TikTok’s ‘Lucky Girl Syndrome’, explained

Where did the ‘lucky girl syndrome’ come from?

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It all started last December, when creator Laura Galebe shared a video explaining how she gets “the most insane opportunities” as a result of simply “expecting great things” to happen, and encouraged people to “be delusional”. “The secret is to assume and believe it before the concrete proof shows up. Be delusional,” she notes in the caption of her video.

A couple of weeks later, a TikTok video with two college girls explaining their experience with lucky girl syndrome went viral. The clip, which currently has more than five million views, features the pair explaining how everything – from passing their exams to getting their rooms of choice in their house share – seems to work out in their favour by repeating the phrase “I’m so lucky, everything just works out for me”.

Now, from new job opportunities to clinching Taylor Swift concert tickets, other TikToker users have shared about their success with the lucky girl affirmation. At present, the hashtag #luckygirlsyndrome on TikTok has amassed over 205 million views.

How does the ‘lucky girl syndrome’ trend work?

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Lucky girl syndrome is essentially manifesting that is focused on luck.

All you have to do is chant the phrase “I am so lucky; everything always works out for me” or alternatively, “things are always working out for me, no matter how it looks at any point in time”, and that’s it – all you have to do is sit back and wait for things to work out. The simplicity of the trend is one of the main reasons for its popularity.

Some manifestation coaches on TikTok also recommend saying the affirmations out loud, writing the affirmations on sticky notes and pasting them around your space as a reminder, or recording the affirmations and listening to them as you fall asleep as that’s when your subconscious mind is most susceptible to reprogramming beliefs.

What is the trend based on?

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The lucky girl syndrome is actually based on the law of assumption. Author Neville Goddard explained the principle in his book The Law of Assumption: An Essential Lesson, noting that in short, the law of assumption works whereby removing limiting beliefs and shifting your consciousness will allow whatever we assume to come true for it’s already ours.

This is the same mindset behind the lucky girl syndrome – by visualising being lucky and believing that everything will work out, we’re already on our way to becoming a lucky girl.

Does it actually work?

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Of course, I had to put the ‘lucky girl syndrome’ trend to test. Repeating the mantra is simple enough. In fact, I repeated the phrase so many times to myself throughout researching, pitching, and writing this story.

While nothing miraculous has happened thus far (I have not struck the lottery, for one, nor have I managed to meet Chris Hemsworth), I did notice little things working out for me. I found a spare $10 note floating in the bottom of my bag. I managed to snag the last slice of my favourite cookie at one of my favourite cafes despite there being five people in line in front of me (which I paid for with the aforementioned $10 note). When it was pouring while I was out, the rain stopped when I got off at the station to walk home.

Whether these are simple coincidences or if it’s truly the lucky girl syndrome at work, there’s no harm in trying the trend out. After all, if it makes me the luckiest girl in the world, why not?