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When retirement planning creates existential dread

I have been saving for retirement for twenty years and the number still feels impossibly small and I lie awake calculating how many more years I need to work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to secure the future paradoxically generates anxiety about time running out.

Ideas that help explain it
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