Graduate school in clinical psychology is the ultimate test of synaptic pruning—those who successfully optimize their training experiences while weeding out unhelpful information come out as mature clinical psychologists. In my most formative professional years, I have relied on the work and opinions of my mentors and other researchers (many of them members and leaders of this SIG) to inform my research ideas. In this article—in light of the SIG’s 10th anniversary—I will shar