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

Let’s get started.

Full Disclosure: that should be ‘Let’s get re-started’.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. As a perspective, the only requirement is to be able (and willing) to accept that the world being experienced by a another person is, in all likelihood ,to a small, but quite real degree…different.

At the heart of our little personality theory is the relationship between the world and the individual.

And, seeing how you, the Reader, are obviously possessed of a certain flexible intellect, to this description we will elaborate: the perspective afforded by the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how a person relates themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up’.

There we go! Simple(st) of descriptions of the Wakefield Doctrine.

Seeing how we’re on such a roll and the keys on the keyboard are rising to meet our fingers. (lol … Old Irish blessing originated during the Great alphabet Famine of 1654), lets look at the three perspectives (relationships) of the Wakefield Doctrine:

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

We are, all of us, born with the potential to relate to the world as one (and only one) of these three. However, we never lose the capability to relate to the world as do ‘the other two’. These potentials are referred to as secondary and tertiary aspects. If significant enough, it will make a scott appear rogerian, (at times, in certain circumstances) or, in our case, a clark act like a scott (at times and in certain circumstances).

This, (the effect of a significant secondary aspect), often leads to confusion among New Readers. Maybe they catch a roger sounding thoughtful to the point of empathizing or a clark being… pushy and in-any-available-face).

The cool thing about the Doctrine, especially for New Readers who are often overly-concerned with 1) ‘getting it right’ in the ‘which of the three are they’ challenge or b) determining their own predominant worldview, is that you can’t get this thing wrong.

Serially.

If you study the principles and learn the characteristics of each of the three, you will always, eventually, come back to the ‘true’ worldview. Thats because these personality types? They’re relationships not an aggregate of descriptions, total points on a questionnaire, the sum of an objective assessment that places a person (or you) in a category. One of three personality types indicated.

It, as we said at the top of this post, (for you speed-reading aka skimming-texts clarks out there), is all about: thinking how a person might deal with any situation/ what the person’s actions would likely be in response to/or how it feel to be….

(Our favorite ‘Pro-tip: Determining one’s predominant worldview: look at the person (or the mirror) and determine the ‘No fricken’ way’ (of the three). Now you have two. Side-by-each, like in the optometrist’s office, “How clear is this… Now, How about this?” The predominant worldview always ‘looks more in focus’. )

Enough for today.