psychology of personality | the Wakefield Doctrine psychology of personality | the Wakefield Doctrine

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of existentialism and re-ordering the books on a shelf.”

May 12, 2025 By 8 Comments

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

A fair amount of items left un-checked on the yellow lined pad today’s beginning. Let’s get all bullet-point on this here post here.

  • the Wakefield Doctrine
  • the Saturday Night Drive (yeah, does kinda relate to Reader Question 1… damn! foreshadowing in a frickin bullet point list)
  • Reader Question 1 Answer (for New Readers)
  • Reader Question dos (tune in tomorrow!)

That’s enough of a ‘Hey! Welcome back, how was your weekend and there’s a list of stuff to do.’

The Wakefield Doctrine is one-half tool, one-third crib sheet and four-fifths alternate perspective. The Doctrine holds that we, all of us, are born with the potential to relate to the world around us in one of three distinct (yet not wholly disparate) ways. These relationships are:

  1. Outsider (clark) never a part of. at least never to the extent that one can avoid: “Monday morning! Best get up and see what’s waiting in the world out there.”
  2. Predator (scott) Monday ain’t nothin’ but a freshly-printed Menu. Somedays it’s all you can eat, others: “Be mindful of the… calories! Always hunt and eat/run and survive, seize the moment.”
  3. Herd Member (roger) “A turn of the Wheel, another beginning. The better to feel the Herd in all things. The better to learn to appreciate the Rightness of the Herd.”

Good conversation on the weekly Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Call-in. Denise was on the call and at one point the topic was the importance of remembering the basics: learn the nature of the ‘other two’ predominant worldviews, practice and work on fluency. Fluency, in this context, means to cut down on the amount of unpleasant-time thinking: ‘Why would they say/do/forget something like that?’ and/or ‘Holy shit! That was pretty intense.’

The stated ambition of this blog is to help others to achieve a fluency in the three personality types to such point as to allow us: ‘To see the world as the other person is experiencing it.”

Reader (Misky) Question numero One:

Oh, and one more thing: Why is it called Wakefield?

Here is a parietal (lol) reprint from August 2013. There is, at least on old maps, an actual Wakefield, Rhode Island. Technically, it is a village in the Town of South Kingstown, RI. This is a historically semi-accurate depiction. We did often drive through Wakefield (and bordering Narragansett, RI) on a Saturday night discussing the meaning of life and other topics common to our demographic. [ed. Cast notes: Glenn is a scott with a significant secondary clarklike aspect; Clark went on to accept the position of Curator, donning the plubistically-monastic 3rd person pronouns)

INT.      LATE MODEL GERMAN LUXURY CAR –      NIGHT

Clark and Glenn are in animated discussion, it is clear that the topic is one they are both very, very familiar with and they are covering old ground

CLARK

Blah, blah blah…I know and you know and I know that the theory is valid and way, way more useful than most of the crap that you use for your trainings. When are you gonna incorporate it into one of your modules?

GLENN

Hey, I know its useful I been in this car listening to you for the last 15 years, haven’t I?

CLARK

So what’s it gonna take to do something with this thing…what do you need to take it on the road? Hell, I know you are already stealing parts of it in your presentations

GLENN

Credibility. Thats what it needs…If I go out there in front of my Board of Directors and say, ‘this new module is based on ‘the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’ they will laugh…

CLARK

Yeah, but…it works… it is useful…

GLENN

…And it sounds like it came out of a dorm room…from the 70s. I work in a corporate environment…credibility, empirical…metrics…you hearin this?

CLARK

I get it, I get it…fine! then I’ll change the name…you want credibility?…from now on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is…the…Doctrine, the Wakefield Doctrine!

GLENN

Fuckin yeah!

 

[end of scene]
Share
Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: ,

Impromtu Wednesdu -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 7, 2025 By 5 Comments

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

(hold on, gotta this thing down ‘on paper’ before we lose the thread. ...it takes creativity to recognize a manifestation of creativity. there! …sorta)

Let’s see how we did.

A Comment on our contribution to jenne and ceayr‘s bloghop, the Unicorn Challenge from last week is the set up for today’s post. It blew-up in our head when reading a comment from Violet on our contribution to last Friday’s prompt. Actually, now that we reflect on the sequence, it was our Reply to V’s comment that ignited this, “ooh!! ooh!!…” response.*

Violet wrote:

Is this what they call lascivious dreaming? Because if that’s not the case, I am going with you drugged my drink.

