Rites of passage are an important part of the transition from youth to adulthood—but we’ve lost them, along with other critical large parts of our social fabric.

Without strong rituals to show that a young person has become something new in the community as an adult, why should we be surprised so many young people never feel fully grown up?

I explore this concept in my upcoming book The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion. Pre-order it today: