On leadership
When I was growing up, handwriting analysis was a big deal. Did your writing lean forward? Then you were an extrovert. Backwards? Well, obviously an introvert. Big loops? Generous. Small loops? Mean and selfish. I cultivated a forward-slanting handwriting with generous (but not insanely so) loops.
I now have serious doubts about handwriting’s ability to reveal the secrets of ones soul, but I do believe that the spoken word is a dead giveaway. When I say that, I don’t mean just the content, but also the style of delivery. Some stylistic things are just a matter of education (“am not” rather than “ain’t,” for example), but others — the choice of specific words, the content used — are dead giveaways about a person’s beliefs regarding both the world around him and himself.
With VE day in mind, Greyhawk has looked at the way in which Churchill, Roosevelt and Hitler spoke. It’s a short post, and quite obviously intended to make a point, but it’s nevertheless very instructive.