Aspiration benefit
Lifetime Aspiration Benefits become available to Sims as they fill their Lifetime aspiration bar. There are four areas in which these can be spent: motives, work, primary aspiration and secondary aspiration. Benefits must be gained in order per category. Children can only spend points in the motives and work categories until they choose a primary aspiration when they become a teen.
Benefits which slow motive decay are cumulative. For example, if a Sim has the first benefit in the Motives category, and is given the first benefit for the Knowledge aspiration, his or her Social motive will decay even slower.
Motives
Slower Motive Decay - Social and Comfort
Sitting in a coffee shop with a friend is a great way to unwind, but you've learned there are times when a responsible Sim has to ignore their desire for social interaction and comfort.
Slower Motive Decay - Bladder and Hygiene
For some vain Sims, personal hygiene can take up hours per day. You, however, exhibit the effortless perfection that only the truly self-confident can pull off.
Slower Motive Decay - Fun and Hunger
Like most Sims, you love slacking off with a bag of chips in front of the TV. However, you're mature enough to know you need to take care of all your responsibilities before giving in to such temptation.
Slower Motive Decay - Energy
When those around you seem to drag through life like as groggy zombies, it's easy for someone as happy and healthy as you to feel energized all through the day.
Work
Life of Luxury
No matter how career-oriented a Sim may be, vacation days keep their morale up and their head clear. Your employers value you so much that they let you build vacation days much faster than your colleagues.
Business Instinct
While some Sims may try to weigh the pros and cons of every decision, the profits often go to whoever makes the right choice the fastest. You always go with your gut, and your career chance card choices are right eighty percent of he time, every time.
Friends in High Places
When you're buddies with an executive, you get promoted even though nobody else likes you! Your friend requirement for any promotion in any career is reduced by one.
Plead for Job
Ability to plead to the boss via the phone for 24 hours after being fired[1]
Family
Grandma's Comfort Soup
A family recipe passed down through generations, this savory soup increases the comfort of any Sim who eats it. It also cures the Sim of any sickness they may have.
Slower Motive Decay - Fun and Comfort
Any good parent knows they need to put the needs of their family before their own. To ensure that your family gets the most fun and comfort you can provide, you're willing to forego some in your own life.
Plead with The Social Worker
Every parent makes mistakes, but it is possible to get a second chance at raising your kids. If the social worker comes to collect your kids as a result of poor parenting, you'll have a chance to plead your case with her. The higher relationship you have with your kids, the more likely she is to hold off on taking them away.
Super Fertility
What could be more adorable than a new bundle of joy in the family? A matched set! You or your partner have a greatly increased chance of giving birth to twins when becoming pregnant.
Fortune
Skilled Negotiator
Fortune-minded Sims are naturals at the fine art of haggling, and what negotiation could be more important than the one for your salary? Your ruthless nature nets you a hefty bump in salary compared to other Sims.
Slower Motive Decay - Fun and Comfort
If there's any place you should never find an aspiring millionaire, it's on the couch watching TV. While other Sims slack off, you're willing to shortchange fun and comfort in favor of that next big check.
Financial Advice for Cash
When people get the idea that you're an expert at something, it's a very simple matter to sucker them into giving you some of their money. The Give Financial Advice interaction, available on any computer, allows you to make money every hour from the comfort of your office.
Investing
For a smart Sim with good instincts, playing the stock market can seem like making money out of thin air. Each afternoon, you'll have a chance to gain or lose some of your family funds. If other members of your household have this benefit, your chances of making a profit are increased.
Knowledge
Slower Motive Decay - Social and Fun
While other Sims spend their time at parties and on dates, you've got your priorities in order for a lifetime of learning. You still like to watch TV or talk on the phone from time to time, but not as often as other Sims.
Impart Knowledge
You've spent so much of your life with your nose in a book that you can practically substitute for one. This interaction, under the Talk... menu, lets you offer to teach another Sim a skill you know well. Sims can also use the Ask... menu to request that you can give them a lesson.
Eureka!
There are left-brained Sims, and there are right-brained Sims, and then there's you. By thinking with both hemispheres of your brain, you experience moments of clarity that make your learning rate much faster than those other half-brained types.
Summon Aliens
What knowledge could be more tantalizing than that of life on another planet? This interaction, available on all telescopes, allows you to attempt to hitch a ride on any flying saucers that happen to be passing by.
Popularity
Hospitality
Being the outgoing and gregarious Sim that you are, you're always quick to invite a new friend into your home. You are more likely to bring home a friend from work or school.
Slower Motive Decay - Bladder and Energy
A true party Sim knows that going to the bathroom or falling asleep is the surest way to miss a party's best moment. You avoid heeding the call of nature and you think sleeping is best left to babies and cats.
3-Way Calling
While a standard conversation may be enough stimulation for a normal Sim, the true social butterfly prefers a conference call. During a phone conversation with another Sim, you can use the phone to call a third Sim, and build relationship with both.
Fast Friends
A truly open-minded socialite, you value friendship with any and all Sims who cross your path. Your positive relationship gains with other Sims are always larger than those of Sims without this benefit.
Romance
Massive Attraction
If there's one thing you know how to do, it's strike up a conversation with a hot stranger. Using a combination psychology, wit, and sheer animal magnetism, you create a large boost in chemistry with any Sim you meet.
Slower Motive Decay - Hygiene and Energy
The hallmark of a true romance Sim is their ability to not only stay up all night, but to look and smell great for the duration. You can spend less time on sleep and hygiene, which frees you up for... other pursuits.
Local Legend
There comes a time in every Casanova's life when their reputation begins to precede them. Word of your romantic prowess has spread through town, and neighbors of your preferred gender are most likely to be found "coincidentally" strolling past your house.
Smooth Talk
Every romance Sim worth their salt knows the second most important thing to getting a lover is keeping them. The Smooth Talk interaction is useful not only to build relationship quickly with a potential romantic interest, but it also smooths things over a Sim who is Furious with you.
Pleasure
Fast Metabolism
With all the dining out you do, it'd be easy to let your phusique fall into disrepair. Lucky for you, you've got those enviable genes that let you keep in tip-top shape with just an occasional workout. You burn off fat much faster than normal Sims.
Slower Motive Decay - Bladder and Energy
To keep up a lifestyle of constant partying and late nights on the town, self discipline is the key. You've mastered the brutal art of the mid-week allnighter, and you neighbor's brother's friend's cousin claims he once saw you stand in line for a club's bathroom for six hours without even breaking a sweat.
Write Restaurant Guide
After spending thousands and thousands of Simoleons on dinner and drinks over the years, you've come up with a plan to recoup some of your costs. This interaction, available on any computer, lets you turn your food enthusiasm and cooking skill into guides that can be sold to a publisher.
Rowdy Folk Song
Between all late-night party animals there seems to be a shared knowledge of a song that won't be found in any book or jukebox. You have no memory of how you learned it, but it's a great way to build relationships with a large group of fellow revelers.
Secondary Aspiration
Choosing a second aspiration (other than the first aspiration) will grant the Sim wants and fears of the secondary aspiration and allow its first three benefits to be selected.