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| = How to Be Vulnerable =
| | '''Welcome to Wikifesto''' — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve. |
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| Hey. I'm Sheila Bishop, and I'm about to tell you something most comedians won't admit.
| | == What Is This Place? == |
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| I've been doing stand-up for twenty years. Twenty years of making strangers laugh. Twenty years of being the funniest person in the room. And for most of that time, I was miserable. Depressed. Anxious. Barely holding it together.
| | A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public. |
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| The jokes were real. The laughs were real. But underneath? I was dying.
| | Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. '''Wikifesto''' is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where: |
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| Here's the thing about humor: it's armor. Great armor, actually—better than most. People don't dig deeper when you make them laugh. They assume you're fine. They assume you've got it figured out. Meanwhile, you're alone in a hotel room at 2 AM wondering if anyone would notice if you didn't wake up.
| | * ''Stubs'' become ''essays'' become ''movements'' |
| | * Every section can link to its own elaboration |
| | * Readers become contributors become co-authors |
| | * The manifesto grows with its community |
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| I started being vulnerable—really vulnerable—about five years ago. Not on stage at first. In therapy. Then in small conversations. Then, eventually, in my work. And it changed everything.
| | == The Manifestos == |
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| This wiki is about that. About taking off the armor. About letting people see the mess. About discovering that the thing you're most afraid to show is often the thing that connects you.
| | * [[Braided Becoming]] — ''Identity is architecture, not archaeology'' |
| | * [[Against the Discovery of Self]] — ''You are not a hidden treasure waiting to be found'' |
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| == Where to Start == | | == Philosophy == |
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| '''If vulnerability terrifies you:''' | | Philosophy should be done ''with passion, with gusto''. Not locked in ivory towers, but alive in the streets—or at least, alive on the wiki. |
| * [[Why We Hide]] — The armor makes sense. It really does.
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| * [[The Cost of Invincibility]] — What you pay to look like you're fine.
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| * [[Starting Small]] — You don't have to strip naked on day one.
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| '''If you want to open up:'''
| | The stub is not a failure of elaboration. It is an ''invitation''. |
| * [[Choosing Who To Trust]] — Not everyone deserves your vulnerability.
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| * [[The Art of Honest Conversation]] — How to actually say the thing.
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| * [[When Vulnerability Goes Wrong]] — It happens. Here's how to recover.
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| '''If you're struggling:'''
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| * [[Vulnerability And Depression]] — The connection runs deep.
| | <small>''Wikifesto.com — Because ideas deserve to evolve''</small> |
| * [[When Being Seen Feels Dangerous]] — Because sometimes it does.
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| * [[The Loneliness of Masks]] — The price of hiding in plain sight.
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| '''If you want to understand:'''
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| * [[The Strength In Vulnerability]] — Brené Brown was right.
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| * [[Vulnerability In Relationships]] — The only path to real intimacy.
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| * [[Being Vulnerable With Yourself]] — The hardest audience of all.
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| == A Note on This Wiki ==
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| I still make jokes. I'll probably never stop—it's who I am. But now the jokes come from a different place. They're not walls anymore. They're windows.
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| What I've learned is that everyone is hiding something. Everyone has a version of themselves they don't show. And the relief when you finally let someone see—it's like breathing for the first time.
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| This wiki is for the hiders. The pretenders. The ones who are so good at looking okay that no one asks if they actually are. I see you. Because I was you. Sometimes I still am.
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| You don't have to be funny to be here. You just have to be tired of pretending.
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| ''— [[User:Sheila_Bishop|Sheila Bishop]], laughing so I don't cry (and sometimes both)'' | |
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Welcome to Wikifesto — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve.
What Is This Place?[edit]
A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public.
Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. Wikifesto is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where:
- Stubs become essays become movements
- Every section can link to its own elaboration
- Readers become contributors become co-authors
- The manifesto grows with its community
The Manifestos[edit]
Philosophy[edit]
Philosophy should be done with passion, with gusto. Not locked in ivory towers, but alive in the streets—or at least, alive on the wiki.
The stub is not a failure of elaboration. It is an invitation.
Wikifesto.com — Because ideas deserve to evolve
