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‘suhhh…Monday‘ -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 23, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is a post that is mostly-inspired by the current (Sunday) weather. The music vid at the bottom is as much a part of the post as the pine-bending, ocean-warm wind that we’re pretty much enjoying today.

The song has something that, to me, compliments a certain kind of weather. Windy, but not cold. Rainy, but with intermittent torrential downpours. And …and! in my location the wind has a tone, a voice, if you will. Pine forests tend to do that. Nothing all frantic and oh-my-god(ish), like the way oaks and maples and the deciduous trees tend to impart on wind. There is, with pines, a ‘coherence’ to the tone of the wind.

Better, there is a sense of locality. I can sit here, looking out into the woods and hear the wind in the distance. Sometimes it approaches, building in volume and immediacy. Other times, you can hear it head this way, but turn off in another direction. If you listen closely, you can hear sound of trees-and-wind wrestling someplace farther away.

Rather cool.

But, this post is about the Wakefield Doctrine.

It is about the goal of writing the perfect Doctrine post. The perfect Doctrine post is one that a Reader, lacking any familiarity with this blog or it’s writings, can read once and be able to apply the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to their own world, and the people who make it up.

Shall we give it a shot?

The Wakefield Doctrine offers a perspective on the world, and the people who make it up. Imagine, (for a moment), accept, (for the sake of argument) or agree, (long enough to get through this post), that we, all of us, live in a reality that is, to a small, but very real degree, personal.

That we, all of us, have a certain, enduring relationship with the world around us, (and the people who make it up), that’s not such a leap, is it? There’s always an element of ‘me/I’ to our existence, no matter how selfless or busy or important we might be.

The Wakefield Doctrine offers three descriptions of the basis of this relationship, the one that all of us develop as we live and mature. What makes the Wakefield Doctrine a perspective, (an additional perspective), on the world, and the people who make it up, is the character of these three ways of relating to the world.

As an Outsider(clarks), as a Predator(scotts) and as a Herd Member(rogers), each of these three ways of relating ourselves to the world around us offer insight that most never enjoy.

The most singular value of this exercise, for many of us, is the fact of ‘additional perspectives’. The value and the power of accepting (an) additional perspective, lies in letting go of the un-examined worldview that most of us begin life with.

…. out of time.

New Readers? The descriptions of typical characteristics and behaviors of the three predominant worldviews, (aka personality types), is not only helpful in identifying others, it is invaluable in appreciating the nature and character of the three ways we might relate ourselves to the world around us.

Learn the three and you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

It’s fun too! ‘Cause, when you’re out in the world, you will see clarks, scotts and rogers act so much like their respective types that you’ll think someone put them up to it! No, serially!

But fair warning! If you go to the effort to learn the three worldviews sufficiently to identify them in your life, you may find that you are unable to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Not quite a perfect Doctrine post. Ran out of time. Should have included a basic description of the three predominant worldviews, at least how they are likely to behave in common, everyday activities and situations.

Maybe next time.

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, self-development, the Wakefield Doctrine, three personality types, Understanding Human Behavior

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 24, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

(I’m able to participate this week, so let’s go ahead and make this Number Four in our, soon-to-be-put-into-context, list.)

It was created by Lizzi, on a March afternoon, when the ground was rock-frozen and the sky burned blue all afternoon.

(Yes! You are correct! We are on the whimsy wagon this weekend. That, in no way, detracts from the sincerity and good intent of this week’s Grat List, adding as we are, the founding of the bloghop as Number Five)

We have a host, Dyanne. She has co-hostinae. Being one of them, if my sophomoric Latin doesn’t fail me, makes me a co-hostinius.

(My confidence in the face of an imagination that insists on tipping over the toy box before playing, surely rates inclusion as Number Six on this here list here.)

There is this internet. Surely it is both a never-depleted well and (a) bottomless pit for those who, through time or circumstance, character defect or divine inspiration, can not resist the next curiosity, the door at the end of the alley, the flash of white on a muttering rabbit…hello, goodbye.

(If none of the previous Grats cause a nod of approval, surely this, the one we will designate Number Nine, (for reasons, almost obvious in one of the music videos below) will resonate from anyone who owns a magic mirror and electrical keyboard.)

Number Seven, the immediate labelling an alert to a declining altitude in the current flight (sure, you could refer to it as Flight Twenty, Fancy Airlines), leads us to realize that all good things must come to an end..

Speaking of which, like the last peak of the too-high hill on a roller coaster, the Month of July will soon be abandoning us to the plummet to No-Longer-Summer.

