Notes from the practice.
Long-form essays on the Highlands Ability Battery, career transitions, college-major decisions, and the formation of young men. Written for parents, students, athletes, adults at a crossroads, and the schools who serve them.
Highlands Ability Battery vs Myers-Briggs: A Practical Comparison
Two of the most cited self-knowledge tools answer two different questions. If you confuse them, you'll buy the wrong one for the decision you're trying to make.
Both tools have a place. Only one of them measures what your brain can actually do. Here's how to decide which one you need.
Assessments
Both tools have a place. Only one of them measures what your brain can actually do. Here's how to decide which one you need.
A plain-language walkthrough of the 14 abilities the Highlands measures, what each one means in real life, and how the results inform a career decision.
Parents
Free career quizzes ask teenagers what they like. The Highlands Ability Battery measures what their brain can actually do. The difference is the entire point.
"Follow your passion" is the worst advice ever given to a 17-year-old. Here's the framework I use with parents when the major question comes up.
An honest evaluation of when the Highlands is worth $495 and when it isn't — from someone who's run hundreds of debriefs.
Athletes
- — Vocational Discernment Beyond the Religious Sense
- — Highlands in Practice: A Working-Mom Case Study
- — Why Group Highlands Engagements Outperform One-on-One in Schools
- — The Two-Hour Debrief: Anatomy of a Single Session
- — What Pro Sport Teaches About Post-Sport Identity
- — The Trinity Fellows Year, in Retrospect