50 exits for exit strategies
An exit strategy has as much to do with making an entrance as to how one leaves. In a Ma-kin sense chat we share 50 exits for exit strategies.
Exit stage left, followed by a bear
Remember the importance of roller-skates, exit through dizziness of freedom
Bricolage it, create a collage and exit out of the linear narrative
Dramatically dance your way out. Alternatively, strut or waltz but never look back
Style it out like Elvis and have already left
Houdini it
Move together like an out-of-tune symphony, you will find a new rhythm
Ask “what are we leaving?”
Realize exits are all about, timing
Accept that we are not good at the duration
Make it enjoyable with a narrative and some plot twists
Read the end first and then go back to the beginning
Escape
Pivot
Ricochet
Appreciate the importance of the entrance as much as the exit
Take the emergency exits, they can be found here, here and here
Choose a top-down, bottom-up or both approach
Check if you’re running away or running towards
Ask “what is waiting on the other side”
Take a long goodbye, “nothing says goodbye like a bullet”
Make an entrance when you exit
Avoid
Make sure the management does not hinder your exit and entrance
Chose a quiet goodbye
Take the trap door
Have a big send-off
Dig a tunnel - like Danny the ‘Tunnel King’
Notice if you exit through a different door to the one you came in through
Make your movement desirable
Ask permission or just adopt freedom
Perceive it as a cycle and not linear
Take someone with you who needs it more than you
Find out who is in charge, it is usually everyone and no one
Detect who is on the inside and who is on the outside
Accept that this situation is finite
Notice the residue on the exit
Pay attention to those who are prepping us to be sold on to the next thing
A possible a side effect of exiting is PTSD
Notice that discomfort you’re feeling is grief
Put the valid ticket in the machine and allow the barrier to lift
Perform it but notice the unkept promises
Hug for 20 minutes on arrival
Sell a hug for a $1 on departure
Go up a mountain
Get back in touch with what we are out of touch with
Queer it and make the world strange – go with the warp
Prepare your finale costume and perform to an empty stage
If all else fails rush and peril
Exit.
A listical inspired from Ma-kin sense conversation on the phrase "Exit Strategy". The group of reflectors: John O’Reilly, Laura Cloke, Catherine Smith, Rachel Marsden, Laurie Atkins and Katherine Simpson.