Using Jedi mind tricks to beat procrastination: Turns out one of the most useful ways to get yourself into new habits is to underestimate yourself and lower your standards, entrepreneur and podcast king Tim Ferriss tells BigThink (watch, runtime: 10:20) . Plan for only 5-10 minutes at the gym for three days a week, not an hour for five days a week, he says. The idea is to not feel like you’re failing, and avoid performance anxiety. Other tricks include avoiding Parkinson’s Law (work will fill whatever time you set for it) by setting yourself patterns of working for 25 minutes and five minute breaks, social accountability for you work, especially with financial incentives involved.

_StoryHed_! How the tiny nation of Fiji won an Olympic gold medal

The most unbelievable story in rugby: The first Fijians to ever win a medal at the Olympics were the rugby sevens team, who won gold in Rio. The extreme devotion — to their nation and their sport — of the team from the tiny island nation (along with their uncanny singing ability) has captured the world’s imagination, creating one of the best sports-related feel-good stories we’ve come across in a while, captured in a short documentary. Talking about the peculiar Fijian style of play, Coach Ben Ryan says: “The way we play, through chaos comes order … we play a chaotic game, but for us, that’s an ordered game. We know what we’re doing… We are so unpredictable to other teams.” The spirit of the Fijian team, from preparing for the Rio Olympics up until winning it, shows throughout, and as Ryan puts it “I’ve never had a group of players that have laughed as much and are as happy. They’re probably the poorest group of players I’ve ever coached as well, yet they’re certainly the happiest… they’re really resilient, they’re robust.” Fiji thrashed Great Britain in the final in Rio 43-7 (full match here). (runtime 17:27).