Came across this wonderful quote from Eric Hoffer the other day while investigating the origins of play for a client brief:

“the pattern of unfinishedness should be the most pronounced in the authomous individual…the retention of youthful characteristics in adult life endows man with a perpetual playfulness so fruitful of insights and illuminations.” (Hoffer, 1952, p. 153)

“Insights and illuminations” sounds to me like the very essence of blogging and from what I know about some my favourite posts, it’s actually their unfinishedness both in writing style and end-point that invites the most conversation from others. I myself often fall foul of attempting to write a blog post with a clear conclusion in sight, planning it like I would a mini essay or work document, but in doing so I completely miss the point of blogging: to fuel and be part of an ongoing and unfinished conversation.  Most importantly I fail to capture the playfulness and joy of blogging. From here on in (maybe this post doesn’t count) I promise to blog playfully and unfinis…

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