All the gold stars reimagining ambition and the ways we strive
"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 c...
| Main Author: | Stauffer, Rainesford (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
v, 282 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282). |
| ISBN: |
9780306830334 0306830337 |
| Author Notes: |
Rainesford Stauffer is an author, journalist, speaker, and Kentuckian. She's the Work in Progress columnist for Teen Vogue , and wrote a column for Catapult, Gold Stars . Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Scalawag, DAME Magazine , Vox, and other publications. She is the author of An Ordinary Age , and is a 2022-2023 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism. |