Small Acts of Analysis: Revisiting Your Own Words To Uncover Changes In Life

I analyzed my writing from two months: March 2023 and March 2024: I kept writing about time, "hope" fell out of my top 5, and other discoveries that provided perspectives...and how you can do it, too.

Going back to school has rekindled my love for analysis and I’ve been so curious about how I can apply it to different aspects of my life, especially my writing. Yesterday, I conducted a little experiment using a free text analysis tool to identify the most frequently used words in a set of my writing of two months: March 2023 and March 2024. The result…