Geek Origins

Before he broke world records, Usain Bolt was just a mischievous kid racing barefoot through the streets. But has anything really changed since then?

She was the kid who wrote songs in her notebook while other kids played at recess. Today, she’s one of the biggest stars in the world. But did she ever change?

She wasn’t just a child with talent. She was a kid who ran miles while singing and rehearsed until midnight, all to chase a dream she never let go of.

What if the world’s greatest Olympian was never chasing medals, but chasing the same childhood obsession that once helped him find peace?

Before James Cameron made billion-dollar blockbusters, he was just a kid building submarines out of cardboard and dreaming of alien worlds. Some dreams never fade.

From hacking phone lines as a teen to mapping space debris today, Steve Wozniak’s story proves a true geek never really grows up.

She started by preaching to farm animals at age three, and today she moves millions with her words. So, is Oprah still the same storytelling geek she once was?

Before she built a billion-dollar wizarding world, J.K. Rowling was just a quiet kid writing stories about sick rabbits and cursed diamonds, so what changed and what didn’t?

What if the man behind Mario and Zelda never really grew up, but instead turned his childhood adventures into billion-dollar playgrounds?

Keanu Reeves wasn’t just acting in sci-fi. He was living it long before Hollywood noticed.