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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 27, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

‘Open Book (oh boy!) Essay Questions (aww shit!) Doctrine Summer School Pop-Quiz’

Two assertions:

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid and rogers are dumb

clarks are heartless, scotts are cruel and rogers are mean

(We good so far?)

For Readers who might claim AP status in these, the four Doctrine posts of each week, you will do well to consider if you can sense/see/feel the intrinsic harmony among the above pair of triplets.

New Readers? You have the advantage. You are not yet burdened with an understanding (complete/comprehensive or not) of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine. And with that freedom, you are welcome to: lol, wtf?!?! ‘oh, I clearly made a mistake by coming here‘.

Supplementary Material (the Book in Open Book):

the three predominant worldviews are:

clarks (the Outsider) know they’ve missed a critical lesson of Life and, with just a hint, a partial list and/or inference, can re-assemble this information and use it to become a ‘real’ person. …before anyone important notices
scotts (the Predator) live to act and, in action, express themselves. it’s not what you do, it’s how loudly you do it
rogers (the Herd Member) confident in their understanding of the right order of life and the world, will, purely for extra credit, share the insight

Each of these three exist in a personal reality that conforms, supports and is natural to a certain relationship (between you and the world around you). Developing a social style/interpersonal strategy appropriate to the world, (as you experience it), you have the right personality type for what you’re up against.

Everyone does everything at one time or another. The world, (aka reality), is what it is…for you. If you know the world around you is organized and quantifiable, good thing you’re a roger! Otherwise you might forget where you put things or, worse, mix them up.

Question: Among the three predominant worldviews, why are the characterizations (above) different for each and what does that tell you about how they might experience: standing with you, across the street from a very popular and very busy restaurant at noon on a Summer’s Monday?

Compare and Contrast

Extra Credit!

Which do you prefer?

A) original version

2) if you don’t recognize the singer’s voice…. welcome Gen Z!

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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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Friday/Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

We’ll open the floor for questions.

ok. while you’re all organizing your thoughts (lol and the scotts and the rogers will fidget and scowl) what say we riff off of Frank‘s Comment

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?

One of? lol in one of our earliest Doctrine ‘How-It-Works posts we refer to them (other personality theories) as mirror-shaped clubs.

hokey smoke! we found (one of the posts) using that analaphor or smili-face… check it out

“You see, you start out with a little bit of oil. Then you fry some garlic.” the Wakefield Doctrine (…a personality theory for all sorts of people and situations)

December 9, 2013

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

“Hey, come over here, kid, learn something. You never know, you might have to understand the behavior of 20 people someday.”

No, I don’t think it odd that I am starting today’s Post with a quote from a famous movie. (If you know, without googling, what movie these lines are from, I will send you an official Wakefield Doctrine docTee!*) Most of the Posts that we write start with some totally random item from the world, however this is entirely appropriate, given the nature of the Wakefield Doctrine as a personality theory.

You know that the Doctrine is not really a personality theory, right? We have not (yet) delved into the matter of how we come to settle on one (of the three worldviews) as our predominant worldview. We don’t know why some of us have significant secondary and tertiary aspects and some are simply clarks… or scotts or rogers. We don’t even know what influences in the family structure are important! Birth order is kind of intriguing, but the worldview of the parents have little bearing on who goes to which worldview and, while evidence exists that is highly suggestive of a component of childhood trauma (of any type) as ’cause’ of one worldview being selected over the other, there is nothing anywhere near definitive. So what do we know?

Well, for starters we know that:

we all find our predominant worldview and we adapt to the nature of that world. as Outsiders, clarks become creative, learn to camouflage ourselves among the ‘normal’ children and set out to leave no information un-examined…in the hopes of learning to become ‘part of’; finding themselves in the world of the Predator, scotts do what comes naturally, run and play and search out their environment, they are the first to go into the abandoned building, first to kiss a boy and are comfortable in the principle’s office because they cannot walk away from a fight and finally, …the majority of children (between the ages of 1 and 4) look around and know that they belong, they are Herd members. not an easy gig by any stretch of the imagination. just as with any member of a team or a family or a congregation, they discover that there are Rules and not only must they be followed, they must be shown to others and that, for the rogers, the good of the many must be imposed on the few

while we all are predominately one (of the three personality types), we all have the potential of the other two. for reasons not yet fully understood, some clarks seem to come out of their shells at times, not at the behest of others, not because they want to, usually because there is a need to; scotts will often express a significant secondary aspect by demonstrating compassion to their prey, much to the confusion (of their prey) and chagrin to themselves, but they will ultimately over-come this by dispatching their victim or marrying them or setting out to right the injustices around them and rogers…poor rogers! a significant secondary aspect (of either sort) means nothing but dissatisfaction and dismay. they are in a world that should be ‘ordered and defined’, a world in which every one knows their place and worse, far worse, is that rogers (with a significant secondary aspect) have the misfortune to be able to see the sides of the box that is their perfect world

if you learn the principles of the Doctrine and the characteristics of the three worldviews and (if you) correctly infer the worldview of the other person, you will be in a position to know more about them than they know about themselves

if you practice inferring the worldview of the people around you, you will not only know why they behave the way that they do, but you will know what they will do, how they will respond to a situation or event that has not yet happened

if you have the desire, the Wakefield Doctrine offers a tool for changing that part, that aspect, those habits that you have always wanted to change but have either had no luck doing so or, far worse, you have succeeded at changing only to discover that you have somehow slid back to where you managed to move yourself away from

the Doctrine is fun…there are other people like you here, the cool thing is that you don’t have to risk guessing wrong who will ‘get you’

That’s enough for a Monday morning. Just remember this, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them. Unlike most of the personality quizzes and tests and free samples you see in magazines and on the internet, the Doctrine is not a mirror-shaped club. No matter how certain you are that the other person would benefit from this, it just doesn’t work that way.

