the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 25, 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 to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Every…err week, bloggers and thought-typers gather and share the people, places, things and events that have incited, inspired and instigated in us a psycho-spiritual state herein referred to as gratitude. The sharing in manifold, be it Reading the different posts…err posted or writing and linking a post of one’s own creation. It’s fun, simple and beneficial.

Following is the TToT list this week from the Wakefield Doctrine, et al.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) new fave utube channel (a celebration of clarks you would be forgiven for thinking) ‘Make Thing With Hand’ here is a sample post (language Advisory, but funny) ‘The pattern that exposes mammals’ past.’.

6) our property welcomes new fauna: Lynx rufus aka bobcat. So it’s like this, late yesterday afternoon, Phyllis looked out the window of her cottage and saw the bobcat walking down the path (top photo left to right). So, naturally she stepped out onto the patio and the bobcat in a most considerate stopped. Full Disclosure: on a previous occasion, the bobcat was strolling along and Phyllis stood in the doorway (sans phone camera, after all she is not 19 years old). The animal’s demeanor was calm (the bobcat, not Phyllis, ok, she was calm as well). Yesterday’s visit was the first opportunity to get a pitcha. So… taking Mia for her morning walks becomes a new opportunity to develop our mindfulness. (Though Mia would not be perceived as prey by most non-amphetamine-jagged bobcats. We will however be aware of our surroundings. As illustrated in Phyllis’ photo taken from the steps to her cottage, the bobcat appears to be well-fed, healthy and not looking to score.

a little closer you say? sure

7) informal landscaping project down at the pond (aka forgot to take Before photos)

8) something, something

9) Second thistle (in the side-yard meadow)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (From the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules)

music

in the spirit of Grat #6

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 22, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

working on some technical issues (with this here site here) …standby

whew! that was a relief… just needed to update a couple of apps in the site.

quick RePrint for one reason: a) it’s easier to continue to write than it is to start to write and 2) why not a post about blogs from the Doctrine perspective.

don’t forget! tonight is Wednesday the doors open on the Six Sentence Story bloghop. so be sure to head on down!

the Wakefield Doctrine: a unique, useful and fun approach to personality types…(it will allow you to successfully predict the behavior of other people)

July 10, 2012

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

…a mighty bold claim indeed! The Wakefield Doctrine can, in fact, predict the way that any given person will respond to common, everyday, life situations. With an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, what is puzzling (and aggravating!) about the behavior of the people in our everyday lives becomes totally clear, (maybe still aggravating…but clear!)
While the Wakefield Doctrine is a very useful, insightful and revealing approach to a subject that is always on our minds, it is not such a serious, difficult-to-learn Personality Theory. Rather ‘the Doctrine’ is a fun way to know more about your friends and family members and neighbors than you ever thought possible. Here in this blog, there are pages listed that will explain each of the three personality types, but it is/are the Posts where the fun is meant to be found. All of these Posts are, in a sense, a long conversation about the Wakefield Doctrine, where it came from, what it says about personality types and human behavior…how to have fun with it.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all live in one of three characteristic realities: the world of the outsider (clark), the world of the predator (scott) or the world of the herd member (roger).
We have descriptions of the common behavior exhibited by the three personality types. The goal, however, is not to just match the behavior to the person and then stop. Rather we look for characteristic behavior, then infer (from that) the nature of the personal reality that the person is living in and then we know way all about that particular person. If we have correctly inferred the worldview of the person (as being the world of a clark or a scott or a roger) we can predict how that person will react to any situation! Pretty cool, huh?

Enough of the knowledge, lets get to some of the fun!

(With apologies in advance to Jeff Foxworthy)

If you immediately stop surfing the channels because you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger

If you love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott

If you find a pamphlet stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.

Asked a question and you start your answer with “in the beginning…” you might be a clark.

Someone gets your name wrong and you answer to it without correcting them… you might be a clark.

As a child building model cars, you made sure that the extra parts were put back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.

You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark

You think that Borat was one of the funniest movies of the year…you might be a scott

You think that the 107 episode, Directors cut, 15 DVD un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes (including what he had for breakfast) and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger

If you have any inclination to wear hats for a fashion statement, or any clothing designed specifically for riding a bicycle (branded or un-branded)…you might be a roger.

You are at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including, but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.

If you are contemplating a project of any sort; building a deck for your house, writing a term paper or planting a garden:

…you look forward to making the list of things you need to buy/gather/acquire first more than anything else…you might be a clark

…you must know what your friends on the ‘do it yourself’ shows have done, that is what you want…you might be a roger

…CONTEMPLATE? PLAN? I JUST FINISHED IT! FUCK YOU ITS DONE NO THIS IS FINE THE WAY IT IS… you might be a scott

That will be quite enough for today. In conversations with the Progenitor roger and scott, I have maintained that the best new rock music is coming from the country guys… I wonder if Ronnie James knows that Jason seems to have appropriated a certain hand gesture…lol

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 21, 2026 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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

Wanna know the hardest thing about reaching a level of fluency¹ in the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine?

Seeing young clarks² out in the everyday world.

Seeing how this post is grounded in a emotional experience this morning, allow us to give the setting/setup.

