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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 30, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Slow start to the week. Let’s ~~employ~~ deploy some rhetorical caffeine, i.e. a RePrint post.

(We do, in fact, have several topics on the back-burner, courtesy of our various friends, Readers, students of and writers of note.)

but… (an old science fiction writer, who’s name escapes us…. sorry, how lazy of us! this is the fricken internet! (Internet Motto: “Lots of free diversions while the end of civilization is being completed! What do you mean. ‘Not So Funny’?)

While we’re on the topic of clarks… there’s a movie we recommend to clarks (and scotts and rogers, provided their secondary clarklike aspect is way strong): ‘Love Me‘ All we’ll say is, ‘Damn!’

ok! found the author Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner) the story: ‘The Proud Robot’. (thanks out to James Wallace Harris at ‘Classics of Science Fiction‘

Well, we’re a bit more on a tool-fabricating-level of sentience for the day… but since the post title does reference a RePrint, far be it from us to leave ya hangin’.

the Wakefield Doctrine: ‘you’re already practicing the core Principles, you might as well get something for all your efforts’ (…yeah, even some fun!)

March 25, 2013

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

The reason we say,  you’re already practicing the Principles is that, as a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine does not start with a person answering questions, filling out a survey or questionnaire, reporting likes and dislikes, lying about weaknesses and strengths, exaggerating the things others like and hate about us. No. In a funny, you-guys-really-are-weird kind of way the Wakefield Doctrine doesn’t really care what the individual thinks their personality (type) should or could or might be. Nope. This here personality theory here does not need to know that.
…as a matter of fact! You don’t even need to involve the person that you are about to know (better, in a way) than they know themselves. You see, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

But I’m getting ahead of us. We’ll come back to this ‘you mean I can know my boyfriend’s, my Teacher’s, my wife’s, my boss’s, my kid’s personality types and I don’t need to ask them to help?’ in just about a paragraph. First, the Principles that the Title of today’s Post says you are already practicing.

The Wakefield Doctrine is all about how a person relates themselves to the world around them. Notice the odd wording, I did not say, ‘how a person relates to the world‘. Because that’s only one dimension, in a sense a description of what happens as the person goes about their life. We say, ‘how the person relates themselves to the world around them’ because it is not simply a choice (about how to act, what to do, how to feel about it), it is reality. What we refer to as a worldview.
In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all live in a personal reality, aka our worldview. This means that my reality is different from yours. No, nothing weird… no screaming vegetables, nothing shooting across the sky, no flying without the help of technology, but different nonetheless. And it is the way our worldviews differ that we find the value and utility in our personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience the world from one of three ‘perspectives’, living in one of three worldviews, if you will. And what most people call ‘personality types’, we know as the appropriate behavior, given the world that a person finds themselves experiencing. (Remember! personal reality as in ‘real’ and ‘reality’ not  “just ’cause you felt like it, or I think I will choose to act like this, she deserves it….”) The three characteristic worldviews are:

the reality of the Outsider (clarks) not ‘because’, not ‘well, you should speak up more’, and definitely not ‘well if you didn’t act so weird, people would get to know you and you would have an easier time in life’ this reality is simply one in which you are here and ‘the world’ is out there. (For our clarklike Readers this last statement is sufficient, the rogers and the scotts might nod and look understanding, but will never get it)

the world of the Predator (scotts) of the three personality types, scotts can be the easiet to deal with- they are energetic and active, enthusiastic and mercurial helpful and very dangerous… the saying here is: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel’. scotts are the life of the party and the reason the police get called, scotts are your best friend until someone who they look up to shows up and then your life will be miserable , scotts are the neighbor who will lend you anything in his garage and help build your deck without asking and she is the neighbor with the well-behaved kids (at least they are when she is around, when she is not….ayiieee!), scotts are fun and tiring, loyal and seductive you have at least one scottian friend

the world as seen by a member of the Herd (rogers) are the reason we have civilization and they are the reason we have repressive societies. they are the personality type that lives in a world of emotion… not just moods and feelings, but where clarks think things and scotts act out, rogers manipulate emotion, in themselves and in the people around them. Ever encounter someone who makes you feel comfortable talking? ...roger  know anyone at work who is always in the center of things and knows all about everyone?… roger  ever find your husband/wife…boyfriend/girlfriend acting like they had no idea that you had a life outside the relationship? lol roger  there is a saying around here: without rogers humanity would still be out on the savannah with the scotts roaming in packs, feeding on the giant herds of rogers while the clarks dart among the low underbrush in a desperate attempt to stay alive long enough to invent opposable thumbs

These three worldviews are the ‘core principles’ of the Doctrine that you are already practicing.

