base****

**** …nah, this is the Wakefield Doctrine If you’re still reading, you can identify

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 25, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

I almost feel ashamed of posting reprints. My rationale is neither novel nor particularly seductive. It is, however, sufficient to quiet whatever voice might be raised within. This, in no small part due to the fact that the readership of this blog has changed over the years.

This reprint is from 2015.

That is correct, six years ago.

Ayiiee.

In any event, I did not come here to praise the post writing of former years, for they are well received posts. I post at least one reprint each weekday so as to keep the old visible to those who are new to this blog. While some may stumble upon this odd corner of the blogosphere and, curious enough to read a article visible through a time-dusted plate glass window, few have the time to step through the door. (If you now think, in your personal special-effects lobe of your mind, that you hear the glassy-metallic sound of a small bell, as you open the door, welcome).

But these are modern times. And all things change. The time most of us have available to leaf through books of obscure origin and indeterminate tenure, like our capacity to run for the joy of motion or shout for the fun of it, is surely less than it was, six years ago.

That does not detract from the pleasure we might derive for stealing a moment for ourselfs. The world has a way of demanding time as payment and is always jealous of what little we may keep from its outstretched hand.

So, here is a little Doctrine moment.

-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the price of self-improvement is always almost more than we would pay’

May 25, 2015

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

I went to check the progress of renovation work being done to one of my properties today. I stop by at least once a week and, each time see a different set of contractors working on the house, this being a full roof to basement re-do. Today the dry wall/plaster crew was there. I saw the dog, (in the photo above), as I parked my car. Smiling, I got out of my car and waited for him to be a dog and bark and come over to me and make sure I belonged and/or had any right to come on his property.
I talked to him, (no matter what the breed, how big and ferocious they might be), I always start my conversations with, “Puppy dog! what a good-looking doggie you are!” [funny, isn’t it? a person’s sense of self-consciousness, when it comes to behavior that might be regarded as silly or inappropriate, is totally tied to how much that person enjoys whatever the reason is…for…acting silly. It didn’t matter if anyone was watching this real estate broker get out of his car and ignoring everything, have an out loud conversation with the approaching dog].
In any event, we met and he was a friendly dog. I started walking towards the house, (“come on! lets go see the house!”). He was a German Shepherd, probably 6 or 7 years of age, and I immediately noticed the slant of his hindquarters. (It’s my opinion that the most monstrous form of animal abuse I can think of is the breeding of dogs to match some person or breeder organization or show dog judges. The words of this conformance standards can be seen in some German Shepherds. My guard dog today being one them.)

My new friend and I walked towards the front door. As we stepped up onto the raised brick walk leading to the front door, he fell. He half-fell. His rear legs simply did not negotiate the step-up on to the walk.

I turned and looked at him. He looked at me with an expression that… represents what makes dogs so amazing. It was a look that said, ‘hey, sorry. legs gave out. Go on without me, I’ll be alright…just have to get back up.’

I felt sorrow for him. I didn’t ‘feel sorry for him‘, I felt sorrow.

What an awful feeling. My stomach fell, trying to pull my eyes into my throat.

I waited. He got up, without undue distress, clearly he was used to this happening. Once he was back on all fours, I actually said, in all sincerity and seriousness, “hey you should go back to your post, I’ll just go in myself’…. (yes, I said this out loud ), and he did just that.

What does this have to do with self-improvement and the Wakefield Doctrine?

You will read in these pages the statement, ‘…the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool to help you better understand the people in your life‘. This is a true statement. It is also a tool to better understand yourself. Which, when you think about it, can be a much more difficult task than:

understanding why your husband insists on using a sharpie to make outlines of the tools that he hangs in the shed or

your daughter who totally thinks that her expression of her individuality (purple hair, nose rings and combat boots) should not go against her in the upcoming job interview.

Using the Wakefield Doctrine allows me a slightly different perspective on myself. Which, given that I am a clark, is at once more difficult and more valuable. We all, (clarks, scotts and rogers), have blind spots.* And, if you’re after improving on the way you relate yourself to the world around you, then you had better find a way to see into that area. There might be treasures there.

The biggest blind spot for those of us who grew up and live in the personal reality of the Outsider, is emotion. Not that we don’t have or feel emotion. It’s just that we’re not always on the best of terms. (New Readers? If you read and learn the worldviews as well as some, people like zoe and Kristi and Val…. then, had you heard a person utter that last sentence, (“It’s just that we’re not always on the best of terms’), you would be totally thinking, ‘probable clark‘. lol

But I felt the raw emotion today. Just for a second. And I knew that it, (the emotion), was, as Castaneda might have said, ‘a thing of power’. It was an indication that there are parts of me that I do not know very well and that, if I am to self-improve myself, I will need to come to know better.

….but, it was so sad.

But hey, no one said it would be easy. In fact, most people will say, ‘if you want to change for the better, there is a price to pay and it’s always going to be almost more than you’re willing to pay.’

* I will not go into how insufficient the term ‘blindspot’ is in this context. It is. Maybe the next Post.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 18, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick, little re-print post to tide us over, as we work on this week’s Six Sentence Story (and continue the edit (‘re-‘, ‘re-‘,’re-‘ edit, that is) of ‘the Case of the Missing Starr’

Cynthia and Denise and I were touching on this very topic, this weekend past.

go figure

11 Web Pages Open -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘clarks and the seduction of creativity’

May 18, 2016 By clarkscottroger (Edit)

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

Funny, the process becomes the end in itself.

