How To Totally Understand the Behavior of the People in Your Life

At the Wakefield Doctrine blogsite, a Readers's first visit usually coincides with a question that this (Reader) has long been harboring. And as questions go, it is one that nearly everyone who reads this Post can identify with, the question being:
"What will it take for me to be able to understand the behavior of the people in my life?" This is most often qualified with the statement, "Sometimes it is very clear to me why ( a particular person will act a certain way), but most of the time I am ripping my hair out".

If this sounds like you, then rest assured you are not alone. (Actually, you are alone because in all probability you are a clark. But that getting way ahead of ourselves, you are not ready for a simple truth like that.) Lets just say, for the most part, the average person feels that even though they believe they know the people in their lives very well, despite this understanding, nevertheless at one time or another we all seem to end up saying, "Why on earth would they do that"?

This hub is being written with the express purpose of letting you, the Reader, know that there is a simple way to be free of the stress created by the people in our lives, and that way is to apply the Wakefield Doctrine 3 personality types to your life.
Simply put, by knowing the personality type of the other person and by being aware of your own (personality) type, you will be able to understand that which has long been a mystery to you. With the knowledge and understanding that is available to those who learn about the Wakefield Doctrine, why people act the way that they do will be immediately clear. And if that were not enough, with the insights afforded by the Doctrine you will be in a position of accurately predicting how people will act and (re)act in virtually any situation.

Not too shabby, eh?

This Wakefield Doctrine that we speak so highly of, well it holds that all people develop into one of three 'personality types', clarks , scotts and/or rogers . If you know which (of these three) a person is, you will not only know why they behave the way that they do, you will be able to predict their actions and reactions to pretty much any of life's varied situations.

Oh, yeah...did we say that knowing what type you are is totally necessary to getting the benefit from this 'personality theory'?
Well, consider it said.
Perhaps a little recapit of the basic premise of the Wakefield Doctrine will help us at this junction.
The Doctrine maintains that all people have certain 'predilictions' towards the manner in which they would experience the world. We are not referring to how one would interpret the world, nor are we talking about what a person might think about the world around them....rather we are talking about how one experiences the world. It is this predilection that allows us to understand the nature of the world the other person is experiencing.

For example, a roger experiences the world as a place in which the main context of life is being a member of a herd. The group paradigm is everything to the roger, influencing not just how they see other people but it determines (for the roger) the choices of actions that are available to them.

( I can sense eye glazing over out there...not to worry! This just means that you're a roger .
I know that, because if you were a scott you would have moved on way before now...and we know you're not a clark, cause if you were you would be way ahead of me at this point of the process.
But do not despair, this theory (of clarks, scotts and rogers) actually makes sense once you get the basics down, and it is kind of fun.)

But lets get the basics established:

• we are all born with the potential to experience the world as a clark or a scott or a roger ;
• we all settle on one of the 3 ways to experience the world, quite early in life
• we retain the potential for the other two types throughout our lives
• we therefore are mostly/predominatelyclarks , scotts and/or rogers
• these three descriptions of personality types are both gender and culture neutral.

This is just a bullet-point way of saying that, a scottian female is just as live-in-the-moment, predatory-pack-based as is the scottian male.
A rogerian male will be no more or less herd-biased, prone to excessive gossip, obsessed with tradition and history as is the female roger ...

This Wakefield Doctrine, as a predictive theory of personality, may seem a bit overly-ambitious, what with claiming to categorize human personality.

But the really cool thing is this: show me a male who is an engineer and I will guarentee that this person has an excessive interest in genealogy; point out a female (in your workplace) who seems to invest a lot into eye/hair makeup accessories and (she) knows way, way more than anyone should about 'the implications of over-crowding in the workplace' and I will show you a person who is a chronic under-acheiver. (That engineer would be a roger and the female office mate would so be a clark )

That is the level of insight afforded to those who have the "flexible intelligence' to 'get' the Wakefield Doctrine. Oh yeah, a hint...if you go to the Doctrine to look all this stuff up? Spend the first part of your time reading the Pages devoted to each of the individual types, rather than read the Posts. You will get a grounding in the basic idea behind the theory of clarks , scotts and rogers . The Posts are meant to be more a 'conversation' about the theory in more of the everyday sense.

Wait a minute! Yesterday I did a Post that talked about TV shows pointed out examples of the three personality types, it was very helpful. Lets take a quick couple of examples:

(1970s) 'Threes Company' (Cast members): Jack Tripper: roger; Janet Wood: scott; Chrissy Snow: clark
(1980s) 'Newhart' (Cast members): Bob Loudon: clark; Joanna Loudon: scott; Stephanie: roger; Michael: roger
(1990s) 'Angel' (Cast members); Angel: roger; Cordelia: scott; Doyle: clark