Finding Your Place: The TDF Map

This is the definitive book on TDF. Written by the developers of the theory – David Farr and Bill Roberts – this is also the clearest and most readable description of the theory.

Starting with a chapter on the nature and values of type theories of personality, this book moves on to a clear and straightforward discussion of the basics of the theory: the three perceptual lenses and the six patterns.

The heart of the book is six chapters spelling out each of the six patterns, using examples to help bring the patterns to life.

The book ends with the two most basic applications of TDF: using the theory to understand and communicate better with others; and using the theory to make choices about your life.

David Farr is the creator of TDF. David has degrees from Baylor and SMU and he has spent most of his adult life as an organizational-development consultant and as a senior executive of a Fortune 500 corporation.

Bill Roberts has worked as a consultant since leaving college teaching in 1985. Trained in clinical psychology at Purdue and Duke, Bill has worked as a psychotherapist, a professor, a change consultant, and a training designer.