I often have people asking two questions in a row, with the first one being “Ven, can I ask a stupid question?”, followed by their actual question. Sometimes I’m like, can I say No?
I sometimes will tell people this: “The only ‘stupid’ questions are those that are not asked!” 
Sometimes we really do not know enough to ask questions; other times we are unconsciously stifled by ourselves to ask questions. We should learn more like kids. Kids will ask anything that comes to mind. There may be many reasons for this, and I reckon, is in part due to A) an openness of their mind to see various aspects of the subject matter and B) the absence of embarrassment of asking.
Their openness is in turn likely due to an absence of assumptions about how things should or should not be while their absence of embarrassment is due to an absence of assumption of who they are and what they should or should not know. As kids grow up, they learn more and more about this world. What they learn become part of their experience of how things are. These become patterns that . . . → Read More: The only 'stupid' questions are … …
