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I crossed another milestone 2 weeks ago - 20K followers on TikTok!

It took me about 4 months to grow to 10K and then 23 days to grow to 20K…

And this week, I also signed my first significant brand deal!

(Can't share the deets yet but let's just say it's more than the $34 I made from my first month in the TikTok Creator Fund 😂).

I was telling a friend of mine about this and she said, "OMG you’re so lucky!"

Lucky?!

Friends, let me tell you about the 157 videos I posted, the 100+ that flopped, the emails and DMs I sent that got ignored, and the daily panic sessions wondering if I was wasting my time.

Which brings me to today's topic: Engineering your own damn luck.

Because what led me here is a deep realisation I had back in March that luck isn't some mystical force that randomly blesses certain people.

It's literal maths… and ChatGPT can be your multiplier.

TL;DR - today’s lineup:

1. One Smart Strategy 💡: 6 ways to engineer luck with ChatGPT (aka how to make "right place, right time" happen on purpose).

2. Copy-Paste Prompt  🤖: My "Lucky Break Detector" prompt that spots opportunities hiding in plain sight.

3. Time‑Saver Tool ⏱️: A Chrome extension that makes your AI results 10x better (not an ad, just a tool I’m loving).

4. Piping  Hot  AI  Tea 🫖: 4 must-know AI stories - AI vs doctors, AI vs music and AI vs mass layoffs.

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6 Unhinged Strategies To Engineer Good Luck With ChatGPT

If you're into manifestation then I want to introduce you to its grown-up, strategic cousin: "Luck Engineering".

Luck Engineering is all about stacking the odds in your favour on purpose, and you do that by:

1. Taking more shots

2. Throwing yourself at more opportunities

3. Making smarter bets so that "luck" isn't random anymore

4. Doing + telling people that you’re doing

ChatGPT can be a kind of luck multiplier because it gives you the power to move faster, try more things, and see patterns you'd otherwise miss.

So here are 6 ideas to help you engineer luck with ChatGPT:

1. Reverse-Engineer Successful People's "Luck Patterns" 

• Analyse the breakthrough moments of 10 successful individuals you admire

• Map the actions they took in the moths/years before "getting lucky"

• Create a playbook of their pre-luck behaviours

• This is about understanding what they were doing that nobody noticed until they blew up

Analyse [successful person's] career trajectory. What 'boring' actions did they repeat 100+ times before their breakthrough? Create my 90-day pre-luck protocol to help me achieve [this goal] based on these patterns.

**This works best if it’s a public individual and you toggle on the Web Search feature. If it’s a less public individual, you might need to feed their career information to ChatGPT yourself.

2. Find Your Niche of One 

If you’re creating content online (which I HIGHLY recommend for engineering more luck), stop competing where everyone else is. Find your weird combo that places you where there is zero competition.

• Take your 3 most random skills/interests/experiences

• Ask ChatGPT to find profitable gaps nobody's serving

• Example: "Accountant + Excel + Dating Advice" = Teaching spreadsheet formulas for tracking dating apps

When you combine 3 unrelated things, you mathematically create a space where there are ZERO competitors.

Instead of fighting for scraps in "social media tips" (10 million creators). You're the ONLY person serving “Excel formulas for singletons who want to find love”.

Your weird combo is naturally YOU. Nobody can copy it because they don't have your exact mix. This means:

• Your content ideas flow effortlessly (you're living it)

• You attract the RIGHT opportunities (aligned with who you actually are)

• You can sustain it long-term (no burnout from pretending)

(side note: I’m still trying to figure out my combo 🤔)

I know about [skill 1], [skill 2], and [skill 3]. Find me 10 specific problems that ONLY someone with this exact combination could solve. Focus on problems people would actually pay to fix. Help me find my "niche of one".

3. Engineer Serendipity Through "Strategic Chaos"

Lucky people don't wait for random opportunities, they create them.

• Give ChatGPT your goal + current resources

• Ask it for 30 unusual micro-actions you'd never think of

• Do one daily for a month without overthinking it

• Track which "random" actions created opportunities

For me it was reaching out to an uncle whom I hadn’t spoken to for a few months (he’s a journalist) that led to a weekly column in the 2nd largest newspaper back home (Malta).