We replied:

…What a nice thing to say!**

*You intuitively know that not only do different people hear the same thing differently, but the reality of the thing (said) is not ever exactly the same
** and an implied compliment to everyone’s favorite personality theory… of the three types, not only is one the source of genuine creativity…. wait a minute! you just provided an err won’t use the more giant word ‘inspiration’ (we’re just the curator and All)… lets say, topic!
cool

New Readers: A couple of things you might want to jot down. (Not doing a full ‘old lecturer warning of exam questions’ schtick) but… that first asteroid refers to the fundamental belief required in order to enjoy the Wakefield Doctrine, to wit, ‘reality is, to a small but discernible degree, personal.’ ok? the second ** follows and is the insight inspired by our correspondence.

With the ‘Everything Rule’ firmly in mind, we will state that the quality/characteristic/ability…and, what-the-hell, capability to manifest creativity is different for each of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine:

  • the Outsider (clarks) exhibit genuine creativity. we mean that what clarks do is to bring into the world/existence that which had not existed prior
  • the Predator (scotts) make us believe we are seeing something that we’re amazed by and are (pretty sure) is incredible but that’s because we don’t yet know to look behind the curtain
  • the Herd Member (rogers) are remarkable in their ability to re-assemble known and everyday parts of the world in pleasing (and sometimes, quite satisfying) forms.

Well… that is mostly what we had in our head when the idea began to coalesce.

One take away: clarks always understand. they may be as wrong as the thing they understand, but they always understand.

 

*think you old? reference is from ‘Welcome back Cotter” yeah, that old.

Share
Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: , , , ,

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 19, 2025 By

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

The Weekend Landscaper’s Universal Sign of Distress (lol)

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is a list of the people, places, things and events (yeah, you might say that ‘events’ qualify as ‘things’ and thereby allow us to retain the original expression. But we didn’t. Seeing as you’re still reading, allow us to introduce you to the hostinae of this here bloghop here. Being far more … nor-mal and emotionally-developed (i.e. mature and capable of responding on a level of interpersonal sophistication higher than our), ‘Yeah? Well We’re rubber and you’re glue. Like that horse you rode in on.‘  err… our hostinae:  Mimi, Dyanne, Denise, Misky, Lisa and Kristi. They will be better able to convey the intent of this ‘hop. Share the gratitude you experience and it is then multiplied in others.

ya know?

For the Doctrine:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see Grat 8 below)

4) Closed on my upstate listing. No more Friday inspection trips. Alas, that means no more driving past the Port of Providence. Elimination of any further opportunities to paraphrase one Mr. Mix-a-Lot’s admission into our current favorite bon mots, i.e. ‘I like big boats’.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge

7) work in the woods (as opposed to wood-working or working the wood) photo of first phase:

8) Hey, couldn’t manipulate the word ‘Wagon’ (photo in previous Grat), into any humorous form (the closest we got was the theme of ‘Wagon Train’ but no one reading this is old and alive enough to have direct memory thereof. So, instead we got Vince Gill and Albert Lee (see video below).

… Hey! Wait a darn minute! That vid!! For TToT gratitioneer, Cai,  you know how we say the three personality types of the Doctrine can be observed manifesting differently in three people doing the same thing? The three featured guitar players in the video are Vince Gill, James Burton and Albert Lee. Guess what? roger, scott and clark (respectively)…

Simple, impromptu study guide:

  • the clark (Albert Lee) is easiest to identify: the guy with the unfashionably long hair and the bad posture … so clarklike;
  • the scott (ProTip: with scotts? the guy in the black shirt who gets introduced and plays the first solo, (the eyes of a scott, unmistakeable always alert)
  • finally that leaves the frontman (Vince Gill) as the roger. affable, easy going and confident)

See how much fun the Wakefield Doctrine can be?

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

music vids

*

*

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Share
Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: , , ,

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the gods look down in anger…’

March 28, 2025 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

A word-count constrained imagination contest* hosted by jenne and ceayr, the prompt is an image and the only limit is ‘tell your story in under 250 words’.

 

The evening’s whispers, like mountain streams, manifested their true power in the endless variety of sound as they tumbled towards the sea. Never a single voice. Rarely even similar timbre or tone. Yet mountains fell and oceans filled.

“Fuck ’em,” a smile like a shadow growing on a series of X-ray prints found voice, “If that was in Latin, they’d listen.”

As is the nature of even the most high-borne soliloquies or alcohol-engendered bravado, the words were cast to an empty house, footlights of a hand-crafted stage obscuring all but the highest-proof perspective.

Lifting the broken glass, the man, his girth an ironic filigree to the delicate touch of tobacco-stained fingers, held it up to the light in search of shards that might disturb even his thirst.

“My kingdom for a whore!”

Chin thrust, shoulders hunched, the drunk dared the empty barroom to duel.

The barman held open the door, Charon waiting to complete the journey begun in the light of a challenging day at work. The pride he proclaimed in ‘showing those management morons’ now resignation to the 3:00 am kingdom of empty streets and hopeless dark.

