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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 9, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the TToT.

A weekly exercise in gratitude. Being one of the original co-hosts, charged with the task of writing a post every week by the Founderess, Lizzi, sometime it feels like learning Spanish and moving to la Mancha might not be a bad thing. There are weeks when my typing fingers look more at home on the errant knight in the excellent the excellent image/print at the top of this post.

We do, for this week however, continue our crusade, as clumsy as it might, at times be.

New Readers/participants? Pro Tip: the expression of gratitude, like many of the other manifestation of the Path (aka the way), is an end in itself. Using the TToT as an example, the act of citing grats, (as the written expression of that which incites a state of gratitude is referred to in these pages), necessitates embracing the power of perspective.

For this week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis (Stage left, towards where Una is smiling. She enjoys the morningtime. Una, not (necessarily), Phyllis)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine which owes it all to the crazy effective magic of perspective.

4) Sufficient physical health that makes possible, however by a thread, the Great Stump Dig 2021 (Photos in Grat 7 and Grat 8)

5) Serial Stories. ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop the place for flash fict…

7) Starting point today

8) Ending point today (10:53 am)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 which states, in part, ‘[h]aving gone to all the trouble to type out the numerals one through ten, the least you can do is put something that, if there is no photo, can be referenced to a photo, as in ‘coming soon’… ibid, op.cit. and et.al.’

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 4, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

It might be smart, (and certainly narrativistic*), to open this post with: ‘the original goal of this blog was to expose as many people as possible to the fun and (the) benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine’. That would be accurate at a certain level, but would be leaving out an awful lot about the experience of writing these posts**.

The reason for starting this blog is lost in the silent, disorienting applause of hitting ‘Publish’ on the first post.

(Certain friends might mark the start of the magic that has brought us to this, the 2378th(ish) Wakefield Doctrine post as ‘the conscious decision to begin typing’.)

Be that as it may, while the Wakefield Doctrine has not, as of yet, become a household name, there are new Readers who encounter us and, perhaps not writing in and asking ‘Hey! I saw some photos on this page. Where does a Reader have to go to get a hat for our own damn heads?’ Stick around for a while. As the old blogger once said, ‘As long as there are new Readers, a blog will never disappear’.

Enough with the metaphysics!

The thing of it is, the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will provide a person with one more perspective on the world around them and the people who make it up. If you nod and think, ‘ok, can’t be any harm in that and maybe this one will be the one’, we’ll say, ‘Welcome clark‘.

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A little insider info for the New Reader: doesn’t matter what you or anyone else thinks, if you can see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world today we can promise two things: a) you’re a clark or you’re a scott or roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect*** and 2) there’s a real good chance you won’t be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world now. But stick around and we promise you won’t stay angry.

Quick bullet point of the three ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine:

clarks(the Outsider) if you wake up thinking about the world ‘out there’ awaiting you, you’re probably a clark. You don’t mind being different from everyone you know, as long as it doesn’t become a topic of someone else’s conversation. You know you’re weird, but have friends that don’t seem to mind. And, besides, today might be the day you find that missing piece of knowledge that will tell you how to be a real person.
scotts(the Predator) you don’t wake up the way other people you know… they seem to take their time and wait to see what happens to them next. You don’t think you’re different from ‘most everyone you know, in fact, it kinda makes the day more exciting, if you think about it. Which you don’t. Life is short, but doesn’t seem to be letting up, so you going to live the hell out the today.
rogers(the Herd Member) you get up at the best time, the world around you like a warm quilt, (with the occasional jerk pulling the covers off your legs or pushing the pillow too high). You know the Right Way and, while you worry sometimes, (quite privately), that you might not be up to the task of setting an example to your friends and co-people, you laugh at the notion that you will fail to show others, by example or reference, how to properly live.

ok, time to get back to our respective predominant worldviews. (Thats the term we use to designate the ‘personality type’. We use it because the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated with how a person relates themelves to the world around them (worldviews) and not because of some set of geno-inspired likes, dislikes and tropae**.)

* not a ‘real’ word

** interestingly, when first encountering the concept of blogging, and the blogosphere itself, my response was, “Yeah, so everyone will read about what I had for breakfast or my thoughts on the weather.”

