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Corollary: "There's no such thing as a stupid question", because you're not afraid to be wrong. All creative and innovative people are like this, without exception, IMO. As Richard Feynman said in the title of an autobiography: "What do you care what other people think?"

Everybody wins when people leave their egos behind.

Sure. But its not so hard to come up with a question that sounds pretty stupid. What is Monday? Can I eat your shoe for lunch? Why do you have to interview me before hiring me?

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