Template Theory Changes Your Mindset

If there are patterns of people, can you escape the patterned behavior?

Aimée Sparrow
2 min readSep 18, 2024
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We all know that types of people follow patterns or programming that makes them easily predictable. Once you know someone’s type, you know their behavior, motivations, and predicted actions. Many of us calculate these things subconsciously.

Template theory comes from information theory and the simulation hypothesis. When a person’s initial template is generated using astrology, genetics, and exposure to the environment, the end result needs to be simplified to save on information storage.

Human beings are capable of a select group of templates. People like me who notice this early get to choose who we really are and not be affected by rules of behavior, which can be both a good and bad thing. It allows us to be outside of standardization and to appear authentic.

When one authentic free thinker with an open mind finds another, an explosion goes off in their minds if awareness kicks in, and it is evident the meeting can lead to incredible insight and exchange of information. However, when one person is strictly in the writer template, they might not speak their inner thoughts as easily, making the encounters more generic or superficial unless creative thinking produces something that each…

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Aimée Sparrow

An explorer of the philosophy behind psychology and what we dream to inspire peace and solace from suffering. aimee.sparrowling@gmail.com