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March 25, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

We went searching for a RePrint post. We found one. It looked different. We felt a vacuum-breath of fear*. Mostly ’cause one of our trusted online systems decided to upgrade and improve their security so we had to re-establish our credentials.

The fear?

Two words: scrutiny.

Hey! yeah, last week we did a couple of clarks vs scotts vs rogers experience lists… lets do ‘fundamental, existenial fears’.

clarks fear scrutiny, scotts fear irrelevance and rogers fear shunning (by the Herd)

well that was kind of…brief

remind us Friday to respond to Mimi and Misky’s recent comments.

thats un savoureux petit Doctrine, miam miam

January 21, 2011

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

Lets talk.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a ‘theory of personality’ the same way that your grandmother or mother (or wife or husband) is a chef. What they can do is produce food that you and your family look forward to eating and of course, everyone enjoys and benefits from their efforts both as food and (as) a social occasion. Not only that, your husband or wife or boyfriend or grandmother uses most of the same tools and ingredients and equipment that Le Cordon Bleu chef will use. Both will work with food in a kitchen environment that is essentially the same and (all) produce meals that are good and good for you, the only difference:

your grandmother will never be on television, your mom will never write a book that will be found in bookstores, your wife or your husband will never have a meal named after them (on the menu of a restaurant).

Who is the better cook?

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

Do not think that we are apologizing for our grandmothers or our lack of empirical date (supporting this here theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, here). We are not. But just because the techniques and tricks and recipes of your “family chef” have certain limitations, does not preclude us from being determined to try and rise above the confines of the ‘novelty blog’ category with the Wakefield Doctrine. Point in fact, it is the goal of all involved with this blogsite to take what we have learned about human personality and behavior and, with no small amount of chutzpah, put it in front of as many people as possible. Our very immodest intent is quite simply to get people to see the world through the lens of our little Doctrine.

There is no “WHY?” question here. (The only possible answer would be, “Why not?”) To take that approach would have the fault of being un-necessarily modest. Our intent is, with all of the means available to us, presenting/promoting/publicising/pushing the Wakefield Doctrine in order to have some effect on the world, if only 30 or 40 people worth. Maybe more than that, (perhaps 300 or 400) people will read about this thing and find the same usefulness that we do and these people will benefit from having come to this blog and learned about our ‘theory or personality’.
But hey, everyone starts out as someone’s son/husband/brother/grandson/girlfriend/yeah,they used to live right down the street before they turned into a celebrity or an authority or a mover or a shaker (the Hollywood variety not the Pennsylvania type).
Take Martha Stewart (…”please”) she was someones mother at a point in time prior to becoming a valued NYSE listed commodity…might have been your mother, but probably not. She was Alexis’s mother

Be that as it may. Lets take a quick look at our “cookbook” so that our more credential-dependent Readers can continue to enjoy this blog and still get something useful from your visit today.

clarks: quiet but always manage to get noticed, introspective but aggressive, creative and intellectual yet capable of blindingly stupid stubbornness when they believe they have an understanding of the situation;
scotts: free-spirited extroverts who feed on the discomfort of others, natural leaders who inspire confidence and will spring into action regardless of how ill-conceived the action or ill-prepared for the unexpected they might be;
rogers: precise and exact and they would have invented OCD (if it had not already existed), sociable, likable and prone to extreme prejudice, with the right tools they will build the infrastructure of the civilized world just so they will have people to pass judgement on

Thats a pretty basic set of ‘recipes’ or down-home culinary technique, isn’t it?
Don’t you think your grandmom had fun teaching your mother to cook on cold winter evenings? The food at your house? doesn’t it taste as good as the food you could learn to prepare by spending 5 years in a culinary school? No? You think the chef, by virtue of all their formal training is better off?

*hey, if no one else has already coined this expression** the Doctrine claims it this morning,

**rogers don’t count without verifiable objective proof of prior use

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, relationships, self-development, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

Friday Wrap-up -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 20, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Good week of Practical Application Doctrine posts, no?

