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Tuesday/Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 20, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

ok, who, as you read the title of today’s post, thought, “Oh, boy! A RePrint post today!”

Well, there’s a good reason why everyone will tell you, “That Tuesday? Best and mildest day of the week!”

We’re glad you asked!

…forgot our point.

oh well, New Readers? this is all about additional perspectives on the world around us (and the people who make it up). Your relationship to your world is one of three:

the Outsider (clarks) clarks think the world is ‘out there’ and while sometimes an enjoyable puzzle, there is one piece missing but being blessed with an insatiable curiosity, it’s only a matter of time
the Predator (scotts) life is now, prey to chase (larger) predators to contend with, action is more than a verb, it’s a way of life… there is no need to over-think it… scotts act
the Herd Member (rogers) life is good and sufficient and quantifiable and connected and every other good thing, it is everything other than cold, distant and un-relatable. there is a rule (among many) and that is to learn the Right Way and comes with a responsibility to make sure everyone has an opportunity to also learn that rogers feel

the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, culture and age neutral.

Tuesday Morning: how the 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine respond to this ‘mildest of Weekdays’

October 2, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( three characteristic worldviews determine the 3 personality types: clarks, scotts and rogers )

Almost too easy. But we must be considerate of the New Reader! No telling how many people have arrived here at the Wakefield Doctrine this very Tuesday morning, driven by an insatiable curiosity, a little free-time at their computer at work/school or simply an annoying friend/co-worker (“...yeah, no! just go there! don’t try to read the About page, just read this Post! it’s about these people and these worldview things and…the thing of it is they are so right and I can’t stop seeing these scotts and clark and rogers…rogers!! do you have any idea how disturbing it is now whenever I drive past a bunch of guys riding bikes, wearing the kind of spandex that made Pat Benatar such a star… and just go there and let me know when you understand how any of this is going to be useful!“)

We all know that Tuesday is the day of the week that is most clarklike, right? The clue was right there in the Title, right? And by the associating of the word ‘mild’, you know have a spot-on assessment of the clarklike personality type, right?

Wrong.

Well, right about the ‘Tuesday is the most clark-friendly Day of the Week’, but t-wrong about the assessment of the clarklike personality type as being ‘mild’. Moderate?, fair… temperate?, sure, why not? even-tempered?, now you are straying… easy-to-get-along-with? getting colder… flat-affect, overly rational? ok…warmer… driven by a disconnected emotional aspect to find the way back home… yow! boiling !

Tuesday is the easiest-going Day of the Week. Rivalled only by Thursday on the lowered expectations scale, Tuesday is the day where you can believe in the promises of the work/school, even commit yourself to giving all to making the week a time of great accomplishment. Without the threat of an Exam (Friday) or even a pop quiz (Wednesday), Tuesday is the day where:

clarks relax

scotts wake up

rogers begin to get annoyed

If you were looking through the eyes of a clark…on a Tuesday morning…and the newspaper headlines read: ‘Meteor to Strike Earth on Friday, Extinction of all Life Certain!’ your reaction would be:

relief because the mess you made of your first serious relationship would finally stop bothering you (…hopefully)

excitement because now you don’t have to worry about having enough money to pay the mortgage

amused because you had a dream in which you felt loved and cherished by all and when you woke up you had a genuine emotional conviction that you were ‘a part of the family’

a sense of vindication because you knew that nothing really mattered

regret as you finally realized that people did not really care about how strange the inside of your head is, they only wanted to believe that you liked and appreciated them

Well, that was …interesting!

If the rogers and the scotts would form an orderly line (yeah, right) we will register each and every one of your objections to this Post.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 19, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

We’re gonna start the week’s Doctrine post series with some AP Wakefield Doctrine insights, courtesy of our diligent correspondent, Misky. In a comment at last Tuesday’s post, she say,

…which leads me to a person that explains a problem to the electrician in 200 words when 12 would do the same.

New Readers! the question our friend raises goes to the heart of the Wakefield Doctrine. It’s primary conceit, (in the good sense of the word), is to afford all those with the intellect, curiosity and desire to add to their respective realities an additional insight into the acts and behavior of the people around us (and the world that makes them up*). The Wakefield Doctrine offers and insight into three distinct ways to experience reality, as a:

clark (the Outsider)
scott (the Predator)
roger (the Herd Member)

Through the pages of this blog are a buncha descriptions of the characteristics of the above three predominant worldviews (aka personality types). Spend the time learning. Today’s post is designated as AP level as we are considering the Everything Rule.

ok! back to Misky’s Conjecture as to how verbosity relates to personal reality. Our invocation of the Everything Rule brings into play a key concept: manifestation. Specifically, how does giving instruction (to a trade or other non-related individual.**), manifest in the personal realities of clarks, scotts and rogers? As with the standard process of determining predominant worldviews, Misky has, in effect, thrown out one, (of the three), leaving us with a comparison to two seemingly identical actors.

btw: a scott tends to be less …loquacious than ‘the other two’ if for no other reason than in the world of the Predator, ya don’t need too much filigree on: Run! Run Away! Eat! Reproduce! Sleeeep! lol

As to verbosity in clarks and rogers:

the Outsider (clarks) are eternally curious. their lives being a search for the information that might enable them to become ‘a part of’. As such, all information has value. Combine this view with their tendency to want to share with others (yeah, half-thought-through protective coloration lol) and so will in our scenario provide more (information) rather than less. just ’cause
the Herd Member (rogers) are concerned, first and foremost, with the Herd. Everything in their world is connected (to the people and elements of this) and so, in the process of giving direction to an electrician, see no reason to leave out: the electricians that they have known, the people who have had bad experiences with the work under consideration and the fact, that as a person, all of this puts them in a position of being… well, a peer, to the expert they are now directing.

ain’t this Doctrine fun?

