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the Wakefield Doctrine ( a unique, useful and fun way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives)

July 13, 2012 By

The Wakefield Doctrine aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is a view of personality and personality types that is unique, very, very useful and can be quite entertaining, even when you are not using it to delve into the motivations and drives of your spouse, friends, co-workers and the occasional stranger.  Our own Progenitor roger coined the phrase, ‘improvisational academe‘ to convey the sense of a serious, yet non-empirical (at least in the original development) theory that allows us to not only gain insight into another person’s behavior but to account for their personality type that is quite unique in the over-crowded marketplace of ways to understand each other.  The Wakefield Doctrine (or ‘the Doctrine‘ for short)  is  an interesting and unique attempt to answer the age-old question, “Now why in the world would they go and say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better!” 

Who can honestly say that you have not had this thought, felt this frustration, wanted to be better able to understand why people act the way that they do? The answer? no one. Try typing, ‘personality’  ‘personality theory’ ‘changing bad habits’ into the google search window. The search results tell the whole story. Which is:

  • people want to understand personality types and (how) to predict behavior in others
  • no one has come up with a theory or system or viewpoint or program that completely fills this need
Which brings us to the Wakefield Doctrine. Using the Wakefield Doctrine you will gain a perspective on the behavior and personality dynamics of not only the people in your life, but on yourself. (According to most surveys the desire to change something about oneself rates a little higher than wanting to change something about another person). Good news! While the Wakefield Doctrine offers amazingly accurate insight into the personality of other people, it is very, very useful when trying to change something about yourself.
The Wakefield Doctrine says that we all live in personal realities (sometimes referred to as worldviews) and that there are three characteristic personal realities:
  1. the world of the outsider
  2. the world of the predator
  3. the world of the herd-member
All of us are born with the potential to live in any of these three realities, but choose one at a very early age. While we never completely lose the capacity to see the world as do the other two, we are predominately one of the three:  a clark or a scott or a roger. By thoroughly understanding the characteristic of the three worldviews, we are able to infer which a given individual is experiencing.
For example: If you meet a young woman who has a streak of purple in her hair, a tattoo and (she is) wearing combat boots, your first guess is going to be  clark (or) if you are at a party and at the center of a group of people is a guy who is very good at telling jokes and as you try to join the crowd around him, he makes a point of recognizing you…loudly and  you notice that the ‘tone’ of his jokes are becoming more and more…risque? off-color? (definitely heading towards becoming offensive ) then you will infer that he is a scott  (finally) as you drive to work you come upon a group of 10 or 15 bicyclists stopped by the side of the road and at least half of them are busy with their phones (most likely Blackberrys) while the other half are adjusting the little mirrors on their helmets or are busy hydrating from water bottle that have the same color scheme and corporate logos as their clothing, then you are seeing rogers.
So what does any of this have to do with understanding personality or changing bad habits? A lot. With the people in the example above, you can infer which of the three personal realities they are living their lives in and you will then know a lot more than just what you observe. …. a lot more.*
The thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is that it produces connections among very disparate elements of our personalities. By this we mean the kinds of things that other personality systems will try to find out by making the User take a survey or answer a bunch of questions about their interests, likes and dislikes. With the Wakefield Doctrine these insights are very readily available.
So we would like to welcome you to this Wakefield Doctrine blog. Ask questions, read about the individual types on the Pages listed above and write us Comments.
*the bicyclist? loves anything Ken Burns does, finds the study of genealogy and if you count the number of times he/she uses the personal pronoun ‘I’ or ‘me’ and compare it to one of the other two you will be shocked!
The girl with the purple hair? talk to her some more and you will find that she has a closet full of clothing that somehow integrates gothic with American homespun and that she has a surprisingly advanced vocabulary and a healthy distrust of everyone except her friends
…and the guy telling jokes? he will be quick to make decisions, be perceived as a ‘natural leader’ and has the attention span of a 5 year old.

 

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clarkscottroger About clarkscottroger
Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one