Month: May 2011 | the Wakefield Doctrine

personality types, mirrors and the Wakefield Doctrine…it’s all good!

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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?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdUe0xmEFdc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhH-iNk1ZV8

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).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wci-tuggO_M

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

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

Enneagram Type(s) versus Wakefield Doctrine…not even close, folks

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