Rima Grace

Yeah, maybe.

Maybe this is my last year of working.

After talking with Jeff, I can't stop thinking about the millions of workers with retirement accounts just sitting there that are ignored or forgotten.

I'm still on a mission to figure out what happened to mine.

And I'll also look at why our brains love to avoid these kinds of tasks and how we can trick ourselves into doing them anyway.

That's after the break.

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Welcome back to This is Uncomfortable.

I'm Rima Grace.

This week, I'm trying to track down my old retirement accounts from my first two jobs in my early 20s, which led me to meet up with our producer, Alice Wilder, and start making some more calls.

Because after digging through some old paperwork, I eventually tracked down the name of one of the retirement administrators I'm pretty sure I had an account with.

His voice is so funny.

Oh, I don't know if I should put my old zip code or my current one.

Not gonna lie, I was tempted to hang up and try again later.

But in that moment, I thought, why?

Why is my brain working overtime to get me out of this?

I'll tell you how this phone call ends later in the episode, but first, I really wanted to dig into the psychology.

So I called up Katie Milkman.