The Successful Entrepreneur - Top Ten Personality Traits As Shown in Handwriting
With full time jobs becoming a thing of the past, more and more people are becoming entrepreneurs whether out of desire or necessity.
It requires a whole different set of skills, and a different outlook than being an employee, but by knowing where you are strong and where you are lacking, you are empowered to seek help in the areas you need it before it "comes back to bite you".
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Independence
Intuition
Imagination
Initiative
Ability To Be Objective + Ability To Be Responsive
Lack Of Caution
Honest & Integrity
Clear Thinking
Persistent
Self Motivated
If you're starting on your entrepreneurial journey, I wish you well.
It requires a whole different set of skills, and a different outlook than being an employee, but by knowing where you are strong and where you are lacking, you are empowered to seek help in the areas you need it before it "comes back to bite you".
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Independence
- You can't be an entrepreneur if you are constantly depending on someone else.
- Where the capital I, when used as the Personal Pronoun, is either just a straight stick, or a straight stick with a horizontal bar top and bottom.
- Independence thinking or independence of ideas, going your own way regardless, shows in very short stems on the lower case "t" or "d.
" - Self Reliant - this one speaks for itself.
It shows in the underlining of your signature.
If you don't do that now - start! It's always a positive no matter what you want to do in life.
You have to be willing to stand on your own two feet.
In handwriting, Independence shows in three ways.
Intuition
- If the entrepreneur expects facts in front of her before making every decision, she will be left behind.
- Intuition shows in breaks between letters in script.
If it's all printing, this is not intuition.
Intuition, that gut feeling that you just "know" is right, is essential.
Imagination
- Creativity is too complicated a trait to give as part of this list, but imagination is one component of it.
- Imagination, especially when it comes as the ability to think outside the box (often imagination + independent thinking) is shown in large upper loops on b,h,k,l and lower loops on j,g,y.
Initiative
- Always a positive trait, the ability to recognize opportunity and move towards grasping it.
- Initiative is shown in the strong rightward swing of the end stroke of a lower case "t" substituting for the t-bar.
- It also shows in a strong forward swing of the "hump" part of the lower case "k" or "h.
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Ability To Be Objective + Ability To Be Responsive
- Both of these are needed by the entrepreneur.
- The ability to be objective and not be consumed by emotional reaction is shown in an upright slant.
- The ability to be responsive is shown in a forward right slant.
How can anyone have both? Well, yes that's the tricky part, but a slight right slant shows the best of both worlds - the ability to be empathetic and respond to people, plus the ability to keep calm and make rational decisions.
Lack Of Caution
- Caution, as shown in handwriting, is an inhibitor.
- The slant as mentioned in #5 will prevent foolhardy impulsiveness, so a lack of the caution trait would be good for the entrepreneur.
- Caution shows in a long, flat stroke at the baseline before lifting the pen from the page at the end of a word/ letter formation.
Too much caution can be crippling.
Honest & Integrity
- An absolute necessity for anyone and especially someone who's reputation translates into business or no business.
- Honesty is shown in circle letters (a, o, the circle part of g and d) with no loops or hooks.
Just clean, clear circles.
Clear Thinking
- A clear head, the ability to see right though all the "garbage" and get to the important point.
- Clear thinking is shown in a lack of lead in strokes in letters i.
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when putting the pen to paper the writer starts with the actual letter formation itself, not with a curvy, or straight, lead-in stroke.
Persistent
- It has been said that 80% of businesses that fail do so because the entrepreneur gave up too soon.
- Persistence shows in a counter clockwise knot which can appear anywhere, but frequently can be seen as a connected t-bar, in the formation of the bar in a capital H or A, in a lower case f and sometimes by itself in place of the word "and.
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There are several traits which show someone who will keep on going.
Persistence is just one.
Self Motivated
- And lastly self motivation.
- His motivation to succeed and his ability to get himself going is shown in a strong, heavy t-bar - heavier than the rest of the writing.
No-one is going to push the entrepreneur to get his work done.
No-one is going to complain if he skips some things he doesn't like to do.
But his business will suffer.
If you're starting on your entrepreneurial journey, I wish you well.