the Wakefield Doctrine: 3 personality types that really make sense in real life

the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, productive, useful and fun way to approach personality types. The urge to assign a 'type' to the personalities of the people in our lives is universal and stems from the need to understand why people do the things that they do. No matter how close a person may be to us, there are times when our only reaction is, 'Now why on earth would they act like that'?

Now, there is no shortage of ways to try and make sense of the behavior of people, from religion to sociolgy, psychology to astrology, all efforts to understand (other) people.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that are three "types of people', clarks, scotts and rogers.
Male or female, old or young, it does not matter...Western cultures or Eastern or Southern cultures, Still does not matter. (The 'Doctrine' system of personality classification is both gender neutral and culture neutral.)

What does matter to this 'theory of personality is the basic premise that each of these three types experience the world in a certain characteristic way. If you understand the way (of the clarks , or the scotts or the rogers ), you will know, to a very high degree of reliability, how they will respond to most of life's situations.
How is this possible?
(For example), the scottian personalityexperiences the world as a predatory, pack animal. Living their lives in the here and now, responding to the environment, cpnstantly on the alert for the presence of threats, always seeking to find their ranking in the whatever (social) context they may find themselves in, the scottian man or woman experiences a day to day reality not too far removed from the world of the wolves or dogs that are the 'template' for the perception of the world for scotts.
To take this worldview and apply it to human experience is not such a huge leap. As an example, we recognize the scottian personality as the person who. in a social gathering is observed to be constantly on the move, going from one person (or group of people) mingling and moving on to the next group.
("Wait a minute !", I hear you say, "whats so enlightening about that ?"), the thing to do is watch and understand exactly what this particular person is trying to achieve by this activity.

If our 'example person' were just interested in conversation, one group of people would be as good as the next. Watch and consider the 'tone' of their interaction. See how confident the person is as they approach a group, they make everyone pay attention to them. Now that our subject has the attention of everyone in the group, what happens next?
(Our scottian person) proceeds to interact with each person in this small group. ("Hey! nothing odd there, everyone does that") But as the scott pays attention to each person, pay close attention to the 'tone' of the interaction, he challenges each person to see if they are dominant or submissive to them. The scott does this in the (locally) acceptable manner, be it a joke (always just a little over the edge of propriety) or opinion (bold statements, but watching for resistance).

At the end of each of these interactions, the scottian personality moves on, always going on to the next group until they have met with everyone in that particular setting/gathering. And the scott always leaves behind people saying, "what a funny person"! "how rude!", "she is so hot"! "he was such a jerk". Simply put, the scott has established (the) ranking of everyone in the particular social environment. And 'the next time', the process will repeat itself. The need to detect threats, find prey and establish rank it never ends, it is how they live. Just because that is the nature of scotts .

Are you starting to get the idea? Once you accept the worldview, the behavior is makes sense; once you see how the other person is experiencing the world, their actions are almost inevitable.

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*(I have stated elsewhere the idea that the internet allows us all, to experience a level of communication un-parallelled in history. Or as I put it:
If this were 100 years ago, I would have been that person who, having a little extra income and the extra drive to reach out to the world, would have arranged to have my thoughts printed on pamphlets and with an armload of my printed message, I would have stood in a corner of the local Town Common and called out to tens or even hundreds of passerbys, "Come and hear what I had to say"!
But I am fortunate to live in the 21st Century. With a cheap computer and an internet connection, I am able to stand in a digital corner of the global Commons and call out to millions if not hundreds of millions of people to "Come hear what I say"!)

Vanity publishing on a scale that would have made Guttenberg fall to the ground in humility.