More On Handwriting

2008-1-29 05:22:00

A reader asks:

"Do you do these handwriting analyses yourself, how does it work? My mother had one done recently as part of a job interview. I have never heard of it before and sounded kinda strange like prejudging a person just by how they sign their name. But I have an open mind.

"Would like to see what my writing says about me, because I notice my writing changes depending on my mood."

JJ:

Yes, I do the analysis myself as I have over 40 years experience.

The slant of your handwriting will change with your mood and the size by your thinking but little else.

My ex-wife worked for a large corporation and for a whole was asked to select new employees. I told her to bring me the applications and I would pick the best ones. She came home with about a hundred of them and I picked a half dozen good ones. After doing this for a while management was quite impressed with the quality of people she caused to be hired.

On a humorous note one time I thought I would try and do this professionally and went to the main guy at Albertsons in charge of hiring. After I explained what I could do he gave me a sample to analyze. I said some negative things about whoever wrote it including that he was overbearing and any employees under him would have a difficult time.

He then mumbled that he would think over my proposal and get back to me.

On the way out I noticed several secretaries were quietly laughing. I stopped and asked one of them what was so funny. She whispered to me: "We heard your analysis and the handwriting belongs to him and everything you said was exactly right! We are so glad someone told him what he is really like."

I immediately realized that I wasn't going to get a call back from this guy.

It works because handwriting is merely frozen action and just as you can analyze a person from watching his actions you can even do it faster by looking at his frozen actions in his writing.

Back in my college days I used to analyze people during lunch. I found that when I analyzed one person that almost every day thereafter someone was bringing me something new to analyze. One of my roommates was very skeptical and kept trying to convince everyone that I was not accurate. He kept saying that I was too general and what I said could apply to anyone. It seemed that no matter how impressed others were that he was unfazed and demanded I be more specific. I think part of the problem was he was very religious and had read in some LDS [Mormon] publication that handwriting analysis was not endorsed by the church.

He started getting on my nerves so I looked for an opportunity to turn the tables on him. One day I had my chance. Since we lived in the same house I passed his desk on a regular basis and looked at his handwriting from time to time. One day I noticed that his nervous system was adversely affected as often happens just before a cold or flu shows up. I went a little out on a limb and said to him:

"I just glanced at your handwriting and it tells me that you will be coming down with a cold in about two days."

He gave me a look that said, "Yeah, right."

Then exactly two days later I passed his bunk and noticed he was dead to the world. I asked him if he was OK and he told me he had his worst cold in years.

I then reminded him of what I had seen in his handwriting and asked him if I was specific enough this time.

He reluctantly admitted that I was pretty specific this time.

I could write about many more interesting experiences but this will suffice for now.