In Monday’s post we recall¹ that clarks are born old. The takeaway being: ‘it’s ok to relax and give yourself a break from the stress, but being old is not the worst thing’. (Ask any young scott in troubke for driving their initials into the grass of the high school football field or answering the questions to a weekly test she had not a clue the answers were…in lipstick). We’re just saying, the older (i.e. accrued birthdays) we clarks get, the less inclined we tend to indulge in frivolity (for frivolity’s sake and fun, too. you remember fun, right?)²
Tuesday: a fun little RePrint on the topic of scotts.³

Wednesday’s post, well, you see the photo at the top? the three people? It is said, that with a good enough heart and the willingness to throw off the chains of reason, why-can’t-you-just-be-not-so-strange-for-once and/or be reasonable, you could re-create the whole of the Wakefield Doctrine on the basis of the image alone.

No! Really! We believe that and if you’re still reading, you do as well (ok, maybe not stand up and say it, but there is a little, quiet(ish) voice in your head saying, ‘There is something so familiar about those three.”

So, here’s the thing. With a certain degree of discretion, tell ever one to come here and read the Wakefield Doctrine. (Not such a wild suggestion, given that Readers are clarks or scotts and rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspect. Discretion is kinda mostly all of valor.

1. the thing about this Wakefield Doctrine? It allows that, while the relationship we maintain with the world around us designates our ‘personality type’, there is nothing inherent in the world of one personal reality and not the others. What that means is that when, as so often we do, look to theories and understandings of personality to change, develop and improve the quality of our ‘tenure’ we have nothing to learn.

…but everything to remember, aka accept

2. current post excepted

3. yes, in the back, Miss M? Well, not to spoil it for your classmates, but no, we don’t think we’re not being fair…scotts are, well, just easier to write about.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Established in 1866 by a charwoman’s daughter in an attic apartment on Thrawl St in East London, it has been published continuously since. (Well, allowing for a certain fallow period, awaiting the technology required to make the TToT a household, wait, this quote better says it: ‘Familiar in his mouth as household words‘ ) So, join us with a list or, simply, with your attention as we band of bloggers share a recitation of the people, places, things and events that make us feel grateful.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the momentary lapse in the crushing Winter, earlier in the week when it got into the seventies…degrees….Fahrenfrickenheit!

5) DST Daylight Savings Time (no, it doesn’t mean those ants among us can store it away for next late-November/deep-December) …but still

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) 21st C technology and the Wakefield Doctrine see: Yesterday’s Doctrine post.

8) A lot less snow than at the writing last week’s TToT

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)

music

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…end of work-week wrap-up”

March 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Well, that was fun! (This week’s installment in the Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, that is.) Plus we had Comments from FoTD, Cynthia and Misky, Mimi and Denise.

So… Friday, huh?

note the date. After reading the Post, we looked above the Welcome to.. and thought, damn… in the ’20s. Then, like an apologetic childhood monster from fever dreams (back when/at an age getting your temperature was so not as easy as today),the sound of multiplication tables moved up the 1:00 am hallway, (which, at his point in the dream by virtue of the malign manipulation of time, space and fear had become at least 100 yards long to the closest non-threatening bedroom)… Math sez, it sez, “I hate to be the one to tell you this (“My god!! Math is a roger!!!)… but that was Six Years (carry the zero) Ago.”

Well, we will work on this week’s TToT and peek around the corner of this Friday.

Damn! Fridays used to mean something. It had a Power, like a benign despot, promising things it had no right to convey, yet as a citizen of the world of ‘what will be will be’… we accepted it. In return for a sense of …. the world making sense.

I repeat, Damn! No wonder we find time travel such a productive vehicle when creating fiction.

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2020

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

There’s an old saying, “Fridays are the Monday-mornings of living a full and satisfying life.”

Why the love-hate relationship between clarks and the most looked-forward-to day of the workweek?

Consider that your homework.

