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

“I thought I heard something from over there too! What are the odds?”

(In the timeless tradition of book reports and written accounts for time spent away from class.)

...the purpose of this Post.

You know the really interesting question is not the, ‘What’, rather, it is the ‘Why’

…thing of it is, the ‘What’ question is the one that has generated the two thousand two hundred and eleven posts* that came before.

There is one driving ambition, to this blog and, by reductive extension*** behind all that you will find in these pages: to have as many people as possible learn of the Wakefield Doctrine. The reductive extension, which accounts for and can be found to apply to most individual posts, is the ambition to write a perfect Wakefield Doctrine post.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people who make it up. Disguised, or as we like to say ’round the Doctrine clubhouse, manifesting as a personality type/theory, the Wakefield Doctrine offers an internally-consistent framework to support three personality types.

The basic premise is: we are born with the capability to experience life from the perspective of one of three characteristic realities, the world of the Outsider(clarks), the reality of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers). We find our-very-young-selves in one (and only one) of these three realities. From there we grow and mature and, in the process: develop behaviors and social strategies, coping mechanisms and personal tastes as is appropriate to the context, appropriate and effective relative to our reality.

Put another way: a clark has trained to live life as an Outsider; a scott has developed all the skills that are necessary to survive and thrive in the world of a Predator and a roger is an example of the interpersonal skillset best suited to the world of the Herd Member.

This approach will distinguish the Wakefield Doctrine from most other approaches to personality types. We are not concerned with trait surveys or schedules of interests and tropisms, there is no scoring system, the product of which designates one’s personality type, (from a list of points on a spectrum of styles-of-life).

Each of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine represent the best adaptation to the world in which the individual grew up.

While it is….err doctrine(lol) that we all have one predominant worldview, it is also a given that we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. In point of fact, there is often a case where an individual will have a markedly developed secondary (or tertiary) aspect. This can be observed when a person acts in a manner in contrast to their normal selfs.

It is all about ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’.

Learn the character and qualities of the three ways to relate to the world and you will not only have a deeper understanding of those around you, you will have the ability, (if not necessarily the will), to self-improve yourself far more effectively than ever before.

* Full Disclosure** some of those two thousand two hundred and eleven posts were ‘Guest Posts’ (written by others) and yet others are video posts¹

** and conclusive evidence of being a clark…lol

*** not a ‘real’ term of rhetoric

1) as a matter of fact, yes, I am prepared to argue that they, (the video posts), are as ‘written’ as anything cunniformistically rendered and corralled by …by ‘the Wranglers of Grammar’ (with the dreaded CMS brand), waiting to encounter desirable wordage.