I have thousands of these stories. The only reason why I understand so many things today is because I dare asking stupid questions, and I do it a lot.

During my master, one of the students laughed out loud after I asked a question during class. I told him "there are no stupid questions" and he replied "your question was stupid though". Guess who ended up with the better job.

In my previous job some guy berated me publicly (on slack) for asking too many questions.