Any of you guys take pride in your handwriting?
I've noticed a major decline in people's ability to write legible let alone attractive handwriting, including women. My handwriting is decent, but on closer study lacks quite a bit of symmetry. Still, at first glance even girls think it's good. I can't figure out if this is bad for game or good - good because of the style points, bad because if they might associate good handwriting with feminity - which is stupid, but alas it's the world we live in.
It's like having a sloppy style, dressing in a wrinkled shirt. Look at handwriting of men just a few generations ago. An educated man had excellent hand-writing skills.
If you can't write a neatly composed thank you note for a gift or written invitation to an event, you're losing style points, even if no one remembers to do that stuff anymore - that makes it all the more powerful and memorable when you do. It makes a huge impression if you send a hand-written response to a written invitation, for a gift or favor, or even a job interview (although I'd say an email would often do for the latter, unless it's a job you really want for which there's a lot of competition and the job itself involves a great deal of responsability, in which case go hand-written). Extra tip: upon receiving a written invitation, always make an effort to respond within 24 hours by the same media.
Of course, the hand-written note only makes sense if your hand writing doesn't look like 90 percent of other guys, which is to say terrible.
I've noticed a major decline in people's ability to write legible let alone attractive handwriting, including women. My handwriting is decent, but on closer study lacks quite a bit of symmetry. Still, at first glance even girls think it's good. I can't figure out if this is bad for game or good - good because of the style points, bad because if they might associate good handwriting with feminity - which is stupid, but alas it's the world we live in.
It's like having a sloppy style, dressing in a wrinkled shirt. Look at handwriting of men just a few generations ago. An educated man had excellent hand-writing skills.
If you can't write a neatly composed thank you note for a gift or written invitation to an event, you're losing style points, even if no one remembers to do that stuff anymore - that makes it all the more powerful and memorable when you do. It makes a huge impression if you send a hand-written response to a written invitation, for a gift or favor, or even a job interview (although I'd say an email would often do for the latter, unless it's a job you really want for which there's a lot of competition and the job itself involves a great deal of responsability, in which case go hand-written). Extra tip: upon receiving a written invitation, always make an effort to respond within 24 hours by the same media.
Of course, the hand-written note only makes sense if your hand writing doesn't look like 90 percent of other guys, which is to say terrible.
A year from now you'll wish you started today