Comparison of Different Methods to Learn and
Do Handwriting Analysis
Are you interested in handwriting analysis and want to go
further? There are lots of options available to you: free
on-line analysis, correspondence courses, good books,
hiring a professional graphologist. You can spend anywhere
from nothing at all to quite a bit, both in time and in
money.
Let's
look at this from from four different perspectives:
1.
How much money are you willing to spend?
Books and kits run under $20.00, courses can go up to
$1000.00 each, professional graphologists charge anywhere
from $50.00 to $200.00 and more for a single analysis.
Do
you see this as a money making venture?
If you see this as a money making venture, here is my two
cents on that. There are definitely some people out there
who are earning good money doing handwriting analyses. But
I get the impression by looking at many websites of
certified graphologist, by talking with certified
graphologists, and by looking at EBAY offerings to analyze
handwriting, that getting customers is not an easy task. It
is just something to think about before you plunk down your
money. Do a search on translation jobs and thousands of
jobs come up on Google. Do a search on Handwriting Analysis
jobs and you will get zilch.
Several
people who have taken these expensive handwriting
certification courses have contacted me asking if I could
help them to get customers as they are having trouble
attracting business.
2.
How much time do you want to spend?
To become a professional graphologist takes years of study
and can run thousands of dollars. And after you are
certified it requires you to continue your studies and use
your skills regularly so that they don't become stale.
Calling a professional graphologist for a personality
profile report whenever you need one takes very little
time. Books take time to read, plus you need to use what
you have learned to retain it. Handwriting Insights 5
Minute Handwriting Analysis Kit takes 15 minutes to learn,
and from then on 5 minutes to create a personality profile.
Obviously I am biased since I developed Handwriting
Insights, but you might want to try it first and then
improve your skills with a few good books on analyzing
handwriting.
3. Do you want to acquire a new skill?
Handwriting Analysis is a wonderful skill to possess. There
will be lots of instances where you see someone's writing
and having this skill will let you analyze it on the spot!
Having the skill means that you directly look at the
writing and using your memory (and maybe with the help of a
tool like Handwriting Insights and/or a good book on
handwriting analysis, or your notes) you can create a
personality profile. It means that your eyes and your brain
are producing the results, as opposed to a computer program
or a professional graphologist.
4.
How important is it that the result be thorough and
accurate?
If you are mainly interested in analyzing handwriting so
that you can create a personality profile at parties, or
use it as conversation starters, or use it as an icebreaker
game, then it is fine to just look at, for example, the 11
basic handwriting indicators in Handwriting Insights. If
you will be doing this as a professional, then obviously
your results must be accurate if you wish to have a viable
business. And when you use a professional graphologist you
expect their result to be comprehensive.
Let's
look at some combinations of the four items above.
1.
Sometime nothing but a professional will do, because there
is no room for error and you want someone who is very
experienced in analyzing handwriting, and you need the
analysis NOW.
Hire
an experienced, certified Handwriting Analyst -
It is amazing what a really good handwriting analyst can
see in handwriting. Paula Sassi (hci@hotmail.com),
a certified graphologist who is technical consultant to
Handwriting Insights, looks at dozens of writing samples
a day. Her home is filled with graphology books,
manuscript books, and interesting antique writing
samples - from autograph books to old hotel registers.
She regularly gives talks on handwriting, and is a
consultant to many companies. When you have a writing
sample that you want analyzed where there is no room for
error, then it is best to have a professional like Paula
analyze it. Let's say for example that you are to be
married, and you and your fiancé are having some
problems and you want some in-depth understand of your
fiance' personality. A professional graphologist can
provide that!
Pros:
The quality of the analysis is much higher when you get it
from an experienced professional. This will give you more
information and more confidence in the accuracy.
Cons:
This is costly ($75 or more for an analysis), so for most
people this will be done rarely.
