In a small area in Port Harcourt, there was a teenage boy named Chuks who loved electronics. While other boys played football after school, Chuks spent his time opening old phones and trying to understand how they worked. Most of the phones he worked on were already broken. People in his area laughed at him. “Why waste time on useless phones?” they would say. But Chuks didn’t stop. He kept learning by trial and error. Sometimes he damaged phones even more. Sometimes he fixed small issues. But he never gave up. One day, a neighbor brought a very expensive phone that had stopped working. Repair shops had rejected it. The owner had already planned to buy a new one. Out of curiosity, they gave it to Chuks. He worked on it carefully for hours. Checked every part. Tried different solutions. Then finally, it turned on. The news spread quickly. People who once laughed at him started bringing their phones to him. Within months, Chuks turned his small hobby into a growing phone repair business. Years later, he trained other young people in his community. When asked how he started, he always smiled and said: “I started with broken things nobody valued.” Many people ignore small beginnings. But skills are built in silence, not in applause. What skill are you currently practicing that others may not understand yet?
