If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you’ve likely seen Usain Bolt in an amusing Michelob commercial where he directs joggers into a bar by striking his double-pointing victory pose and mugging for the camera. Like the athlete himself, the Fastest Man in the World’s signature is speedy and impressive—from his outsized capitals that project his outsized image to the Zorro-like embellishment so reminiscent of his trademark stance. This pen-flair creatively serves to both cross his t and slash his name with an image of lightning speed. Such a signature makes a big impression, but it’s always worth bearing in mind that one’s signature is merely the sign of one’s nature as they wish to be seen by the world. “Behind the scene is where everything is done,” Bolt famously said, and this crossing out of his name, tantamount to self-abasement in handwriting analysis, tells me that he works every day to overcome some form of self-doubt. That’s how he got where he is. Whether or not his signature reflects the real man behind the image depends on whether or not it matches the rest of his writing. I haven’t seen it, and therefore I can’t say.
