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Today’s Post, while ostensibly about ‘theories of personality’, is really about the fascination that seeing ourselves in a mirror seems to hold for most of us. Walking down the street, spotting our reflection in a store window, or passing a mirror hung from a wall, most people (and some animals) simply have to stop and look. at themselves… in the mirror.

This ties into ‘Personality Theories’, because what is a personality theory if not ‘a mirror’?
(For our purposes), we are not talking about ‘real’ Personality Theory like those of Adler, or Freud or Sheldon*, those are real theories with studies and testing and a whole bunch empirical data. In our case, we are talking about the kind of ‘Personality Theory’ that captures a genuine facet of the human experience and presents it in a  fun and useful manner, ready made for the average person flipping through a popular magazine in a waiting room, or even at work or at home on the computer, surfing the internet.

Since we are talking about a class of Personality Theory that is as much entertainment as it is education, a fair question would be, is the Wakefield Doctrine fun?
are you frickin serious!?…it’s fun, you betcha!…if your idea of fun is knowing why people behave the way they do and if for you feel that personal self-improvement is way up there, right next to sex and food, then the answer is: “Yes, yes it is fun”  We all ’bout the fun, here at the Wakefield Doctrine. Don’t be shy, give it a try (yo). With  only three  personality types ( or ways of perceiving the world), that we call  clarks, scotts and rogers, most people find the Doctrine way easier to learn! Just by applying the description of the three types to people that you already know, people who you are close to, your husband/wife, girlfriend/boyfriend, classmate/cellmate, people at work or just the people you pass on the street every day. It’s easy and it’s fun.  Another the thing about the Doctrine, it offers a way to understand why people act the way they do in a totally non-judgement way; we all have the clarklike, scottian and rogerian parts to our-own-selfs…its just a matter of one of these three ways of seeing the world is dominant. There is no ‘good type’ or ‘bad type’, none of the three is better than the other (not counting rogers, of course**).

(The mirror?…the Wakefield Doctrine is so a mirror you will not be able to take your eyes off yourself.)

(Well, alright….if you insist! ) The question has been raised (by a Reader not too shy to write in, for that she gets a Wakefield Doctrine hat (for her damn head!), when it comes to this innate facination with our reflections in mirrors, how do the three personality types differ? Good Question! Short bulleted answer followed by 3 vids that can be linked, each to one of the three types. First Reader with the correct answer (Sorry, DownSprings and Progenitors not eligible) of which vid connects to which personality type will win a Wakefield Doctrine hat! (for your damn head!)

• clarks: not big fans of the reflection thing, will endure the (necessary) use of mirrors but do not spend any more time than is absolutely necessary
• scotts: fun!
• rogers:…of course!…what mirrors? …what was your question?

OK! Put down your pencils and type us a Comment in which you answer the following question:

The three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine each view the world in a certain/characteristic and identifiable way; based on your study of this wonderful theory, you already know that clarks are outsiders and always on guard and scotts are pack animals, living in the moment and rogers see the world as (mostly) a vast herd or rogers, with the regretted but accepted presence of predators and some kind of oddly attractive non-roger/non-predator lifeforms (like some fucked up eocene).

* ( dude came up with a totally convincing theory of personality predicated on body type, very cool.)

** (a little Doctrine humor, hey, lighten up!)