the 3 Personality Types of the Wakefield Doctrine and being found on the internet

Like many others here at Hub Pages I have an idea, a pet theory, if you will, that I enjoy sharing with others. All of my friends know about this idea and they seem to get a lot from knowing about it.

This idea (that I wish to share) is not a particularly odd idea, it is simply a way 'to look at' the behavior of other people, with the hope of understanding why they act as they do. Many terms and labels apply, personality theory, personality types, relationship advice, all good descriptions and they all come down to the same thing, the universal need to know more about ourselves. And the equally strong desire to understand the behavior of the people in our lives, at home or at school or at work.

That this particular idea should inspire a person to write a blog should come as no surprise. The internet is full of people intent on producing guides and theories, viewpoints and strategies for dealing with understanding human behavior. The level of credentials of the people behind these efforts is equally wide ranging, from scientifically established, tried-in-practice, taught in colleges and universities type theories, all the way over to the 'homespun', observation-based, strictly anecdotal, theories of personality that are often more accessible to the non-professional and subsequently can be more useful. There are arguments to be made for the 'value' of the product of either camp. In the arena of human behavior, the level of subjective interpretation tends to be on the high side. Despite the ooften impassioned claims to empirical proof and therefore a sigil of validity, even the most entrenched and established theory of personality is always forced to accept the unavoidable subjectivity of the focus of all the studies and measures and trainings. The human personality.

So we would maintain that the true measure of the value of a personality theory lies in it's usefulness. How well does a theory produce results? Is it easy to comprehend and more importantly is it easy to use? Most of use (non-professional fans of personality theory) are looking for the predictive efficacy of a model. When a person is assigned a category, identified as a certain personality types, what good does that do? Can we infer, even predict future behavior? After 'predicting behavior', the second most common use most of us have for theories of personality is in understanding ourselves. In other words, does this theory allow me to not only understand myself better, but does it allow offer a view, a kind of understanding that facilitates self-improvement?

The access to other minds, disparate opinions, varied backgrounds that is integral to a platform such as Hub Pages makes the task both simpler and more complex.
A virtual readership beyond counting while at the same time making an idea available for both praise and criticism by a fairly eclectic group of people. Truly the digital Town Commons.

The core information on the theory pf personality to by the author can be found at:

http://wakefielddoctrine.com