2. You'd like to learn the basics; it would be fun at
parties and useful in understanding people better and
create a personality profile, but if you make a mistake
it's no big deal. You do not want to invest a lot of time
or money. You do not want to spend a lot of time retaining
this knowledge (i.e. a tool that keeps the information at
your fingertips would be good). You would like not to
depend on the computer to generate a report.
Handwriting
Insights Kit
-
Handwriting Insights is a high quality deck of 64
connected, illustrated cards that teaches you handwriting
analysis as you use it. You'll have your first analysis 15
minutes after you open the package. After the first time,
analyzing a hand writing sample just takes 5 minutes. It is
designed to provide feedback that is descriptive, not
judgmental. It is the easiest way to produce a basic
handwriting analysis.
Pros:
low cost ($10.95), low one-time investment, little to
remember, no hurt feeling with analysis results, fast, the
more often you use it the more you will remember what the
different traits mean, thereby training your eyes to
analyze handwriting without the deck. A written report
personality profile is easily generated using the
Individual Insights pad that comes in the kit. You can hand
the deck with the selected cards to the person whose
writing you are analyzing and they can read the meaning
themselves, thereby not having to take your word for what
the writing traits mean. Easy to use when you only do
occasional handwriting analyses.
Cons:
only provides a basic analysis, there are many hand writing
traits that are not included. Supplementing Handwriting
Insights will a good book like Ruiz's Basic Handwriting
Analysis is a good idea when you want more detail.
Handwriting
Analysis Books -
There are several of good books to select from to learn
handwriting analysis. They have lots of examples, and after
reading them and learning the material, you will be able to
do a handwriting analysis.
Pros:
Books are not expensive, lots of examples, lots of details
and writing traits to look at.
Cons:
You need to read a book and remember what it is teaching
you. If you only analyze handwritings periodically, it is
easy to forgot. There is not easy way to generate a written
report. When you talk to people about what their
handwriting means, it is easy for them not to believe you
because you are just saying it (as opposed to showing them,
for example, the cards in Handwriting Insights). Some books
are lot better than others. Many are overwhelming in their
complexity.
3)
You want to become a professional graphologist.
Take
a Handwriting Analysis Course -
Typically handwriting analysis courses from professional
organizations are well written, present lots of useful
information and examples, and interacting one on one with
the instructor who was a certified handwriting analyst is
valuable.
Pros:
Provides more structure than books, you get to interact
with an instructor, provides an opportunity for working
towards certification as a handwriting analyst.
Cons:
If you are not interested in certification and baring money
doing handwriting analysis, then this could be overkill.
Courses can cost lots of money, and take time. Once you
acquire the knowledge, you need to keep using it or you
will forget it.
3)
You don't want to learn handwriting analysis at all - you
just want some personality profiles from some writing
samples and autographs that you have. These reports do not
have to be in-depth.
Free
On-line Handwriting Analysis
-
There are lots of on-line sites where you can get a free,
computer generated handwriting analysis. You look at your
writing sample, and then answer questions about it. After
you are done a report comes up on the screen, or a report
is emailed to you.
Pros:
It's free, you don't need to learn or remember
anything.
Cons:
You don't acquire any skills yourself, so that when you see
a writing sample you cannot make an immediate analysis -
you need either a copy of it (which is not usually
available) or to remember what the writing looks like and
then go on-line later and generate an analysis. In other
words, you are tied to a computer for your analyses. Some
of the reports could have traits described using negative
terms that can result in hurt feelings.
Handwriting
Insights is a high quality deck of 64 connected,
illustrated cards that teaches you handwriting analysis as
you use it. You'll have your first analysis 15 minutes
after you open the package. After the first time, analyzing
a hand writing sample just takes 5 minutes.
Developed by a mediator and an award winning professional
graphologist, it produces an analysis that is accurate, but
is worded constructively so that there are not hurt
feelings.
We
call it "Entertainment that's Insightful."
This
is simply the easiest way to generate a basic handwriting
analysis!
Handwriting Insights is handwriting analysis with the work
removed, and the fun left in.
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