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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 3, 2021 By

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

Quick follow-up on the reference, in yesterday’s post, to the use of the Wakefield Doctrine in self-improvementhood.

The core idea to the Doctrine is personal reality. Specifically one of three: the reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers). These comprise the context against which we develop strategies and learn how best to negotiate the path of our lives.

  • Outsiders(clarks) come to realize they’re apart from and otherwise, (apparently), different from those around them. Being a reality of the rational, (clarks, think) they set out to discover what it is that everyone else appears to know that bestows membership. clarks suspect they missed the class on belonging, (class on belonging motto: ‘Welcome to the Club’)
  • Predators(scotts) listen to their bodies, as the world doesn’t encourage reflection and self-examination. They’re not disappointed. The joy of the chase leaves no extra energy for introspection, and it, (introspection), providing no added speed or power, is set aside for the moment. (scotts act) They don’t feel exception for being the way they are, instinct focuses the mind quite sufficiently. Life is… well, it is. Anyway, there’s no time to waste, only time to chase and avoid being caught. (scottian world motto: ‘Hey! What’s that? Chase it!)
  • Herd Members(rogers) feel good. The world around them makes sense. Besides being full of things, (and people, principles and institutions), they accept their membership and take satisfaction that their Club Member jacket has neither a number nor an expiration date. rogers gladly accept the charge in life to discover the Right Way and instruct all others in what they’ve discovered. (rogerian worldview motto: ‘Life is Good’)

So, what does this have to do with self-improvoisity?

Hold on… one more concept (or two)

So, for the Wakefield Doctrine, personality type is simply a label for the style, set of strategies, a person has learned and practiced in on of the three personal realties. In a sense, each of us have the best and most effective of personality types, given the reality in which we exist.

The thing is, we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. (We grow up in one and only one of the three personal realities.)

…time’s up for this Wednesday. Check back in a couple of days.

Tomorrow is Six Sentence Story day and we get to read the latest installment from ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

 

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Toosday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 2, 2021 By

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

We have mentioned the fact that, as a tool for self-improving oneself, the Wakefield Doctrine is without peer, have we not?

(Hey! You ever wonder why it is we say, ‘the Constant Reader of the Wakefield Doctrine is either a clark or a scott (or roger) with a significant secondary clarklike aspect? Of course you have. Wait! Come back! Don’t click away… we’re just kidding. Everyone is invited to read and take what they can from this place of ours.)

Ok, already, enough with the asides! So, before I try to write an effective introduction to today’s reprint, there’s a youtube channel you’re gonna love. (As an aside, this  guy is a master of the segue to commercial. While we get that sponsors are how folks can afford to spend the time creating content, most are ham-handed, “Now a totally Dissonant Word from Someone You won’t be Clicking On, commercials. HAI is so not like that. This channel is made for clarks (and those with secondary clarklike aspects).

Do us a solid, if, after watching a few vids, you’re inspired to leave a comment, tell ’em the Wakefield Doctrine sent ya. Click: Half as Interesting

ok…

Shall we continue on to today’s Reprint? From August 18, 2014

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

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Lizzi has this thing she does, from time to time, where she writes provocative and engaging story that seems to be about herself, only to inform the Reader, at the very end, that ‘this is fiction’.

Today’s Post is sort of like that…except in reverse (or maybe, converse). The story that follows is real enough, however the ‘point’, or ‘lesson’ or even ‘moral’ of the story may not be immediately apparent.  And,

