I’m also a scientist. I very much agree with this, I even think you have an enormous advantage over colleagues who avoid feeling stupid! There is so much intere

I’m also a scientist. I very much agree with this, I even think you have an enormous advantage over colleagues who avoid feeling stupid! There is so much interesting stuff that makes you feel stupid. I have to admit though, it took me until about 35 in age to being able to say to myself: “You know, if you don't understand something, it because it’s hard.” Total game changer for my attitude. Before that I relied a bit on a certain naïveté, as a biologist among physicists I was sometimes called “Stupid biologist”, I guess it helped seeing it as the joke that it probably was for the most part.