Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

…was waiting, yesterday morning, at a property to meet the town building inspector when it struck me, the guy was a scott.*

The job: Building Inspector. Kinda like a being a cop, except you don’t get to carry a gun. You do have a designated vehicle (which has your authority written on the doors) and you get to chase miscreants. Admittedly, putting half the required number of electrical outlets in a house or neglecting to continue the handrail the entire distance down a staircase is not likely to form the basis of a television series**. But, it’s about the hunt and the kill for the personality type referred to as a scott.

It is understandably tempting for people, once they’ve come into possession of the basic description of the three personality types

1. clarks(the Outsider)
2. scotts(the Predator)
3. rogers(the Herd Member)

to say, “That is certainly a job only a Scott could pull off!” or “She must be a roger, seeing what they require of people in that position” even, “I can’t imagine anyone but a clark doing that!”

Not as true as it should be.***

Natural enough for us to associate certain occupations, avocations, preoccupations and jobs with one of the three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) of the Doctrine. However, to try and assign exclusive domain to one and only one would miss taking advantage of the power of one of the primary tenets of this here personality theory here, i.e. personal reality.

Beyond the scope of this post, which already has a topic, much is written about how literal we are about the reality half of ‘personal reality’. But thats for another post.

Two words: the Everything Rule.

This rule simply reminds us that we are talking about a common reality in which individuals experience personal realities. It is not that there are jobs for which a clark is suited but a roger or a scott is not; nor are there professions that only a scott would succeed at, the aforementioned building inspector being an example.

The Rule serves to prompt us to differentiate between how things manifest in each of the three worldviews.

There are natural strengths (within each of the three personality types) that suggest likely success in a given occupation.

a clark excelles at elementary education (’cause there’s no requirement for ‘up-selling’ in the relationship with the students …lol)

a scott tends to gravitate to the medical ‘speciality’ of surgery …as opposed to, say, oncology (‘…lets round it off and gimme that scalpel’)

rogers maintain there is no question that two plus two equals four… every single time… (hey, I want to fly at thirty-five thousand feet while going five hundred miles-per-hour, how exact do you need these calculations?)

Enough for today.

New Readers: the reality we talk about in the three worldviews, (that, in turn, account for the nature and character of our three personality types)? Real. Not pretend, not subject-appears-to-have-a-natural-tropism-towards…. not selective perception. Real. Get comfortable with this, it’ll make the posts about gender and secondary aspects way more fun.

* reminder: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral. There are no female clarks, scotts or rogers. There are, however, clarklike females, scottian women and rogerian ladies. Thing is, what creates the three personality types of this here Doctrine here, is the nature, the character of the relationship between the individual and the rest of the world (with it’s institutions and courtrooms and people and such). The thing that makes a body an Outsider or a Predator or a Herd Member is the reality in which we grow and develop into, well, into people. So, it doesn’t matter what our gender is, it very much matters what kind of reality we are trying to negotiate (and survive (and, even, thrive (in)). That said, the world does impose some limits and otherwise shapes the range of expression we experience as we try to live among the people, in the world they make up.

given that the CMS probably frowns on multi-paragraphic footnotes, we’ll take up the matter of gender in another post.

** given cursory reading of the listings of television shows, which include series about every deviance of personality, affliction of body and being from New Jersey or Los Angeles, we should not preclude the possibility of a hit show about Building Inspectors.

*** lol who said, “Thats right….clark!” Extra points