..still a lot of fun, tho

(… man! the sun refuses to come out! only one thing to do, listen to this):

* some restriction apply. the Wakefield Doctrine docTee will be a roger and proof of a rogerian worldview required. Some substation permitted, spouse or children allowable…with the predominance of rogers comprising the human race, how hard can that be?

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 13, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Lets review:

The Wakefield Doctrine is an alternative perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. This perspective consists of three distinct, (but somehow interrelated), relationships one maintains with their daily, personal reality. While everyone is born with these three as potential(s), at a very early age, one, (and only one), becomes dominant. We then, as tiny babies, begin the process of learning, developing, practicing the wide range of persistent social strategies (aka personalities) for surviving, (and hopefully, thriving), in the world as we are experiencing it. Which insight convinces us of the following provocative statement.

We all have (the) perfect personality type.

The three ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine are:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

Each of these three reflect a different relationship with reality, (and the world and people and such). None of the three (personality types) are bad. None of the three are better than. (As one non-specified of the three, you might consider the three as a continuum. As another of the three you’d seize on that notion as an opportunity to argue about the overall validity of our little personality theory.)

Here is the most useful apophthegm*:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

*yeah, you could, if you learned the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to a comprehensive enough degree, divine which of the three personality types would be inclined to use that fairly obscure word for ‘short, pithy saying’ But then, you’d be wrong.¹

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid and rogers are dumb

because of ‘the Everything Rule’ which is not a ‘Get out of ‘no!-wait!-what-I-meant-was-I-really-do-understand’ card. It is, rather, a reminder to refocus on the effects of the character of one’s relationship to the people. places and things that make up ‘the world’.

So learn the character of each of the three relationships. Become so familiar with the manner in which the everyday presents itself to the three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine (aka becomes fluent) and you will know more about the other person (your spouse, your friend, the girl at the convenience store…whoever) than they know about themselves.

Which is not a bad thing provided you want to be able to…

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

Slow-typing Monday. Let’s not fight it, shall we? (lol)

Tool kit. Action Plan. Social Strategy

What is the value of the Wakefield Doctrine?

nah, too… Mutual of Oh Mama…let’s try this:

*explanations are to clarks as sex is to scotts and tradition is to rogers*

Better.

Got the patina of a morning-after Clearsil ya know? without being too ‘you can’t stay in bed all day’

(sad commentary when your Curator needs to warm-up in order to go looking for a RePrint post to brush-away all the white space on this Monday morning’s Doctrine post draft.)

ok…ok hold on (hey are we the only ones who have mornings when the ability to type vanishes like confidence when making a morning after telephone call?)

yeah…

here we go. (“Service Department, please. What? Sorry, wrong number.”)

Random Monday the Wakefield Doctrine (if this were organized like a real personality theory, you’d have to pay for it)

August 11, 2014

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

So we (Cyndi and Denise and yours truly) were talking on the WDSLDR Call-in this Saturday. The topic was, superficially, about rogers, but in actuality, it was about clarks.

…because, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them

we came to the conclusion that, prior to entering a new situation, most clarks prefer to know more (about the situation) rather than less. Sometimes this is a reasonable ambition, other times it is not. When it is not, clarks tend to retreat into their heads, in an effort to ‘figure out’ their best approach to the situation. Of course, this tactic will result in our clark not actually participating in the actual events. With this non-attentiveness to the reality we are in, our status of being the Outsider is totally assured. So, as we discussed on Saturday, how do you properly prepare for events that lie in the future and are therefore not completely knowable? (We rolled down the windows and yelled and hooted at a car full of kids from school going in the opposite direction.*) We were using, as the example of this principle, the new work situation that Cyndi was facing at the start of the new year. Most telling was that it was ‘knowing the people’ that she was going to be expected to work with (and in some cases, direct and manage). While we (Denise and me) were no help with the particulars of her work environment, it did occur to us that:

…with the Wakefield Doctrine, you (or me) or maybe just Cyndi, already knows everyone she is going to be working with, even if she has never met them before that first day… they will be clarks or there might be a scott there (probably not two, at least not in the same work environment) and a whole bunch of rogers. so, ‘fear of the unknown? not for this clark!’

We laughed, in part (or in whole), at the realization that, even after years of study, the Wakefield Doctrine still had new insights to offer!

Our conversation continued well past the normal cutoff time of the Saturday Night Drive (8:00 to 8:45 pm EDST). So, if you are in possession of a telephone next Saturday Night give us a call! It’s fun and informative and you will benefit!

with the insights afforded by an understanding of the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine, you will never need find yourself saying, “How could they say such at thing? I really thought I knew them better than that!”

…clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

rogers organize parties, scotts are the most sought after guests and clarks find themselves there, despite their best efforts to the contrary

You know that old aphorism …or chestnut or, ‘come here son, I have something about Life to tell you’, thing about ‘if you have a job that you need done, ask a…’? Well, the Wakefield Doctrine says:

if you need it done right as soon as possible and you don’t care how neatly, or carefully (or correctly) done it is……… ask as scott

if you need it done, don’t mind not getting credit for it being done and don’t care how long it takes to get done………. ask a roger

if you need it done and you’d rather be doing something/anything else and you don’t care if it is completely done (better than you had hoped) or completely done…….ask a clark