Yesterday I had a property that had a heating air-conditioning system emergency. An air-handler in the attic malfunctioned and water (condensate from the ac) was leaking through the ceiling into the bedroom below. I tried, without success, to get the plumbing and heating company to answer my calls to make a weekend service call, unfortunately they were nowhere to be found.  Staring at the water dripping off the hardwired smoke detector in the bedroom ceiling I realized that I had to do something. I decided to turn off the power in the house, as  house was on a well,  at least I could prevent any additional water from adding to the problem. The air-handler sat in a metal pan, in order to contain any condensate created when the system was in cooling mode. The pan was overflowing, the source of the water dripping through the bedroom ceiling. My plan was simply to empty the pan. Access to the attic was by a pull-down staircase. I took a plastic drinking cup and a 5 gallon bucket, climbed the stairs, flashlight in hand, and starting bailing out the water. There was a lot of water. At least 5 trips down the stairs, with a full bucket. Now, the thing about pulldown staircases is that they have normal shaped steps from the bottom to about 3/4s of the way up, where they, (the steps), become more like ledges. You can put your full weight on them, you just can’t stand on them the way you normally do with stairs.

The operation took about 45 minutes. It was successful, provided the definition success was, ‘less water available to leak through the ceiling now than there was before I started’. I left the property and returned to my office. Getting out of my car at the office I felt my legs do that ‘tremor’ thing, you know, over-exertion total muscle exhaustion. (Like when you were a kid and someone dared you to do 50 knee bends as fast as you could?).  Mind you this was the first time, (that morning), I felt that way. Each of my trips up and down the attic ladder, flashlight providing the illumination, with 5 gal bucket in one hand, were anything but tremory. In fact, each step I took was very deliberate as I did not underestimate the potential of slipping and falling out of the attic of an empty house.

But as I walked across the parking lot,  I felt like I had run 8 miles. And I laughed (I am, after all, a clark). I laughed because I could see how effectively I limit myself.

Like most Readers, I try to stay healthy. I understand that exercise is a necessary component to a healthy life style and I make periodic efforts, in good faith and with sincere intentions to stay in shape. Nothing unusual there. (And) when I am in exercise mode, I will work hard, striving ‘to feel the burn’, whether it requires 30 minutes on a stationery bike or, of late, my two mile ‘run’, I am trying my best to exercise my muscles. Yet, prior to yesterday, I can’t remember the last time I felt that my legs were made of rubber. Tired out, winded, tight feeling in back of legs, sure, but rubbery? no. Clearly I have been nowhere near the limits of my physical strength/condition/capacity in a long, long time. And I was not aware of it.

That was the insight that made yesterday’s work adventure worthwhile.  What we tell ourselves, about ourselves is, by and large, intended to maintain the status quo. The insidious-ness of this is that not only can I have ‘good intentions’…. (stay healthy-exercise! learn more-study! find romance-take showers!)  but I can ‘take action’… (run 2 miles- boy that was tough! get a B- hey my studying paid off! find true love-I can get used to a person who uses double negatives!).  All without knowing my true capability/capacity/talent really.  Because of the tales we tell ourselves.

 

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Re-Print Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 18, 2021 By

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

Being Monday, we thought, ‘Lets pick a post at random* see what that gets us.

What that gets us is a pretty comprehensive explanation of the Doctrine, in general, and, while I didn’t take the time to actually read the post before copy-swiping it, rogers, in particular. What say I paste it and see what it is the god of random would have us read?

(New Reader alert. The primary value and biggest challenge for those of us who would use this here Doctrine here? To understand and appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us and to translate between our predominant worldview, (‘personality type’), and the ‘other two’, respectively. It’s the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine, as an additional perspective, to provide a tool for our understanding how the the people we encounter today are experiencing the world of our day.)

From July 29, 2014:

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

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Seeing as, this Summer, we have not a few Readers who are quite conversant, (some even approaching fluent), in the Wakefield Doctrine, I thought I would try a series of posts that focused on real life situations.

