Welcome back, everybody, to Religion on the Mind.

I am your host, Dr. Dan Koch, licensed therapist.

On my way, as it turns out, to licensed psychologist.

And that is what today's episode, and if all goes

according to plan, a bunch of future episodes will primarily be about. So here's kind of what's going on.

When you are on the road to becoming a psychologist, as I am, there's nothing above licensed psychologist. You could also

be something else in another field, but it's kind of like it's the terminal licensure. It's the,

it's sort of the top spot that you can get to. And since I started my doctoral grad program,

that has been the goal all along. And I've always

planned to get all the way to that top spot. Now, like a medical doctor who has to pass

their boards or like a lawyer who has to pass the state bar, if you want to become a licensed psychologist,

you have to pass the E triple P. People study for months and months, even if they've been in school

for years and years. So I am beginning this long study process. And I've done, I've done a couple like workshops and things

like that to make sure that I'm kind of using my time well. And there's this recurrent theme

in the research around, you know, test taking, learning. And everybody says some variation of

the same thing. The best way to show that you, or to make

sure that you really absorb it is to know it well enough that you can explain it in general

language to a non-specialist. Now, dear listener, you might think what I thought immediately, huh, I wonder if I might try something

with the podcast, which is, you know, among other things, a place to explain psychological concepts

in plain language to non-specialists. So I'm going to take some of the concepts that I am

reading through that I think also have interesting applications to religion. And I'm going to

basically share with you the simple language version of these concepts. And then I'm going to do a little additional research for those

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