Ever wonder why your husband, wife, kids, friends, bosses... are acting the way they are?

Well then you have come to the right place. The Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)* is a unique, useful, helpful, beneficial and totally fun way to look at the way the people in our lives behave. Not just a clever categorization of personality types, but a perspective that, when adopted, will let you understand why people behave the way they do and predict how they will act in any situation. With a basic understanding of the characteristics of each group (clarks, scotts and rogers), anyone can understand everyone else! You will know how those around you will act in virtually any situation. Finally you can understand what has never made sense to you about the people you work with, live with and/or are friends with. You will have the answer to the question, 'Why on earth would you do that/say that/feel that way?' The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated upon the idea that everyone experiences the world/reality differently, from one of three overlapping but distinctive perspectives. It also proposes that our personalities are but a result of our perception, of our habitual responses to the world. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that this characteristic perception of reality can be grouped into three distinct types, called for reasons stated elsewhere, clarks, scotts and rogers. . Let's start with clarks: The 'premise of identity' for a clark is that of an outcast, different from those around, separate and apart from everyone (and everything). There is a (self-awareness) of being intellectually capable, perhaps even superior. The 'perceptual bias' of clarks is that the world is an indifferent, probably hostile environment, filled with strangers who appear to enjoy the company of others. To a clark, the world is a minefield, but clarks can see no other way to navigate through life. They think that their only hope is to learn and think and try to anticipate the thoughts and actions of those she encounters. To a clark, information/knowledge is the thing of highest value in the world. This belief is the flaw from which all in the behavior (of a clark) flows. "If I know everything I can understand why I feel different. If I understand why I feel different, I can change and then not feel different. Then I can be like other people". Being an 'other', clarks are driven by the need to understand. With their 'premise of identity centered in the intellectual, this need to acquire knowledge is paramount. At a certain point this drive for value in the factual supplants, replaces and substitutes for the emotional side of the personality. The end result/purpose of acquiring this knowledge is not to identify with the world but to recognize their place in it. For a clark knowledge (and it's idiot-bastard son, information) is the thing of greatest value. By definition, clarks are the ones that think up shit, like this clark, scott, roger thing. All because clarks think that there is an answer, there is information to be found/understood/discovered that will make sense of the world as they see it. Clarks believe that if we think enough we will understand why we are not a part of the world and can then become a part of the world, no longer different. If you are still reading this, two things are most likely true: you are a clark and you have already devised a system (like this or better) to do this thing. Next we have scotts: basic level, scotts live to hunt. Where they sleep is not the most important thing. That 'reality is perception' is as non-scottian a concept as there is; scotts are the ultimate realists. Scotts live to act and act to live. While there is certainly a subjective side to scotts, they inhabit a world of stimulus-

response. In the sense that by nature they will go into the world, satisfy their need (whatever that may be) through direct action. Scotts do not need companions to tell her what to do. It has been said of scotts: "I scream, therefore I am" In any social environment, be it a social gathering, or a workplace, anywhere there is a group of people, a scott will all make establishing their ranking their first order of business. The scottian individual will, (upon entering this social environment), push everyone on the shoulder (figuratively or literally). They do this to elicit a reaction/response and thereby allowing (the scott) to establish ranking. Does the other person push back or not? (If they do not, they are prey), (if they do push back, then ranking in the pack order must be determined.) Scotts will 'work the room', never staying in one group for too long. At the same time being quite aware of the other scotts in the room. This behavior is perceived as being a very social person. Scotts are the life of the party; but their actual purpose is to find the other scotts and establish ranking and therefore territory and then find the food (read rogers). It has been reported by scotts, that this (working the room) is an absolutely necessary act. The worst thing (for a scott) is to be in a circumstance/social setting and not know where they stand, relative to the rest of the environment. That is the first priority of the scott. So, the life of the party, the scott, is not being entertaining because he likes you or your dress, he is establishing where the other scotts are, who is dominant and where the easiest eats are. And finally rogers: Rogers live to be with who they perceive to be, and that is one of others like themselves. They accept the existence of others(non-herd members) but only in the most transitory sense. Individual herd members will be picked off (by scotts) but so long as the herd survives (and they are not the ones being picked off), the roger is content. This is not to say that rogers are not highly intelligent. To the contrary, much will follow in these pages that show that without rogers there would be no civilization. In all civilizations there must be organizers, the people who keep track of the details. (Accountants and bankers, engineers and carpenters, doctors and cooks, computers programmers and musicians, followers and priests, lawyers and journalist.) They are all rogers. The 'premise of identity' for a roger is that of group member, similar to those in his group(herd), definitely different from nearly all other not members of the herd she might see, in the world at large. There is a (self-awareness) of being emotionally capable, perhaps even superior. The 'perceptual bias' exhibited is that the world is an ordered place, filled with similar people all who appear to enjoy the company of others like themselves. To a roger the world is, basically good provided the rules and guides and laws are expressed and conformed to all, except the rogers themselves. This drive to impose order, through rules and laws is particularly noticeable when the roger is in the company of others/outsiders who by definition are considered to be (potentially) hostile. From the perspective of a roger, especially when in the context of the herd, the roger is never, ever the outsider. Of the three, rogers are the emotional ones, this emotion forms the 'currency' of their interactions with others, but inside and outside of the herd.

While clarks gather by themselves and scotts organize as packs, the characteristic grouping of rogers is the herd. To summarize: -clarks live inside their own heads because it's all much better in there -clarks are the only (one of the three) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else -clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant -clarks work very hard at whatever they do but since we are bored very easily, do not do well at repetitive tasks -clarks are the creative one(s) of the three -clarks share, to a fault -clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different knowledge is power' is a keystone concept to clarks -scotts are leaders (because they are certain, not necessarily right, but certain). -scotts are self-confident/self-assured/certain (which is why, of course, they are the leaders) -scotts are emotional in a way different from rogers, it is for the moment emotion, not much grudge holding -in a band it is always a scott who is the 'front man', (see leader above) -at a party scotts will not hesitate to introduce themselves (to everyone) -for the most part, when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee -scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, hardly ever both. -(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (ask us why) -rogers are the friendly ones -rogers are the glue to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, civic, religious, scientific -rogers require rules and traditions, they are in fact the only 'reason' that history of human civilization has any continuity whatsoever -rogers are behind the creation or and perpetuation of virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political whatever -rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators -rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians -rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers) -rogers believe in a quantifiable universe to such a depth that it is not separable -when you are new to a neighborhood, rogers are the ones who come over to introduce themselves, and they will appear in a group ( herd), -the scotts are the neighbors who always offer to help you with projects, scotts will feel comfortable asking to borrow and offering to lend things, but they will show up (at your house) alone. [Link]