Handwriting is a key component for mental maturation and a shockingly accurate means of personality analysis.
The contention that computers, smart phones, and other technology will replace the need for writing is shortsighted.
Handwriting won’t ever become obsolete. Even though people are writing less due to technology, almost everyone still writes, even young people.
Consider some of the many ways people will always need cursive: you learn better when you write it down instead of type or text; the need to be able to read cursive will always exist–e.g., the U.S. Constitution, many other historical documents, and letters your ancestors wrote are in cursive; cursive gives your brain a mental workout so it’s especially good to utilize as you age. Handwriting also helps to dynamically advance cognitive development.
Handwriting analysis is a key part of my systems of analysis in identifying personality traits. I’ve found it to be one of the most objective and non-discriminatory methods of discerning subconscious fears and defenses, including red flag character attributes.
I analyze cursive and printing equally well, and the script of any language can be analyzed. All that is required is the copybook form (i.e., the standard by which the writer learned) of the writing to use as a basis for comparison.
Writing longhand can also provide tremendous psychological release. Remember the last time you poured your feelings into writing a letter to someone close to you, or even to yourself?
The art of writing is too valuable of a practice to abandon.
Copyright © 2016 Scott Petullo