Sign Your Name In Big Fat Letters

The age John Hancock signed his name into history, and what I learned living on his street

John Hancock was 39 years old when he signed the Declaration of Independence.

Young enough to have something to lose. Old enough to know exactly what he was risking.

If the revolution failed, that signature was a death sentence. Every man in the room knew the punishment for treason.

Hancock signed first anyway. Before anyone else committed. And he wrote hi…