If someone can predict how you drew those circles, they are not reading your mind. We are all running much the same small programmes.

What the research says

A meta-analysis of how emotion regulation strategies relate to one another found that they fall into a few broad families, so people are mostly running variations of the same handful of approaches rather than each inventing their own. That is a claim about how the measures cluster and not about what anyone ought to do. It does still make the point that these patterns are common property.

Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.