Most kids do not aspire to success on the football pitch.
And they aspire to success with specific goals in mind: medicine, law, engineering and pharmacy.
"If you scratch just a little, you find that most great writers aspired to success on the stage," said Jonathan Bank, the Mint's artistic director.
It dramatizes the story of a young student who aspires to success, earns a degree and position, but callously turns his back on the girl who faithfully loves him.
The Advancement of Women," Virginia Valian, a psychology and linguistics professor at Hunter College, wrote, "A woman who aspires to success needs to worry about being ignored; each time it happens she loses prestige and the people around her become less inclined to take her seriously".
The report added that some want to work in music or television, but only aspire to success as a singer or actress rather than considering the other paths in those industries.
Women aspire to success just as much as men do, and define it similarly.
Kasser & Ryan (1993) found that people aspiring to financial success achieve less self-actualization and vitality and suffer more depression and heightened anxiety.
But that doesn't explain why she triumphed while thousands of other men and women never rose so high despite aspiring to similar success.
There is much of interest in the paper, but for those aspiring to scientific success, one result stands out: "Skipping even a single year," of publishing, the authors noted in the paper, "substantially affected the average citation impact".
While aspiring to solo success, she lived the life of Los Angeles auditions, taking occasional modeling jobs, shooting periodic commercials and accepting an international tour dancing for Latin superstars Marc Anthony and Cheyenne.
