Chapter 1. Just Another Young Adult Finding Their Way In recent years, there has been an increased focus on the 'quarter life' period of human life, roughly defined as the late teens to mid thirties. In the past, it used to be assumed that people went straight from being a teenager to being an adult. However, it has been recently recognized that there is a period of transition, in which there are certain things that need to be navigated and resolved. Some have described this as recognizing a new 'life stage', similar to how the teenage life stage was first recognized by academics and society alike many decades ago.
There has been particular study of the 'quarter life crisis', a phenomenon where young adults go through a crisis that looks a bit similar to a mid-life crisis. This phenomenon has often been blamed on recent economic developments, like 7