I want to [your goal]. Generate 30 unexpected 5-minute actions I could take this month. Make them specific, slightly uncomfortable, but not crazy. Mix online and offline. Design them strategically to help me engineer lucky opportunities.

4. Turn ChatGPT Into Your 24/7 Hype Man

If there’s one thing that luck hates it’s stalling or stillness.

But doing anything that involves believing in yourself, putting yourself out there and creating stuff (or basically anything that doesn’t involve sitting in the garden with a good book and a glass of Rosé) will constantly throw walls up in your mind.

It is insane how many times I feel the urge to stop and give up.

This is why I turned ChatGPT into my life coach - every time I feel that urge to quit, I use it to psychologically coach myself back into action, over and over again, so that I can stay in motion.

That motion attracts opportunity.

If you’d like my entire prompt library for turning ChatGPT into your hype man, you can grab it below:

5. Become Immune To Rejection

Very often, the secret of “lucky” people is just that they keep going after rejection. “No” just isn’t a stumbling block for them.

But it’s not enough to just "learn from rejection" - you need to systematically extract luck from it:

• Feed ChatGPT the rejection + context

• Get 5 counter-intuitive ways to improve your odds of getting a yes

• Think of follow-up strategies that leave the door open

Example: Got rejected by dream client → ChatGPT spots they mentioned budget timing → set a timer to reach out 3 months later → land bigger contract.

I just got rejected from [situation]. Help me find the hidden gold. Give me: 1) What they actually said no to (vs what I offered), 2) 3 clues about timing/fit I missed, 3) 5 new doors this specific rejection just opened, 4) My follow-up strategy to turn this no into a yes.

6. Write Your Future History

Make ChatGPT write your success story backwards to engineer the path.

• Describe your "lucky break" as if it already happened

• Have ChatGPT reverse-engineer the 20 small things that led there

• Start doing those things now

You're literally creating the breadcrumbs to your own success.

It's [FUTURE DATE]. I just [achieved specific goal] and everyone's calling me lucky. Write the real story of the 20 unsexy things I did starting today that made this 'luck' inevitable. Be specific about timeline and actions. Explain why each action mattered later.

Luck engineering definitely requires hard work, but it’s more about positioning yourself where luck has no choice but to find you… gaming the system of serendipity.

What’s one of these tips you’re going to try?

Hit reply - I’d really really really like to know 🙏

The “Lucky Break Detector” Prompt

This prompt helps you manufacture your own luck by spotting hidden opportunities already sitting in your current projects, observations, and daily experiences. Use this when you feel like you're working hard but not gaining momentum, it will help you connect dots you didn't even know existed.

You are my strategic opportunity analyst. I'm going to share what's happening in my world right now - my projects, observations, and random thoughts. Your job is to spot the hidden opportunities.

Current situation:
[Describe what you're working on, what you've noticed, any frustrations or wins]

Industry/niche context:
[Share what's trending in your space]

Please analyze this and:

1. Identify 3 "lucky break" opportunities that already exist but I'm not seeing
2. Suggest 2 low-effort experiments I could try THIS WEEK that might create unexpected results
3. Show me how to combine 2+ things I mentioned in unexpected ways
4. Give me 1 contrarian approach that goes against what everyone else is doing
5. Write me 3 different "lucky" scenarios and the exact steps to engineer each one

Be specific. No generic advice. I want tactical moves that could create real momentum.

Sider - Chrome extension

This is a handy little Chrome extension I came across this week that allows you to compare AI results across multiple LLMs (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini. You can ask questions and get answers from all bots But it has also has lots of other useful features, like:

• Group AI Chat - toss a query into a shared thread and watch how each model tackles it.

• Smart page tools - highlight text on any webpage (or even YouTube captions and PDFs) to instantly translate, summarise, or explain it.

And more…

Try Sider here >

(not an ad, just sharing tools I come across that I like)

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See you next Tuesday,

Jess xx