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

This is a Doctrine.*

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

The Wakefield Doctrine is neither an Answer nor is it an organized set of beliefs.

The Wakefield Doctrine is not a club-shaped mirror to use on those around or on your-own-self.

The Wakefield Doctrine does not have categories, placement in which is earned, forced, required or held up as a reward, based on a score, numerical, rhetorical or otherwise expressed.

The Wakefield Doctrine does not predict your future, however, if properly employed, will give you the edge on knowing what the other person is gonna do.

The Wakefield Doctrine does not confer power over others, though it might offer an enhanced access to your own.

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on our respective lives, the world around us and the people who make it up.

The essential premise of the Wakefield Doctrine is that we are born with the capacity to experience life in one of three ways, (aka perspectives), and that, at a very early age, we settle into one, (and only one), of these three personal realities; having done this, (being still infants of world-forming-age), we grow and mature and develop our social strategies and relationships with the world on the basis of the one characteristic reality we find our selfs in:

• the reality of the Outsider(clarks)
• the world of the Predator(scotts)
• the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

While we all settle into one, (and only one), of the three personal realities, (aka predominant worldviews), we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. This potential can be active or inert, powerful or weak; it can color the view of the world in subtle, barely-noticeable shades, or it can be sleeping awaiting a rude awakening.

While each of the three predominant worldviews might be referred to as a personalty type, they are not categories into which an individual is assigned on the basis of the score; it is not a reflection of responses to a description generated by another person. The personality types, (the aforementioned, clarks, scotts and rogers), are simply the individual’s best efforts to develop a style and a manner that allows them to best survive, (and thrive), the world as they are experiencing it.

The personal reality that one experiences, (when referring to predominant worldviews), is real. As real as it needs to be to qualify as reality**.

As an additional perspective on the world and the people who make it up, the Wakefield Doctrine affords me an opportunity to better appreciate how I relate myself to the world around me***.

* yeah, the old Vince Lombardi trope

** if I choose to shout ‘Fire!‘ in a crowded theater or whisper ‘I love you‘ in a darkened bedroom, does it matter that the context from which my very real and, quite objective actions were derived, existed only in my mind (and heart and imagination)?

*** that was not, ‘how I relate to the world around me’ it was, ‘how I relate myself to the world around me’. Huge difference.