New Readers! While our subscriptioneers get busy organizing their notes, and make sure they have enough yellow-highlights, clear-plastic rulers, No.2 pencils and, to be ready to take the assignment-completion-process up to the next level, a supply of three-by-five index cards; (Of course, there’s a cork board and little colored pins!), lets go for a quick tour of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine starts out with three different (yet intricately interrelated) predominant worldviews. ‘Predominant worldview’ is the preferred term denoting personal reality writ large. While scraping the guardrails in terms of a distinction between what an individual’s subjective reality is and the proposition that the whole, yeah, everything, world that is considered ‘reality’, knowing the differences between the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine are essential to deriving the benefits of this unique, fun and quite useful perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.*

We’re born with the possibility of having one, (of three), predominant worldviews being established (the the ‘other two’ becoming secondary), and thereby being our ‘reality’. It (the predominant worldview) shapes, influences and serves as the context in which we develop the tools and strategies that shape our subsequent relationship with life …and such.

The three are:

the reality of the Outsider(clarks)

the world of the Predator(scotts)

the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

If discussed in terms of personality types, the above are the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. For the Doctrine, personality type is not an assignment or a categorization based on a how many of a number of predetermined characteristics, traits or inclinations an individual demonstrates. Personality type is, for the Wakefield Doctrine, a description of how a person relates themselves to the world around them.

Learn the characteristics of the three, ask the question: “How is this person/how am I relating themselves/myself to the world around?”

The cool and fun part is the accuracy of the descriptions of the three ways to relate to the world.

There’s a bunch more to learn, but…. today is Friday. So have fun on the weekend.

* total, long-running, and favorite play-on-words here at the Doctrine… (and a totally obtuse reference to the ideas on reality as Carlos Castaneda so elegantly presented in his writings, i.e. reality is perception and the players contribute to the script, to mix as many metaphors and rhetorical devices as possible… ya know?)

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Tutor Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

As abundantly clear by this post’s primary image, today is Tutor Tuesday. Implicit in this somewhat aged cultural reference is an age requirement which you are encouraged to ignore. That said, for max amusement, your birthday must not only be from the 19oos, it must be the mid-1900s for you to attend.

As with most of our better Doctrine Posts* today’s is prompted by Friend of the Doctrine, Misky who responded to Monday’s Post with the Comment:

I’m not afraid of being incorrect. Wrong is a different kettle of fish. My answer; final answer is the girl is a Clark. That was the question, right? Hmmm … maybe I should re-read this. Nah.

Shall we begin?

…oh yeah, did we mention this is an Open Book, and…and I believe we also said in our Reply something about Self-Grading. oh yeah… any effort to determine a stranger’s predominant worldview is invaluable practice…

We’re totally sincere in the saying that, despite how aggravating it may have been to certain among us, back in school daze to see the Exam Notation: SHOW YOUR WORK. We totally embrace that directive. It is in hearing the ‘Why’ a person feels the subject is a clark or a scott or a roger not only enhances our understanding but it’s just pretty much the fun of this exercise.

New Reader! In case there is a roger among you who snuck into this AP class; one word: ‘No, if everyone’s opinion of the predominant worldview is equal, that does not mean that any/every Answer is possessed of equal validity.’

The cool thing about the Wakefield Doctrine and it’s use is that it is entirely self-correcting. If you ‘get it wrong’ then the benefits inherent in the application of it’s principles (not the least of which is: to know more about the other person than they know about themselves) simply are not there to enjoy. Usually such a person decides this stupid thing doesn’t work anyway and they wander off. Not a problem. For the rest of us? If we hear a scott or a roger cite evidence for the determination of a person’s predominant worldview, (in this case the photo yesterday) it is to our benefit. After all, we’re a clark and they are not. quid pro quo non serviam. I learn about their personal reality. Win Win, binyons!

Wait!! Wait!! Before we begin what we’re sure to be a spirited discussion in the Comments section we have a visitor! An alumnae, if you will from the distant Before Time. We’d be the entirely gracious and organized Narrator if we offered her background, maybe offer a link or two to posts in the Archives, but given her predominant worldview¹, kinda coals to Newcastle. Jennifer? Jennifer Katherine Wilson? (the blogger formerly known as Miz AKH)

* a post written to explore, explain, extrapolate and otherwise enjoy the core principles of the Wakefield Doctrine**

** which can be succinct’d down to: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

‘though we’d expect ever one here to embrace the preferred politeness of ‘One simply does not state another’s predominant worldview, at least not unless they have already self-identified or it is, otherwise, general and/or common knowledge.’