(What a bummer! Surely an appropriate response. We do, however, invoke the Secret Rule of Hypogratuitous Items. And include it in this week’s TToT. Those who linger, resentment smouldering like a cigarette on picnic-trampled grass, would be advised to stop by Mimi’s blog. She is the master of the proper utilization of the hypograt and would otherwise be ranked way higher than Number Eight.)

Because we’ve been awarded a combination: Get out of Jail and Hall-pass cards, we’ll put our normal (yeah, as if) last item, Secret Rule 1.3 here at Numero Diez.

That leaves Two:

Una ————————————————————-↓

Phyllis ————————↑

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…on rogers and the recovery of deep-worldview artifacts’

July 20, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Let’s see how brief and/or succinct we can be in a post, shall we? This shall be a post that describes one of the best moments in the writing of this blog, all the while offering insight into one of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. It is, as both the title above and the first of the format (for the post) references, ‘the discovery of a (reality) artifact’.

The artifact: Referential Authority

The Definition of this artifact: a deep-seated, morel* basis for exerting aggression on those surrounding a roger, including, but not limited to potential additions to (the subject’s) Herd. This artifact was not a characteristic that could, normally, be extrapolated from the description of the rogerian predominant worldview, i.e. the World of the Herd Member.

How it came to be discovered:

So, back in, like, 2011, we wrote a series of posts describing ‘real’ life situation. The idea was to provide a context in which the three personality types, (in the characters in these story-ettes) might illustrate characteristic behavior. Readers might then acquire a greater understanding of the world as it is experienced by the personalty types they were not, aka, ‘the other two worldviews’.

Not for nothin, but the premier value of the Wakefield Doctrine are these insights into the reality of the three predominant worldviews. It’s these, ‘because’ descriptions that allow us to see through the eyes of the others: scotts, being predators make excellent cops; rogers, growing up in a quantifiable universe, do really well learning science and engineering and other rule-based disciplines and clarks, having no sense of either, are free to roam the world, looking for clues. As a result, the Wakefield Doctrine is able to offer descriptions of typical behavior of all three, in a variety is scenaria. More importantly, the Doctrine helps us understand how an individual (clark or scott or roger) relates to the world around them. The rest is easily extrapolated.

But…but! the Case of the Serendipitous Extrapolation … that was special.

If you want to read the original post, comment and I’ll look it up. Not as polished, is the writing, as it was just as I was beginning to get hooked on the writing thing, they do, however make their point.

The Scene: A young woman, seeking a job waitressing at a popular restaurant, arrives too early for her interview. It’s the middle of the noon rush. The owner, who will interview her, is the cook and flat-out busy. The applicant is instructed, by the equally pre-occupied cashier/waitress, to sit at a table by the door and wait for things to calm down. Fine. Quickly growing bored…

(Almost forgot! The structure, ‘setup’ of these posts? They were scenes, taken from everyday life, ok? Following each story, we’d offer the Reader three different ‘courses of action’. They would be asked to make a choice, one of three. Of course, we wrote (the responses) to be reflective of the three worldviews. Or so was our ambition. But that’s not the important part! The thing was…)

One of the, ‘what should the job applicant do as she waited’ choices was premised on her being a clark; get up and help the over-worked waitress by clearing some tables. Sounds reasonable, right?

rogers went crazy. their reaction to this proposed course of action was total outrage! clearly they were most grievously offended.

‘no way!‘ (and) ‘how could you condone such acts?! ‘(and) ‘are you inhuman?! she doesn’t work there, if we had any say, this woman would be banned from all work in the restaurant and hospitality field’

(ok, I exaggerated that last one) but among the Readers (who were asked for reactions) rogers (and only rogers) were outraged.

Fortunately for us, the Wakefield Doctrine itself, somehow, has ways of pointing out things that we might miss. This episode exposed a genuine, deep-worldview artifact from the personal reality of Herd Members. Also, I was fortunate in having articulate rogers among the Readers, so I could ask, ‘Why? What’s wrong with clearing tables?’

The answer was consistent, (in it’s underlying rational if nothing else), this course of action was bad because she was not an employee. Clearing tables (in a restaurant) is an employee function. Customers don’t clear tables. That’s part of what they’re paying for and, by extension, why they came in the door. aka the value of the restaurant was tied to every aspect of the customer experience.

Only employees clear tables.

We had the clues and the trail. The proof of insight was in the consistency of the emotional content. It was heartfelt and real, therefore, (our thinking went), it must reflect an element in their, (the rogerian), reality so fundamental as to not be a conscious decision.