Hearing the door close behind him, the man pressed the broken glass, scepter of a kingdom found and lost in eight hours, to a bloody grip oer his noble profile and stumbled into the endless pre-dawn night.

 

 

Share
Filed Under: Fashion Center Tagged With: , , ,

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Gonna write a little letter, gonna mail it to my local D.J. …”

March 4, 2025 By

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

Tuesday. While each day of the week is associated with one of the three personality types and a couple, like multi-associated. (Go! Everything Rule!) Some are totally owned (by a particular predominant worldview).

Tuesdays. clarks.

Don’t ask us why.

lol

No, serially, don’t.

Some things (ok, a lot of things) about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, are in the Realm of the Subjective. Remember how, at the beginning of this blog we described the typical fan/follower as being: intellectually fit, confident in the value of additional perspectives and totally a fan of the odd and unusual side of reality? Yeah, we said that. Look it up.

In any event, mention Tuesday to any Friend of the Doctrine and you’ll hear:

  • yeah, finally! a day without pre-established debt to the world… whew! no rush
  • lol fricken clarks…
  • well, you’re certainly entitled to one day. I don’t think many people would take issue with that. as long as you don’t get carried away with it

Lets go rummage. What’s the point of having endless cardboard boxes of old books and comics and un-assembled model cars and whatnot if you don’t take the phone off the hook*, empty one or two on the floor and see what you can see?

*New/hypo-aged Readers? The expression, ‘take the phone off the hook’ harkens back to the day of two-piece telephones (like the one at the top of the post). If you did that, it wouldn’t ring. (Though it would make a couple of total-movie-meme sounds before going quiet. Including a recorded message that became the working title of our first attempt to write a full-on story. So there is that.)

RePrint:

Too(s)day the Wakefield Doctrine ( “I think Tuesday is the cutest (of the) Workdays! …like a 2nd date, so full of promise, yet such a potential source of suffering!”)

November 11, 2014

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)images-37

so, yesterday we wrote a Post that was built on the following promise:

So here’s what we’ll do: I’ll write a couple of hundred words about the value and use of the Wakefield Doctrine on a typical Monday morning. I’ll stop writing, take a quick shower, get dressed and start my work day2. After an hour or so of work, I’ll come back here and ‘re-write’ this post. Let’s see if this ‘oh-my-god-can’t-you-see-how-incredibly-useful-and-fun’ theory of personality accounts for any change in my day.3

Fine. I’ll tell you about my day and the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine. I won’t attempt to re-write yesterday’s Post, for the obvious reasons. (Actually all I want to do is try and come up with something clever (and a touch risqué ) about character of Tuesday). But promises are promises (unless they are threats, and then you need to be more careful of clarks than scotts or rogers by a long shot!)

In the middle of the day yesterday, I had occasion to interact with people I had never met.*
I walk up to the front door, (noting that a person was coming towards the house from across the yard), and knocked on the door. a scott answered. I knew she was a scott from: a) her eyes** and 2) she smiled and stepped forward at the moment of introduction,  ‘Hello, I’m clark from….’  ( I laughed to myself and thought, ‘god! I loves this Doctrine’ …and increased the volume of my voice, shortened my sentences and cranked-up my (level) of eye contact.) The meeting went well.
The person I noticed walking across the lawn towards us? (who I ignored because I needed to establish a relationship with the dominant personality)  another scott! (he was there to help with the move…) he had no legitimate role in the interaction,  but he kept coming back into the room where I was talking to the scottianwoman.  lol ( you ever watch a bunch of puppies playing as a group? one is always trying to establish ranking***  that’s what this guy was doing. He walked in to the house, didn’t introduce himself by name, (because he was a member of her pack and therefore not alpha), but nevertheless was trying to see if he could establish dominant ranking on me  (it would have enhanced his relationship with her, of course).  I mean you could see the energy as he walked, pretended to be a part of the conversation, walk away and then come back in…. I did not allow myself to be distracted… it was fun to watch.

Anyway…. that was my Day-with-the Doctrine.

Tuesdays… your favorite Day of the Workweek?

Tuesday: as a Day of the Workweek is the best of all days because
View ResultsCrowdsignal.com

 

* it was a meeting with transitioning tenants, I was there to make sure everything was being left as it should (by the parties leaving), not necessarily an adversarial interaction, but the potential was there, as I was representing the interests of the owner of the property and the people I was dealing with were representing their own…

** new Readers?  not such an impressive deduction… a primary identifier of the scottian personality type is in the eyes, ‘the gaze’ to be more succinct  (read more on the Page on scotts… suffice to say, ‘a scott is never not paying attention to what’s going on around them’)

*** another primary characteristic behavior of people who live in the world of the Predator… the drive to ranking, trying for dominance, but not attaching importance to being the alpha, as much as it is necessary to know where one stands… the pack social order

*

Share
Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: , , ,
« Older Posts