New Readers? the Wakefield Doctrine is simply a perspective on life that offers (an) insight that is unique, useful and fun. The Wakefield Doctrine is not an ‘Answer’,  rather it is a ‘what if’ question applied to …well, applied to everything!  Learn to use this Wakefield Doctrine and you should never again hear yourself say, “My god! I don’t believe they just said that! I really thought I knew them better!” All that is required is a confident sense of curiosity and a healthy imagination. Everything else will follow, provided you are able to accept that:

  • there are three worldviews (personal realities) that everyone lives their lives in, regardless of age, gender, culture or patience
  • these three are: the world of the Outsider(clarks), the reality of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers)
  • we are all born with the potential to live in one of these three, which we do by age 5 or so, however, we never lose the capacity to see the world as do ‘the other two’
  • through reading the Posts and the Pages (of this blog), you learn the characteristics associated with each of the three personality types sufficiently to recognize them in the people around you
  • by observing the behavior of the people in your life you will be able to infer how they ‘relate themselves to the world around them’

that’s all you need to get started. (Tip: when trying to decide which of the three personality types a person is, immediately throw out the ‘yeah, no frickin way‘ worldview, that will leave you with only two to compare and contrast.) Read the Posts and, especially, the Comments, as these are from people like yourself who stumbled across this blog and didn’t have the good sense to keep moving on. (Encouragement: If you are still reading this, your chances of ‘getting’ the Wakefield Doctrine have risen from 0 to 47%.  and…and! if you read three more Posts and come back here and still find the Doctrine intriguing, then we want to hear from you, so write us a Comment. Your initial impressions are important to us, they would be appreciated.)

Case Study #1

rogers.

(with) rogers, we can often see what, for the partial purpose of being confusing, is a certain… quality that we call their Expression.*  (This) Expression is the objective edifice of a roger’s personality, it is their ‘purpose’ to/within the Herd. Often it manifests as (an) occupation or profession, (scientist, accountant, prosecuting attorney or judge).  It can also be an avocation or hobby (i.e. cabinet making, stamp collecting, genealogy or ship-in-bottle builder). It, (this Expression), can even be something as fundamental as: keeping house, maintaining a family life or staying in touch with relatives (near or far). a roger, as a Rule (ha, ha), does not consciously set out to find and develop an Expression. (This is not to say that there is not a predisposition to a certain type of activity that becomes their Expression, it’s just that they are not thinking, “Now… what do I want for my Expression”). Having said that, there are certain values, qualities, characteristics necessary in this Expression.  For example,  a roger’s Expression must be perceived both as a value to others (in the Herd) and a manifestation of the virtue of disciplined effort (on the part of an individual). One way of confirming (a roger’s) Expression is the ‘everyone knows’ test.  ‘Walter is such a talented woodworker, everyone knows how good he is’ or ‘Martha is so focused on family, anyone who meets her senses that right away’

In Case Study#1 we have a roger with an Expression of musical talent, technical musical skills, music. This means, very simply, that had you the capability of visiting this roger at any time throughout his life, you would have seen a guitar somewhere in the scene. The circumstances (and the guitar) might be different at various times, but it would always be there.
I need to introduce another concept at this point:  context.
‘Context’ is (a) reason, (it is) the need, the opportunity that roger would have in his life, (at any given point in time), to manifest his Expression. This/these contexts  might consist of being a member of a band, or having a recital as part of a class in a community college, it might simply be helping a friend, (filling in for an absent musician). The key to these contexts is that there is a need, for roger to play. And, this need, is from those around him, not simply a subjective demand to play, (which, in turn,  is a different aspect of the Expression) . ( If you are now thinking, ‘ …you’re talking about the Herd, right? the people around him who are identified as Herd Members?’   very astute! good!)

…what happens when there cease to be contexts?

(to be cont’d)

(hey, I wrote most of the above yesterday. When I got up this morning, I thought… ‘jeeze! clark you better spice that Post up! Everbody be snoozing by paragraph 2!! ‘cept for zoe and that’s only cause she a professional…. any good teacher  or presenter…. or speaker-in-front-of-more-than-one-person-er  knows that!!

so here are three jokes, please insert them in the place of your choice in today’s post

    • Julius Caesar walks into a bar. “I’ll have a martinus,” he says. The Bartender gives him a puzzled look and asks, “Don’t you mean a ‘martini’?”
”  Look,” Caesar retorts, “If I wanted a double, I’d have asked for it!”
    • So Jesus walks into a bar and says, “I’ll just have a glass of water.”
    • A blonde(clark), a brunette(roger) and a redhead(scott) were stuck on an island for many, many years until one day they found a magic lamp.
      They rubbed it hard and out popped a genie. He said that he could only give three wishes so since there were three girls, each would get one wish. The redheaded scottian female went first. “I hate it here. It is too hot and boring. I want to go home!” “Okay,” replied the genie. And off she went. Then the brunette rogerian woman went. “I miss my family, my friends and relatives. I want to go home, too!!” And off she went. The blonde clark started crying and said, “I wish my friends were back here!”