The term ‘Referential Authority’ came to our mind. And immediately made sense of much of what we’re all aware of when it comes to the ways of our rogerian kin:

…the Old Testament in the hands of an authoritarian preacher, the Will of the Voters to a rogerian politician, the Lesson Planner on the desk of a Substitute Teacher, the workplace policy manual in the hands of the HR Director when she tells the job applicant, ‘We call this the Bible’ (and no one in the company, past and present ever refers to it as that). Only the HR Director or Director wannabe.

We did not know of ‘referential authority’ when we began to write of the Wakefield Doctrine in this blog. However, with the tools it provides, we were able to discover it and, by doing so, deepen our understanding of a reality that is not available to any but one group.

* a little rogerian expressions humor**

** Readers will recognize it as a faux expression, skillfully executed by a clark, but lacking that explosive, frisson-induced bark of laughter that is the normal response (as opposed to the response of normal people) to a genuine rogerian expression, such as, for example:

“I found the article on the current market well-informed, however, the style of writing was off-putting. The typical real estate agent is far too self-absorbent to hold my interest for very long.”

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, predicting human behavior, relationships, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine, three personality types, Understanding Human Behavior

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 17, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our weekly installment in the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT). A ‘grat bloghop’, but with a creative twist. This quality being integral to the character that the founderess, Lizzi, instilled in the creation of this weekly exercise. Not a surprise, she being one of those genuinely creative people*.

At the current time our host is Dyanne. (Aided by co-hostinae, Lisa and Pat and Mimi)

So, on with the list of the people, places and things that instill, inspire, incite and otherwise make a body experience gratitude.

1) Phyllis —-⇓

2) Una ————————————————————————————⇑

3) The current weather, which for the last two days, has been fairly excellent. (Am a fan of the more enhanced temperatures of the summer months. My answer to the perennial weather/temperature/comfort question is, pretty much, always, “No.”)

4) Flora Refuge (aka Triffid Grove) Selective mowing, with a nod to mobile lifeforms, manifested as pathways to observe the chlorophyll abattoir that is our side yard.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) serial writing, stories to unfold pretty much of their own accord, specifically: the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf

7) work (and the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefings which is on ‘the youtube’. everyone seems to enjoy the commercials as much as the actual Briefings) But to enjoy the Proof of Concept for the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool to self-improve one self, check the 20 Minute page at the Facebook.

8) In Number 7 above, there is a very helpful illustration of a clark and a scott (per our favorite personality theory).

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (at this stage of the game, we trust this Rule (or it’s source) need not be explained any further?)

* that would be a reference to one of three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. Rules of Etiquette governing said Doctrine allow only the individual to designate one’s predominant worldview. (Of course, it is quite permissible to discuss one’s likely type, but only in direct conversation. One simply doesn’t go around making statements about another’s personal reality

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Ten Things of Thankful -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop, created by Lizzi, following a walk alongside storm-battered cliffs, on the Manchester-Manchester England seacoast. Little did she realize how in a scant eight or eleven years, the bloghop that did speak it’s name would be hosted by Dyanne.

Now, at the beginning of the second decade in the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, the gathering of words would continue.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which permits, (albeit, grudgingly), the remainder of this list of grats to qualify under a set of rules that would put the Queen of Hearts to shame, i.e. the use of hypograts. This refers to those people, places and things that occur to all of us, whether we want them to or not. (Mostly not). But the BoSR/SBoR maintains that we are all gifted with the transformative power of perspective. Which allows us to put things into a context that nets out positive.

4) The difference Time makes. Category: Harmless unless, that is, the question is asked, ‘But what other biases and prejudices are the necessary foundation for any given humor. (Precursor conditions of audience: sub-adolescent Y-Chromian, coming to age on the Eastern shore of Oceania.)

Exhibit 1:

5) The difference Time makes. Category: the foibles of previous generations hang on to the umbilical of nostalgia in the seemingly-innocuous panels of newspaper cartoons. Freely-available insight into the reality of different times in a given culture, if such would be your interest. And although it is very much ‘preaching to the elect’, all one need do is look back at what passed for humor, entertainment and standards for social interactions. Though we very much caution: it’s easy to think, ‘We’ve certainly developed as a society, we don’t have gladiatorial spectacles, at least not so far as to actually kill people in the process’. However, if we but look to recent history (20th Century), it’s quite apparent how tenaciously the past holds us in thrall.

Exhibit 1: Dagwood Bumstead, abused at work, with a King Kong of food obsessions. The guy can’t catch a break! His boss, Julius Dithers, has actually kicked Dagwood across the office; granted, Dagwood was sleeping at his desk. But still. And Blondie, totally passive aggressive enabler, has a catering business. Denial much?