Can We Aspire to Aspire?

One can aspire to be an infinite set of things: a great football player, a more generous person, a fluent reader of Tibetan, a president, a resistance fighter, or a criminal mastermind. One can also aspire to be happier with oneself, more self-accepting, less driven (paradoxically, less aspirational.)

But can one aspire to be a more aspiring person, more…