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The advantages of being a mime

a guide for billionaires

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Jim Dalling
Oct 29, 2022
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My Dear fellow Billionaires,1

Let me outline for you

The advantages of being a mime

Corporeal mime is known as the art of physical articulation. Articulation is clear and distinct sounds in speech. Mimes know how to speak clearly and distinctly with their bodies in space.

A mime can make the invisible visible. Walls, balloons, ropes, canoes, elevators and windstorms can be images conjured in the minds of spectators with a few simple actions and principals.

A mime can work from the outside in. By imitating someone else, a mime can pretend to walk a mile in someone’s shoes. This embodied empathy unlocks both informed guesses and sometimes incredible insights.

Imitation is a generous act. Imitation requires a great deal of curiosity, time and attention. This kind of interest - where curiosity, time and attention are combined? That sounds a lot like love.

Mimes see everything in terms of movement.

Disadvantages:

People always trying to put you in a box.

Your  voice is found to be alarming, unexpect…

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