I had another song in mind, but the one today showed up instead. The thing he does with (the character, if nothing else) of individual notes is simply amazing. yeah, a clark.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 24, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Perfect illustration of the three predominant worldviews. (Photo by Jude Domski/WireImage)

Friday! Surely the most anticlimactic day of the workweek. (Yeah, the weekend is in a class by itself, lol)

And how we reference ‘the Everything Rule’ so often in discussions of workdays and the three predominant worldviews?

What?!! We haven’t been citing this very essential aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine? Why that’s preposterous! ‘the Everything Rule’ is as esstential to advanced application of the Doctrine in day-to-day living as…as rubber bands were to setting the neighborhood bicycle speed record! (Or whatever it was that preadolescent girls did with their time, while waiting for the Third Biggest change in Life, prior to taking over their chrono-appropriate worlds).

damn! We’d best set things back on a more reasonable basis.

(oh, yeah. Before we start, the reference to boys and girls above? The Wakefield Doctrine is gender-neutral. ….whole ‘nother post. Want to hear about it? Mention it in the comments below. However, if you’re a self-identified* predominant clark, you need to proffer your thoughts on the topic as part of the comment.)

On to the topic of ‘the Everything Rule’, which states: ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another’.

Class dismissed.

ha ha

In a ‘nutshell’: we’re all born with the capacity to experience the world around us, (and the people who make it up), from the perspective of one of the three predominant worldviews. At a very early age, we settle into one, (and only one personal reality), and grow up and develop our strategies and styles of interacting with this world, aka our personality type. However, we never lose the inherent capacity of ‘the other two. In fact, many of us have fairly significant secondary and tertiary aspects. Often to the extent that it is observable in certain circumstances. Example: I’m a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. Otherwise I doubt I’d be writing post number 2370 or whatever. (This is not about indications of secondary or tertiary aspects. Suffice to say, they appear mostly at times of duress).

This is about ‘the Everything Rule’. Which, in the simplest of terms, reminds us: clarks, scotts and rogers do not live in isolated realities with unique properties to our respective worlds. The Doctrine isn’t that weird.

But what the Doctrine is, is a perspective on how people relate themelves to the world around them. But it’s a common world. (This insight usually shows up with New Readers when, after getting the description of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers) down, come up and say, ‘I like this (activity/profession/deviant act) is that a scott thing to do?’

Damn! Running out of time.

Short(er) answer: scotts make great cops, rogers are the ultimate engineers and clarks, well, where would we be without elementary school teachers. That said, ‘the Everything Rule’ reminds us that there are clarks on police forces (probably end up dispatchers) and scotts can study and become engineers (and gravitate to sales or, maybe start ups) and rogers can be found among the ranks of Grades 1-8 (there to inspire future authors and writers and such).

The point is, how each of the three manifest the qualities/skills/personal attributes of professions, (or activities/deviant acts), is a function of the reality in which they exist.

Have a ‘great’ Friday.

(Yeah, we did kinda get off topic. oh, well. Don’t forget, document your questions and Comments)

* well, what other way can an effective system of personality types ever hope to be useful, practical and beneficial than to be the result of the individual’s choice and decision-of-application?! This rule (small ‘r’) is one of the first to appear in these pages: ‘No one can, with any claim-to-authority, tell another which of the three, clarks, scotts or rogers’, they are.

That doesn’t mean we can’t talk about other people’s apparent worldview for educational or recreational purposes. Totally can do that! Best way to illustrate the clues to how, (another), person appears to be relating to the world around them. Just can’t claim that one’s opinion has any power over another’s, lest we forget, ‘the Doctrine is for us, not them’.

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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 20, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Monday morning.

Reprint from 2011

But first a word to any New Readers:

The beauty part, (as Lou used to say), of the Doctrine is: You can’t get it wrong. No, serially! You can’t. … ok, that hand waving in the back, your question? You can’t get it wrong simply because it’s true.

Any other questions?

Actually, this is a valid response to a reasonable question. The reason we say, ‘You can’t get it wrong’ is because the (use/application) of the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on how you relate yourself to the world around you. We’re not saying, ‘You are this personality type.’ We are saying, ‘Which of the three relationships to the world around you and the people who make it up, is the most resonant? Better yet, if the view of the predominant worldview(s) of the clark(Outsider), the scott(Predator) or the roger(Herd Member) were lenses, which allows you the least blurry view?

