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

"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"--