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All the gold stars : reimagining ambition and the ways we strive

Stauffer, Rainesford (author.).

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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  • ISBN: 0306830337
  • ISBN: 9780306830334
  • Physical Description: v, 282 pages ; 22 cm.
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group, 2023.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282).
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Subject: Burn out (Psychology) Social aspects United States
Ambition Social aspects United States
Genre: Self-help publications.

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  • 4 of 5 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Altoona Area Public Library 302.54 STA (Text) 33240004695972 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 302.54 S798a (Text) 85131001886549 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults 302.54 STA Nonfiction (Text) 34001001440807 Adult Area Checked Out 05/06/2024
Gettysburg Library 302.54 STAUFFER (Text)
Endowment: Robert K. Shuey Named Endowment, 2023
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Easton Main Library 302.54 S798a (Text) 31901004726719 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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