Motimagz Magazine

22/11/2025

What Do You Learn From This?

14/11/2025

“You connect the dots by looking backward…” he said. Most people think history is a dead subject. It is commonly said that if we do not learn from history, we are bound to repeat it. When he dropped out of college, he studied calligraphy.

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15/09/2025

Until the work is finished, don’t talk about it.

14/09/2025

LeBron James on the mindset that shapes his life

06/09/2025

30/08/2025

The biggest scam: “Work hard, save money, retire at 65.”
Inflation eats your savings.
Banks profit from your deposits.
You retire when you’re too old to live.

30/08/2025

No matter your age, you'll always wish you started younger. But today is the youngest you'll ever be.

30/08/2025

"I always make sure I hire people smarter than me." ~~~ Aliko Dangote

27/08/2025

Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience.

26/08/2025

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." ~~~ Steve Jobs

25/08/2025

"Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation." ~ Strive Masiyiwa

23/08/2025

A monk goes out on a boat in a small lake to meditate. After a few hours of uninterrupted silence, he suddenly feels the jarring impact of another boat bumping into his.

While he does not open his eyes, he feels the irritation and anger building within him.
"Why would someone do that? Can't they see me here? How dare they disturb my meditation?"

He opens his eyes, ready to shout at the person in the other boat, only to realize that it is empty. It had come untied from the dock and was floating in the middle of the lake.

In that moment, his anger and frustration disappears. After all, you cannot be angry at an empty boat.

The story offers a powerful lesson, which is called the Empty Boat Mindset:
In life, you're going to experience countless collisions. With people. With environments. With chance circumstances outside your control.

Each of these collisions will threaten to derail you. To stoke the fire of anger, stress, and frustration. To knock vou off vour path.

The truth is that the negative emotions that grow inside you are rarely from the collision itself, but from your perception of the negative intent behind the collision.
If you convince yourself that every collision is a deliberate action by a bad actor, negative emotions will control your entire life.

In others words, your interpretation of the collision creates your own poison.
The Empty Boat Mindset is the reminder that most of these collisions you experience in life are with an empty boat. There is no negative intent.

There is no desire to harm. They are simply the random collisions of objects floating along on the lake of life.
Interestingly, when you embrace the Empty Boat Mindset, you reassume control over your own boat.

You're no longer prone to the spiraling emotional effects of chance collisions. You are a seasoned explorer, ready to adapt to whatever the seas throw your way.