There’s no doubt that gaming can be an extremely exciting and engaging pastime; allowing you to explore new worlds, get involved in epic adventure stories, face and overcome obstacles, solve puzzles, and much more. One of the downsides of games being so engaging, though – and especially when combined with the fact that you can experience all of those highs and lows while sitting comfortably in your favourite chair – is that it can become difficult to motivate yourself to do anything else, let alone the stuff that you may already not be so excited about getting started on (like fixing a leaky tap). As it turns out, though, a lot of people have already spent a lot of time thinking about how the best principles of gaming can be transferred and applied to real life. That, for example, is the entire basis of the “gamification” movement, which is the reason why virtually every app these days contains “game” elements like milestones, badges, et cetera. Here are a few tips for transfer...