Sunday, 16 November 2025

THE BOY WHO SOLD BROKEN RADIOS

In a small Nigerian town lived a young boy named Daniel.
He wasn’t the smartest in school, and he didn’t come from a wealthy home. But he had something many people didn’t notice - a powerful desire to change his life.

Every weekend, Daniel would visit an old scrapyard where people dumped broken electronics. One day, he picked up a dusty, cracked radio. Everyone laughed at him.

“Why carry nonsense?” they said.
“It can never work again.”

But Daniel didn’t listen. He carried the radio home, opened it, studied the parts, watched videos on his small phone, and tried fixing it.

It didn’t work the first day.
It didn’t work the second day.
But on the third day… the radio came alive.

The same people who mocked him were shocked.

Word spread. People started bringing their spoilt TVs, fans, phones, and radios to him.
Daniel repaired everything with patience, consistency, and YouTube tutorials.

By the time he finished secondary school, the “boy who carried nonsense” had opened a small repair shop. At 22, he was training others and making enough money to support his family.

One day, someone asked him:

“How did you become successful?”

He smiled and replied:

“I stopped listening to people who were doing nothing… and started working on myself.”


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