* to be confused with a ‘rogerian expression’, which is a form of rhetorical aggressiveness (usually spoken, but possible as the written word) that is characteristic of this worldview.

 

* the ‘random’ comes from scrolling through all posts without looking and clicking, ‘Stop, enough already’.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 16, 2021 By

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This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week we join other writers and bloggers of like-mind and describe our lives/worlds/reality/and-people-places-and-things that have elicited a reaction/response of gratitude. (Since the previous week’s TToT*)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) The ‘new yard’ that is the product of all the tree work we had done. It’s hard to convey how much Una likes it. She plain enjoys sitting in the yard, relishing the responsibility for her newly manifested domain.

4) the Six Sentence Story a place to read (and practice the brief art of flash fiction).

5) the Wakefield Doctrine. Because, in the personal reality of a clark, (or a scott (or) a roger with a sufficiently pronounced, (aka annoying), secondary clarklike aspect), it helps to have a framework. Or, a better way to put it: picture an old calligraphic map, torn-linen edges, almost too-age blurry and significant-looking, with little, tiny, map legends and keys reading, ‘Relatively Safe Here‘, ‘Don’t Dawdle‘ and ‘Remember not to answer anyone who asks, what right to you have to pass through here‘.

6) serial story writing… it’s kinda like daydreaming in public. Go read, (and then subscribe for upcoming chapters), our two semi-interconnected serials, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ My weak, bordering-on-appendix-level-relevance, tertiary rogerian aspect** wants me to type: And then tell us what you like about these stories…

But, I’m not going to.

7) ‘Oh, deep in our heart we do believe, We shall undermine someday.‘ (Apologies to fans of traditional gospel… we’ll add a music vid, by way of amends)

8) something, something

9) check back for update on the project

10) Secret Rule 1.3 Simply put: if you get anywhere in the vicinity of Grat Item(s) 7 and 8, the feeling that engenders totally qualifies for this, Number 10!

 

* and, fortunately for some of us, more rorschachian-inclined, post-writers, the shackles of Chronos are laying in the dusty road behind us, along with: a college degree with immediate economic utility, the offer of an apprenticeship in a practical trade and the un-requited love of countless real and imaginary figures in a to-remain-unpublished autobiography.

** anyone not here for the very first time: you have the tools, use ’em.

music video (Doesn’t happen that often, two songs with same title)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 11, 2021 By

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Quick, little reprint this ante meridiem*. From back in 2012.

I’ll probably come up with something contemporary to add to this post in a bit, but first, lets cut ‘n paste this bad boy.

* damn! talk about yer learn something new everyday! (the spelling of the word). But that’s not important right now. We were discussing, on this weekend’s call-in, the endless curiosity of a clark. And, at this moment, in the context of this chance observation, (i.e. our checking the definition of ante meridiem)… we realize we did not have the correct spelling. Thanks to them fine folks at Wikipedia, we not only have the spelling correct but have an enhanced understanding of the term: ‘a.m.’ .

… so, do I belong now? Am I a part of?   (lol goes out to Denise and Cynthia. ask them what the ‘ol’ is all about.)

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

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.[1][2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!!  dude, yo  when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past.  Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

  • rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)
  •  most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!
  • the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**
  • in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers  love repeating patterns
  • the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while
  • hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:
  • …Ken Burns…
This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott!  As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”
I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***
Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!
** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)
*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of  fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of  all non-herd members

 

 

 

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