Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
Your Enneagram Type(s): Type 8
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Eight’s need to be powerful to make their own way in life. They are
motivated to maintain territorial control over anything that can
influence their lives and by the desire to stay on top in any power
struggle Of all the Enneagram types, they are the most openly
aggressive. They are dominant figures both at work and at home.
They enjoy being strong and judge others according to whether those
others are strong or weak. They also enjoy confronting others, and are
even willing to take on the whole power structure if they feel a need
for radical change. Eight’s are courageous and will crusade for what
they believe in. They bring abundant energy to meeting challenges at
work or elsewhere.They are “natural leaders.” Their overwhelming self-confidence is
contagious and can generate in others the energy that is necessary to
accomplish monumental tasks.
The above courtesy of DownSpring Ms. AKH, who completed an on-line Enneagram survey. She was good enough to smuggle the “test” “”results”” back to Doctrine HQ, (so we could examine ’em).
At least they had AKH at the right end of the personality spectrum, (Type A, Driver Personality etc) That they appear to be describing the the scottian character of AKH’s personality is so not a surprise. It is what they do not (and cannot) do is what this Post is all about. This Enneagram describes behavior, and with (it’s descriptions) extrapolates other aspects of the subject’s life. That they have ‘high energy’ and ‘overwhelming self-confidence’ fine, so what? This (system) then tries to demonstrate a value by taking these descriptions and then stating that this personality type inspires confidence. Well, duuh! (…people will feel good about relying on a person who shows self-confidence…!! how could they have known!! )
But this Post is not about running down the Entemann’s Personality thingie. Instead, we are using it to form a back drop to present the Wakefield Doctrine. To that end we have a chart:
Lets break this tripe right down:
| Enneagram | Wakefield Doctrine | …say what? |
| “Eight’s need to be powerful…” | scotts are predators by nature | need to be powerful? No, they are powerful, by nature…idiot |
| “…make their own way in life” | …no shit | yeah guys, and water is wet…you charge money for this? |
| “…motivated to maintain territorial control.” | …actually getting close, but they don’t know why | predators establish territory, but it is a context, not a limiting field |
| “Of all the Enneagram types, they are the most openly aggressive…” |
…aggressiveness is not limited to a direct attack, rogers can be very aggressive, but only in the referential way of the herd authority | …great, ‘scotts are aggressive’, so at least we know they have AKH’s number…but please, continue… |
| “They enjoy being strong and judge others according to whether those others are strong or weak”. |
…a lot like saying, ‘people enjoy breathing’, ‘fish are into swimming’… | here they are showing their limitations…scotts don’t enjoy being scotts, they are scotts and they do not judge others on the basis of strength or weakness, they kill and/or eat them on the basis… |
| “They also enjoy confronting others…” | again with the ‘enjoy your basic nature shit’… | This is the shallowness of their model, they talk about personality as if it were a suit of clothes, something you pick out according to taste…idiots |
| “Eight’s are courageous and will crusade for what they believe in”. |
…er, we’re talking predators here, remember? | Crusade? Only if you are referring to the killing and raping and pillaging aspect, if you mean, ‘for a cause’ you better go look up: roger in your personality catalog, yo |
| “They bring abundant energy to meeting challenges at work or elsewhere.” |
…yeah, better put the breakable dishes and the sensitive instrumentation in the closet | Again, mix up the nature of the person with the behavior of the person… |
| “They are “natural leaders.” Their overwhelming self-confidence is contagious and can generate in others the energy that is necessary to accomplish monumental tasks”. |
You can’t have a mob without a scott…ain’t gonna be no world wars without overwhelming self-confidence | …missing the pier, never mind the boat… |
to our friends at IET, Lucknow…hey yo
So there you have it, a breakdown of the comparison of the parallels of relative deficiencies of the two modalities.
Anyone care to Comment, we will continue this live of exposition ( DownSprings not included) I’m talking to you Seattle, Sacramento, Pradesh Udar…let us know you are out there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KTFoMJi3uE
About clarkscottroger
As in any “test” there needs to be more than 1 “sampling” don’t you think? Having said that, it appears the Enneagram was spot on, eh Ms. AKH?
I clearly did not make the point clearly enough…the about ennegram simply says that Ms AKH is aggressive and confident, but so what? Everyone (at one time or another, circumstance or another) resembles the Results cited above.
This result is worse than useless, it is falsely assuring of confirming a person’s suspicions about their personality, totally without offering any insight into the true personality of the Test Taker.
Oh, you did make the point clear. Was simply attempting to have you make a statement (such as you did) to clarify for new(er) readers. Nothing wrong with a little recapitulation now and then…
yeah, …’-itulation’*
* (ask glenn)
(…knock, knock!…knock, knock!…are you there? Glenn? DS1 here. Answer.)