The FBI and other government agencies have been using handwriting analysis to profile criminals as well as determine forgery for over 50 years. There are certain attributes that show up to the trained eye that reflect a person’s honestly level, whether he or she is self-consciousness, a good diplomat, depressed, likely to have sarcastic humor, or just an outright sociopath. On the other side there are common traits that exist among the top performing people in the world in the areas of business, leadership, and even in their own personal lives.
Bart Baggett started the educational site HandwritingUniversity.com and has become an online marketing success story on top of helping 10s of 1000s of people start their own business as a handwriting expert.
I read two books on the subject five or six years ago and even ordered some “grapho deck” flash cards for the common traits through Bart’s site. One of his bonus giveaways was an eBook on common handwriting traits of the world’s most financially successful people. As Tony Robbins and other NLP practitioners would say, if you want to have success in an area of your life find “models” in that area to fashion your behavior.
Does what your handwriting reveal about your personality determine if you will be successful or not? Many say it could since it is a manifestation of your brain. Everyone was taught to write a specific way, but we change from person to person based on our personalities.
One trait you look at is your “T” bars, lower and upper case. When written in cursive. Don’t say you haven’t written in cursive since 3rd grade or forgot, because that reveals something about you as well.
People who have high “T” bars have high self esteem and goals for themselves. You can figure out what the opposite would mean. Is this predestination? Yes and no. Yes if you don’t change certain characteristics of your writing, no if you do. My one tip: Raise Your “T” bars. You can change your writing to change certain aspects of your personality. Sound like voodoo? Just like with any personality reflection test, it’s hard to determine empirical evidence.
What reminded me of this time in my life was a recent email I received from an newsletter I joined six years ago that I found particularly interesting.
Learn What Barack Obama’s Handwriting Says About His Leadership Skills.