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43and I will never be. But mentors have taken my life and molded it. They've guided it through the choppy waters to successful conclusions.Folks, there are people all around you who could be your mentors and you need to find them if you don't have them. They don't have to be smarter than you in every area. They just have to be good at what you want to be good at. See the fact of the matter is, we're all ignorant, just on different subjects, right? But there are people out there who could guide you to your goals. There are several ways to benefit.How you benefit from a mentor.1.Ask questions.Don't be afraid to ask a question. You know the older we get, the more we act like we don't need to know anything. Isn't that foolish? \ purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.\(Proverbs 20:5) If you're going to be a man or woman of understanding, you better learn how to get that bucket down in the deep waters of a wise man's life and pullout that water. The way to do this is by asking questions. I don't know about you, but I have a relatively standard list of questions that I'm ready to ask at the drop of a hat when I'm around wise people who can mentor me. When I'm around people who know something I don't know, who've experienced something I haven't experienced, who can help mold me, I have questions like these:a) %u201cTell me about the greatest decisions you've ever made. b) Tell me about the greatest successes in your life and what you learned from them. c) Tell me about the greatest failure in your life and what you learned from it. d) How do you manage your time? e) How do you handle stress? f) What are the books that you've read that have made the greatest difference in your life?%u201d Mark this well: The true mark of wisdom is the ability to draw good counsel out of other people. When you can do that, it will help you live the maximum life. I read a true story about a fellow who is now preaching, but when he was an intern for a preacher, he was there for an entire year. And he said, \the guy got up and preached and he never preached a dud. Every sermon wasn't just a hit, it was a home run; he just knocked it out of the park. So I went in there to interview him and said, 'I've been with you a year, and you've never messed up, you've never flopped, I want to know