Scotts

The Wakefield Doctrine is based on the premise that behavior is a response to perception. Within individuals, these behaviors tend to repeat themselves over time, and with repetition become a defining and characteristic type of behavior, in other words, personality.

The Wakefield Doctrine proposes to describe personality on the basis of perception rather than the behavior that results (from perception).

The three characteristic ways to perceive the world are identified as: clarks, scotts and rogers. It is a given that we all start our lives with the potential to perceive the world as any of the three. However at some point in our early, early childhood we become predominantly a clark, a scott or a roger. Our ‘preferred bias’ in how we percieve the world at large becomes established.

We become clarks, scotts or rogers.

We become clarks, scotts or rogers.

…clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel…

scott. (adj. scottian to have the qualities of a scott; pronunciation: scoe-shun).

The metaphor for a scott is that of predator/hunter, in the animal kingdom we would look to dogs and wolfs and other predators, consequently the world (to the scott) is a world that is characterized by an environment that is essentially hostile, a world of danger and threat. .

That ‘reality is perception’ is as non-scottian a concept as there is; scotts are the ultimate realists.

Scotts live to act and act to live.

While there is certainly a subjective side to scotts, they inhabit a world of stimulus-response. In the sense that by nature they will go into the world, satisfy their need (whatever that may be) through direct action. Scotts do not have a strong need for peer approval.

It has been said of scotts: ”I scream, therefore I am”

Some bullets points relating to the nature and character of the scottian personality type:

scotts are leaders (because they are certain, not necessarily right, but certain).
scotts are self-confident/self-assured/certain (which is why, of course, they are the leaders)
scotts are very emotional, but in a way different way from rogers, mecurial is the best word to describe these people
in a band it is always a scott who is the ‘front man’, (see leader above)
at a party scotts will introduce themselves (to everyone)
when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee
scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, hardly ever both.
(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (ask us why)

One of the most useful metaphors in the Wakefield Doctrine is: grouping (when you have more than one of each type, what do the characteristics tell us about the individual?)

The social structure most appropriate to the scottian personality type is that of the pack, as seen in wolves and other near-canine animals in the wild.

(For our purposes) The nature of a pack is a common purpose for shared benefit and (an internal) hierarchy of members. This hierarchy is relatively simple, i.e. a ranking of members as dominant and submissive. There is always an alpha.

The pack is formed in response to a world that is perceived as fundamentally hostile; a world of predator and prey.
The pack will function as a group only for relatively narrowly defined goals/purposes. Securing food and defending territory.

The scottian personality type demonstrates the closest parallel of actual behavior to the behavior ‘supposed’ when employing the metaphors that we have found helpful in understanding the other two personality types. Case in point, the social behavior of certain predators (dogs and wolves) in the wild and the social behavior of the scott in a social situation. A scott will, invariably (upon entering a social situation), approach all the other people present and ‘push them on the shoulder’ (figuratively most of the time, on occasion literally). The scott is doing this simply to elicit a reaction/response from the other person, which in turn allows (the scott) to establish ranking. Does the other person push back or not? Where in the pack that the situation implies, does any one person stand relative to our scott.

This behavior is perceived as being the result of being a gregarious and very social person. The scottian personality (type) are thought of as the ‘life of the party’; in reality, their actual purpose of this socializing is only to discover if there are other scotts in the environment and if there are ranking and territory establishment are the next order of business.
So, the life of the party, the scott, is not being entertaining because he/she likes you or your dress, the scott is simply establishing where the other scotts are, who is dominant and where the prey-type personality people are in the setting.

How do you know when you encounter a scott?

The eyes. Scotts have a distinctive ‘focus’, their gaze is never incidental to their mood, the conversation they are engaged in, the scott will always be watching the surrounding environment for threats and opportunity.