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Jess Kelly: When asking the stupid question is the smart thing to do

We need to give ourselves permission to not be the smartest person in the room, writes Jess Kelly

Asking an apparently obvious question can be a strength, not a weakness

I don’t know what it is about this time of year, but it always makes me nostalgic for school. Last month, I told you about the ‘green committee’ we had in secondary school and I have another memory to share with you now.

I used to love science but rarely, if ever, got an A in the exams. I was never one of those kids who could just absorb information and regurgitate it on an ...