Yes, there may be other lenses, roger. But the Wakefield Doctrine has three lenses, aka predominant worldviews and only three. That’s ok, because as we said, way back in the beginning, the Wakefield Doctrine is not an Answer. It is not even the Only Correct and Effective tool. It is an additional perspective. Use it, along with any others you may be fortunate* to possess. More is more.

Why we’re so confident?

(Full Disclosure: old saying, ‘in for a penny, in for a pound‘. In our experience, those who ‘get’ the Doctrine enough to see the clarks, scotts and rogers around them, end up not being able to not see them. You’ve been warned. lol)

more necessary than you think, impossible to ignore, more popular than it should be, its the personality tool of the Wakefield Doctrine

September 20, 2011

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool that is easy to learn to use. The theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is a fun way to look at the way the people in your life act and behave. The Doctrine is a tool that can be a huge help in changing the things about yourself that you have come to believe should be changed. The WD is a group of people with a common interest who share a way of knowing about human personality (and) the interactions between different people.

Because of the Wakefield Doctrine and this blog: clarks will come to understand that they are not as different from scotts and from rogers as they sometimes think; because of the Wakefield Doctrine and this blog: scotts will see for themselves that the world is less difficult and challenging and (that) not everyone is a threat; because of the Wakefield Doctrine and this blog: rogers will know that it does not matter whether they understand the reasons for the actions of others and (that) people who are different can be ignored without fear.

We are not being overly lyrical or mystical or theoretical or controversial with today’s Post. Sometimes it helps to just let passing thoughts see the light of day.
The Doctrine is beginning to catch on with people who had not heard the term: Wakefield Doctrine. We are getting emails from people who, after reading these pages are asking questions.
Questions about the value and the validity of the Doctrine.

In order to get the most out of today’s little Post, please do the following:

finish reading this Post before moving on*

know that everyone has the qualities of all three personality types, the idea is that one (of the three) is dominant

understand that this is a tool, however, the Doctrine is more a file than a saw, more a screw driver than a hammer (simply, relax, go slow and it will come to you)

take assurance that if you have gotten this far, in this Post, you will grasp the concept of the Wakefield Doctrine and you will get something (in return for your efforts)

the Doctrine is genuinely inspired and has a core of truth that is a little bit amazing in what it offers, but lighten up…it is meant to be fun as well as useful

practicing the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will return benefits way in excess of your efforts

talk to others about this Wakefield Doctrine

don’t worry about getting it right ( and you clarks especially!…don’t worry so much you will get some of it wrong at first)…but the Doctrine is very flexible, you can’t break it

use the tools this thing offers, use it on yourself and when it works tell others

Glad you could stop by. Follow these simple suggestions and let us know how you make out!

* clarks! do not jump around half reading pages….scotts sit! read! think first then act….rogers get back here, you will be glad that you did…later they will understand you, first you must understand them

*there are those unfortunates who are unable to get beyond the, ‘Sure, that’s a great imaginary world, but real is real and there’s only one of those‘. We’re glad to have whatever it is we have that allows us to know there is more to reality than we know. (‘Cliffnotes‘ )

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TToT (Zehn Dinge der Dankbarkeit) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 28, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This week: Ten Things of Thankful. Alphabetically (and…and! numerically, two!) However, spelling, grammar and punctuation is optional.*

ok…this type of TToT takes a little pre-writing and planning… that alphabetical thing, damn!

hokey-smoke! Other than my ‘one-off’ Grat Items(1-4), everything in our ‘normal’ TToTs are, like, after the ‘R’ in the alphabet. Weird.**

1) Digging (The reason: I needed to locate the access hatch to a septic tank in order to have inspections. The goal was to find the pipe on the outside of the foundation. This would determine where the second hole would be, follow the pipe, unfortunately three feet down.)

2) Digging some more. First success! Found the corner of the (concrete tank).

3) Digging success 2 Now it was just a matter of digging out the top of the tank to find the access hatches (septic inspectors inspect, they don’t dig three feet into the ground).