TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stauffer,Rainesford
TI  - All the gold stars: reimagining ambition and the ways we strive 
SN  - 9780306830334
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
KW  - Ambition
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Burn out (Psychology)
KW  - Self-help publications
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282); I'll go first: an introduction -- So you're calling me a striver, and some thoughts on sin -- Life's good behavior chart -- Schoolhouse rock (and a hard place) -- Parental guidance suggested -- "Just" a hobby -- A ticking time bomb -- Nine to... forever -- When gold stars shatter -- Good for something -- Pal around -- Worked up -- Take good care -- All that glitters
N2  - "All the Gold Stars looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart. Through the devastating personal narrative of her own ambition crisis, Stauffer discovers the common factors driving us all, peeling back layers of family expectations, capitalism, and self-esteem that dangerously tie up our worth in our output"--
ER  -