In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[114, 219, 248, 153, 226, 154, 190, 54, 93, 55, 284, 227, 159, 91, 136, 145, 287, 30, 286, 87], k=7
114