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I explored handwriting analysis about 30 years ago. It fascinates me that by analyzing the way someone writes, we gain insight about the scribe. In addition, by learning and applying the inherent personality traits expressed in cursive letters, we can change who we are in the world. Often when we look back at our penmanship in different decades of our adult life, we recognize alterations in our transcription style. When our personality is changed, our writing is modified too. In fact, it can also work in reverse, our personality can change by adjusting our pencraft.
It’s curious to me that schools are not teaching cursive to kids. Connecting the letters together is a stronger manifestation of a personality. Our institutions are encouraging block lettering and printing, but eliminating a historical style of writing. In fact, I have met children who cannot read cursive at all. For us older people, cursive is the way we automatically write and sign our names. If one wants to have their handwriting analyzed, the writer is asked to write in cursive, with a ball-point pen, on unlined paper in landscape orientation. In this way, it feels like a blank canvas is prepared for an artist to create their masterpiece.
In my opinion, block, capital letters, create a drab composition. A style that lacks flare, distinctiveness and variety. It makes me wonder if this might be why we’re seeing eccentricities in tattoos, piercings, hair colors and preferences in different fashion statements. We all want to develop our own identities as individuals. Writing is part of that expression.
Here are a few, fun and basic interpretations of the written word.
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