For grocery shopping since ‘the Covid’ we’ve taken advantage of the local Stop’n Shop service of bringing the groceries to the car. Today we parked in one of the designated pickup spaces outside the main entrance. Picture a row perpendicular from the entrance, spaces opposite each other; a double row of cars, if you will. From where we were parked we had a direct view of the doors in and out. Fine. Usually the person who brings out the foodstuffs knows us and where we always park.

Today the person who wheeled the shopping cart out to the pickup area was a young male clark. Likely age: high school senior, college freshman*.

Thing about this morning was that in the pickup row there was one other car. And as it happened it was opposite mine. (Picture front bumper to front bumper).

The first thing (as he approached) was the look on the young man’s face: not fear, but concern at making the correct call as to which car was the one for the order he was delivering.

The last thing (as he finished his task) was the look on the young man’s face: not satisfaction, but relief.

(btw: upon my recognizing he was a clark and before he had to commit (to a car) I opened the trunk and waved. that’s the fluency thing. We identified him as soon as he stepped out through the automatic doors.)

Damn.

Sure, clarks think (and scotts act and rogers feel) does not mean that clarks don’t feel but, while we are free with emotions in the context of friends, the experience of seeing a clark exhibiting some of the less admirable qualities and …and! totally identifying with them can make us feel comfortable. If only the Wakefield Doctrine was available by private subscription to young clarks out there in their early, formative years.

1) fluency in the Doctrine: a level where you can ‘identify’ the other two without having to run a check list or otherwise compare observed behavior with examples of predominant worldview specific style of interacting with the world

2) the Wakefield Doctrine is, of course, gender neutral (among other qualities i.e. age, culture etc). How a person relates to the world around them is, in the most fundamental sense, as a lifeform first, then the other qualities. That said, there can be a heightened sense of identification with one who is the same personality type and the same gender.

* given he was a clark, the age range can be extended, say to college sophomore or… junior. Extra credit for anyone who can tell the New Readers why this age range is extended upwards rather than backwards

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Monday Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 20, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Monday ~~ReRun~~ …RePrint! Sounds just a scoosh more literate, no? 3,719 posts down and 4,444 more to go!

Frank asked a question last week to the effect of, ‘Why haven’t you developed a text a person could take…’ wait, what’re we doin?! It’s Monday, plenty of empty space, so let’s just c and p that badboy

One of the good things about the Wakefield Doctrine compared with all of the other personality theories is you don’t have to take a test to tell if you are an XYZ or an ABC. You pretty much know already. But I wonder if you have considered constructing such a test?

And… the answer was ‘Hide it in the manual’ Just being a bit facetious and calling in an old saying/adage/meme that has probably been around since the first group issued it’s first manual/SOP/Large Tome. You’ll either get the joke or you won’t, no great loss, not crazy funny. The punchline (since time immemorial: ‘Hide it in the User’s Guide.)

So, (damn! Pride Goeth Before the Fall, yo… all this just to avoid a total RePrint instead of writing something ‘original’)

Anyway the Answer to Frank’s well-intended question is ‘On the Landing Page’ as in: In a Hurry? …over here, answer these Questions (yeah, like a personality test).

But that’s not what was on our mind for a ‘jeez write something new(ish) today, will’ya?’

For some reason, the ‘Eureka Moment of the Wakefield Doctrine’ comes to mind, instead. Of course, seeing how we hide it on the Home Page under: About: the Wakefield Doctrine odds are it’ll stay hidden. lol

But we kid Readers, right?

The Wakefield Doctrine is a fun way to consider the world you’ll be walking through today. And, if you’re a fan of people-watching? You’ll definitely want to take along your copy of “The Doctrine’s Guide to clarks, scotts and rogers‘

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 18, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A gratitude ‘hop with a difference. All are invited to share the people. places, things and events that have inspired, registered as, incited a condition of gratitude. Willingly or not. All candidates for first-time participation are advised that there is one and only one condition for inclusion into the company of grat bloggers and that is ‘good intent’.

(That’s it on definition, explanation, qualification for taking part in this weekly exercise. Content? Format? Items? Freedom Hall, yo.)

That said, and despite what your parents said to your preadolescent-self the morning of your 2nd day in Junior High School (‘Middle School’ for those of you who are not… old) “Don’t worry you’ll fit right in, you have a lot in common with your classmates.”

Just to be on the safe-side, below is the Wakefield Doctrine’s TToT. (in case you finally realized that your parents were just being kind.) lol

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the photo above (between Grat #1 and Grat #2?) ….8 years ago! Here (in Grat #5…) the other day. Similar but different.

6) first bloom on thistle (n. dinosauri sticky-thornus)

7) another vid-walk?

8) something, something

9) Hypo-grat. With mid-Summer upon us, the appearance of creatures with way more legs than any lifeform needs. (Really, eight?! Four works for pretty much anything not flying and, not for nothin’, the human race gots only two and… apex predator yo. I will say, before I get a note from Mimi (the Overseerini of hypo-grats) tht fortunately the ones showing up on the lawn are… of a size. And simply put, there ain’t enough food in the house to sustain them for more than one American International matinee.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

* could stand to hear some vintage Tina S, ya know?