Another misconseption is that talking about monads people usually mean 'magic' monads, in first place IO, but also State and more, while other monads like Maybe

Another misconseption is that talking about monads people usually mean 'magic' monads, in first place IO, but also State and more, while other monads like Maybe are not so magic, and common things like lists are also monads, though they don't look magic at all.