Self-Confidence and Handwriting

Are you considering candidates for a position requiring self-confidence in your firm? If so, you’ll be seeking someone who is sure of their ability to reach worthwhile goals. You’ll be looking for someone who can move toward their goals efficiently because he is not shackled by the fear of failure. You’ll need someone who is sure of their powers, but someone who also realizes that at times they’ll need assistance and they won’t be afraid to enlist such assistance.

In handwriting terms, one of the main indications of self-confidence in the strokes of writing is strong, well-placed t-bars. Someone who is self-confident will place these bars high on their t-stems in what could be termed a ‘high practical’ area, but not all flying above the t-stems which would give a hint of the person being ‘visionary’.

You’ll want to see a t-bars that is firm to indicate firm willpower, together with this tendency to set high goals, with the t-bar in the upper portion of the t-stem.

A constellation of trait strokes that also points to self-confidence is ‘independent thinking’, seen in t-stems that are shorter than the upper loops. You’d also want to see enduring determination with the independent thinking, indicated by strong straight downstrokes on the y’s and g’s. In addition, you might want to see ‘stick’ downstrokes on the y’s and g’s rather than loops, indicating your candidate’s desire to work alone.

Self-confidence is also seen in high capital letters (but not so towering high as to be seen as overblown ego strengths).

A combination of intuition (breaks into letters between words which end on a downstroke and begin on a downstroke), combined with fluidity (t-bars that join to the next letter together with figure-8 g’s, s’s and f’s, and i-dots connected to the next letter.

Self-confidence is enhanced by a strong, bold underscore under the signature. Even a flourished underscore can indicate self-reliance, although curved underscores do not have the force of straight ones.

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