Back to the Practical Value….and how you don’t need to involve the ‘other person’ and how this Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

Today. Observe the people in your life. Infer which of the three worldviews they appear to be acting from, test this against the descriptions of each of the three personality types that you will find throughout this blog. Once you know which the other person is, you will know why they are doing the things that they are and because you know this, you will have the choice of how you would respond, how you feel about what they do, how to shape the message if you need to get them to do what you want. In other words, you will have more freedom of choice than they do.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 28, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

hey, random memory* of product as fun to see as eat *yeah, that should be more disturbing than it is

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. This is (imo only) an very healthy exercise in both perception and perspective. It is well known, (to the point of axiomata*), that the emotional tenor of our relationship with the world around us (and the people who make it) can make the world in terms of health and well-being.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) is it us or do these two pine trees look even greener than green? (Full Disclosure: ok, not the screaming green, in this photo that I choose to believe I saw in person

5) comments from Friends of the Doctrine including Mimi and Misky These comments, opinion, insight and suggestions all serve to help us stay relevant when we write our Doctrine posts (pretty much every Monday-Wednesday). Yeah, better don’t go looking for how long ago the word ‘relevant’ was in circulation. lol

6) helpful reminders from Hostinae cai as we approach the last of the current batch of links (to the scheduled TToTs) she was thoughtful enough to sent us an email

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

8) something, something

9) work on the pond (no ‘before’ only after photos; your curator is, after all, a clark) Fortunately we have a significant secondary scottian aspect which meant bringing along our chainsaw to climb on the branches of the storm-fallen tree to remove the threat to the pond, i.e. blocking the channel to allows the pond to fill when the adjacent river is at the right level.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word

music vid

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W Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 25, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

we don’t normally do a ‘caption this’…but as a result of a search for images: Socratic Method’ is this image. Seriously, who doesn’t want to magic marker the figure at the far-right, “Jesus Christ… enough with the ‘Let me ask you this…”

so, thanks again to the Comment section for a topic for the ‘mildest day of the (work)week’, Tuesday.

Specifically, Mimi for her Comment on yesterday’s Post:

It’s not a matter of wanting to change, or be like others, it’s a matter of being able to relate to them on their terms when needed, and it’s needed a lot.

All kidding aside, our Friend of the Doctrine points to the linchpin of the process of using the Doctrine as a tool, as opposed to a party trick.

New Reader Warning: The following is totally AP Doctrine Theory and Practice. Which means: check your work. You’ll be expected to grade your own test. More critically, and this applies to the implication of Point 2 below, while it is true that when it comes to the Wakefield Doctrine, ‘you can’t get it wrong’…. you totally can diminish the efficacy and value of it as a tool for your ownself.

Two things: three people? potentially three personal realities. three realities? three different manifestations of the same experience. three manifestations? three different forms of the message.

Fine.

But…but!! Being curated by a clark, one thing jumps out at us: a) we all have access to a trilingual dictionary and, with effort, practice and diligence can learn the native language of ‘the other two’ and; 2) if we are trying to translate what we hear them say into our native language, we are, perforce, confronted with the opportunity to look objectively at what ‘we think we mean.’ To/of thine ownself be learnin’

ten four, eleanor

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Twosday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

sure, we got a last minute reprieve from the Dentist (wrong day… god’s way of smiling on his more intractable creatures), doesn’t mean we don’t need to post a Post today.

from the Archieves

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)

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 the 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. Thing was he kept coming back into the room where I was talking to the scottian woman. 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 into 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, (which 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?

* it was a meeting with transitioning tenants. I was there to make sure everything was being left as it should (by the parties leaving), so, not necessarily an adversarial interaction. That said 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, striving 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