It’s a matter of fact that. of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, clarks are the creative ones. That being said, we have the ‘Everything Rule’ to remind us that, ‘everything happens to everyone, at one time or another’. So, when it comes to creativity as a quality (available) to people of the three worldviews, it’s not correct to say that scotts and rogers are not/cannot be creative, they can! It’s simply that how (a quality) such as ‘creativity’ manifests is where the difference lies. (And the cool thing is, when you consider the manner in which a thing/quality/characteristic exists for each, the character of that personal reality becomes all the more easily appreciated). Lets take creativity. (please!)

clarks will create (or perhaps it might be more accurate, if not more obscure to say), bring into existence that which has never existed before

rogers will create by taking that which exists (be they tiny tubes of paint, of pieces of wood or even notes on paper) and reconfigure, re-arrange into something unlike any previous arrangement of (tiny tubes of paint, of pieces of wood or even notes on paper)

scotts will take from themselves that which exists within everyone else and present it in a context that no one has, (or can recall), witnessing before

there! pretty simple, isn’t it?

clarks create, rogers innovate and scotts evoke

so the Post subtitle? why do I seem to cast creativity in the role of a temptation that might be better off fed? Because as clarks, we create because we’re Outsiders, we are able to create because we’re Outsiders and, yet, we cannot create within ourselfs the thing that might change our Outsider natures.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Hosted by Dyanne, created by Lizzi, encouraging all within arm(and finger)’s length of a keyboard and a connection to the internet to share those people, places, things, events and imaginings that have inspired the experience of feeling gratitude. Share ’em if ya got ’em.

1) Phyllis (in the backseat, taking pitchas)

2) Una (riding shotgun, head out the window, taking it all in)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (being a perspective on how one relates themselves to the world around them, its pretty much ever where)

4) the Six Sentence Story blog hop (in the virtual world, a coffeehouse tavern with cigarette-scarred and half-moon liquor stained tables, regulars who will see a story in the pulsing of the caterpillar’s cocoon, and a wait staff with heart’s stories waiting to be told)

5) serial stories (manifesting as ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ their storylines branching as enthusiastically as a pitcher of ice water on the side of a desert hill)

6) Cynthia (calling in on the Wakefield Doctrine call-in, bringing a view of the variety and potential of a life well-explored)

7) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing (on the over-sized, slightly concave screen in an off-the-beaten-path drive-in theatre, like a documentary, writ twenty feet high, viewers come and decide whether to: listen closely, meet some friends at the refreshment bunker or, after running up and down the corrugated rows of parking spaces, fall asleep in the back seat)

8) Una’s Garden before

9) Una’s Garden (almost) after

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) in partis: “[Y]ou’ve made it this far, you can see the finish line, go ahead and throw in the sink, you’re gonna be fine;” …op.sit. ibid. auf wiedersehen.

music

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- Advanced-followers post

March 15, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Why, ‘Advanced-followers post’ as the subtitle?

Because we want to reduce the incidence of cerebrospinal injury among causal viewers as we explain the photo at the top of this post.

It, (the photo), is of our tv* this morning.

It is an up-to-date viewer, so we have access, (through it), to the internet, in general, and YouTube, in particular. Cool, right?

So we’re into live web cam shows. There’s one we discovered that watches for the Woods Hole-Vinyard Haven ferry. The camera affords a view of Vinyard Haven harbor you can see it, (the ferry), come through the breakwater and dock. Another ‘local’ cam that we watch, with morning coffee, is in a boatyard and it scans the Westerly shoreline, mid-way up the Pawcatuck River, at a point where one can see the cemetery where Phyllis’s mother is buried.

I repeat, cool.

But that’s not what this post is about. Well, kinda, but not really.

It’s about practicing the Doctrine, or, since we’re talking to advanced students, its about developing our language skills. This is first and foremost about our ability to recognize how other people are relating themselves to the world around them. This is, of course, the first step to knowing the other person’s predominant worldview** because, otherwise, how can we know the nature of their personal reality?

There are a number of approaches to determining a person’s predominant worldview, ranging from the choice of words (in spoken communications), to the grace and power of their physical expression to their non-verbal communicationing.

So we found this live cam in Romania, outside the Pilvax Restaurant and Wine Bar. (Thats the screen shot above). And, with the time difference, we’re watching the cobblestone street at, like 1:20 pm or so. Live.

And, what makes this so amenable to our language lesson, we can see people walking up and down the cobblestone lane. There are shops and there is a restaurant. The view is close enough in, as you can see, to, not necessarily see their faces, but to definitely see their bodies and posture and… individual carriage***.

damn! This is fun.

Note: remember, the Wakefield Doctrine’s three types, the Outsider(clarks), the Predators(scotts) and the Herd Members(rogers) are predicated on how they relate themselves to the world around them. You cannot, for the moment, count on the other person introducing themselves as ‘err, hello, I’m a clark with a medium secondary scottian and minor tertiary rogerian aspect’. Someday, maybe if you’d tell people in your world about this thing and they tell… lol

We observe and we identify with the other person. We throw out the ‘no way type’ and then look for the distinctions between the remaining two. Are they slouching as they walk? Are they purposeful and alert to their surroundings. Are they wearing fun headgear(Doctrine Tip: male rogers and clarklike females)

So go find yourself some live webcams and practice you Wakefield Doctrine language skills.

Let us know.

* I know, no one calls it a tv anymore, other than those who remember the signal-enhancing qualities of aluminum foil

** New Readers? What people would, inaccurately, call personality types.

*** yeah, sometimes the odd words are the fun words