All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive Stauffer Rainesford
All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive Stauffer Rainesford From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where…
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All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive Stauffer Rainesford
From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.Ambition--the want, the hunger, the need to achieve--is woven into America's fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. Even as we burn out. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the "right" college to hustle and grinding our lives, we celebrate our drive, even as we gatekeep who is permitted to strive--and how visibly.
When we know: work won't love us back.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. When we can't even. Through the devastating personal narrative of her own