That's... really awesome. When I started reading I thought maybe you'd go into the standard gamification with giving yourself awards for accomplishing tasks and such, but your methods are more abstract and (IMO) a whole lot cooler. I'd be careful saying that too loud around these parts... Not that I disagree.Avoid actual rpgs, though.
But see this way knowledge is literally its own reward. Which, incidentally, makes it a really cheap hobby. I don't understand spending time on an rpg when you could just be your own. I mean, I do, like escapism and path of least resistance stuff, but, hell. It's way more fun when the results are real. If pokemon actually existed I'd never do anything else, but they don't. God I'm preachy tonight. Time to go do something productive instead.