*lol a little reversal of our standard, ‘…the world around us and the people who make it up.’

** yeah, if related? way different conversation lol

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger 13 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution/participation-in/’whew!-made-it-another-week!’ as your host of the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. We’re glad you made it. While you’re here, if you’re a Reader, please consider dashing off a list of the ten things that come to mind (recently and/or really?!!? you still remember that? jeez the things the subconscious sticks in the ‘don’t leave this plane-of-existence without it), of people, places, things and events that elicit and otherwie jumpstart a sense of gratitude.

…for the Doctrine we submit:

1) Phyllis

2) Ola

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) from one of our favorite utube channels (chill dude explains) an episode on smells. two things he left out: mimeograph ink and newsprint though, to his credit he did have as number 2 (the smell of) bowling alleys.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) video of walking through the woods on a raw, rainy Saturday morning (so you don’t have to)

7) photo at the top of the post? Our first German Shepherd, Ola. One of our favorite Ola stories: when still a young dog we tried to give her a bath. Didn’t enjoy it. Fine, we tried. Another fact of life Ola did not find agreeable was that we both had to go to work, (in those days, remote offices). One morning we were all finishing our daily get-ready to leave for work routines and noticed our dog was nowhere to be found. Looked in almost every room. Finally, Phyllis opened the bathroom door and there was Ola, sitting in the bathtub. There was zero doubt in our minds that our dog was trying to open negotiations on our staying home. We stay, she’d submit to bath. Ola was that kind of dog.

8) something, something

9) as if the live-action video walk wasn’t convincing enough below is a still photo (with bonus feature of the progress Phyllis has made in her stacking of firewood0 of dead leaves on trees.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wait, what?! -the Wakefield Doctrine- …somehow, it’s half-past Friday and we haven’t written our Doctrine post

October 16, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

New Readers; the content in this blog consists of three categories: 1) Wakefield Doctrine posts Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays (being all things Doctrine), b) Six Sentence Stories (fiction for a bloghop run by Denise) posted on Thursdays and tres) the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) gratitude bloghop (with a difference) on Saturday hosted (currently) by yours truly, (link to last week’s TToT why not join us this weekend?)

So if you’re curious about this little personality theory thing of ours, those are the days to get the skinny* on the hows and whats of one of the most fun alternative perspectives on the world around us and the people who make it up.

In any event, we are fortunate in having Readers who write comments that more often than not suggest themes and topics for posts (and in recent weeks) series of posts devoted to the question.

Among them are Mimi, Frank, Misky and Denise (with occasional fly-bys by Friend-of-the-Doctrine Cynthia).

So don’t be shy with your Comments or Questions.

Closing out this week: we started with the topic of the reality of personal realities. Central to the Doctrine and fun to consider how each of the three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) grow up developing the perfect personality type…given the reality they experience. Then we went with a RePrint of the Doctrine’s origin story (the Eureka Moment)

As should be abundantly evident, we all have fun learning how to see the world from a peculiar angle. (You into people watching? You will love the Doctrine)

lets close this short post with the essential: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

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Wedezdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

from a Comment from Frank on yesterday’s post.

Since I wouldn’t want to mar the new equipment with a piece of tape, I would have shown the customer how to turn the dial. So, I’m not a scott. A roger might go into greater detail about how dials work than I would. I guess I’m a clark.

ok!.. your Comment provides our New Reader with a good set-up to illustrate how to determine a person’s (or your own) predominant worldview:

a) throw out the ‘no fricken way!’ personality type 2) now compare the remaining two worldviews, ‘side-by-each’ and decide which one provides the clearest/in-focused view of the world.

ProTip: here is where your reading pays off, i.e. sure, you know that ‘clarks abhor being in the spotlight but will not tolerate being ignored, but how does being in the spotlight manifest* for a roger?’ or ‘the Herd Member knows there is a correct way and a lot of other ways that are worse than being merely incorrect, but what does the Outsider think of their responsibility for a mistake on the part of another person?’ You do see where we’re going with this, don’t you?

Who said ‘It’s about how a person relates themselfs to the world around them, (and the people who make it up)?’ very good… but isn’t there something about this statement that really matters?

Yep! The ”…a person relates themselves…’ part. The Wakefield Doctrine isn’t all ‘7os pop psych, ‘oh wow, I can relate to that. …err man!’

The Wakefield Doctrine demands more from those who would advantage theyselfs of the insights it offers. To do this right, one perforce needs to understand, (as much as possible in the current moment), accept (as a working description of the world) and let this self-knowledge afford them the perspective on the other person.

So, our valued correspondent, Frank is (or should be asking himself): ‘What do I think about the solution to the problem of the ‘Misunderstanding Customer’ and immediately afterwards, ‘How do I feel about the lack of understanding of this equipment that this total stranger rudely demands an answer to the question, “Why doesn’t this thing work?”

lol

* reminder: ‘the Everything Rule’ states: ‘everyone does everything at one time or another‘ which simply means there is no exclusivity of actions, interests, sins, ideals and/or expertise among clarks, scotts and rogers… a thing may, however, manifest differently for each