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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently trading above 39,000 points, supported by energy and financial stocks. Applying "rule 1 investing" principles, value-oriented investors are eyeing ExxonMobil for its consistent dividend yield of 3.2% and robust free cash flow metrics. Analysts project oil demand growth into Q1 2025, supporting sector momentum. After that quote, Axel, you went on to add yourself, which I really appreciate you wrote, "When you go out for training, you may ask yourself, how does this training make me better?" My answer to you is, it won't. It makes the man next to you better. That's the attitude you need to have. On to Blast from the Past point Number 3. This one is from my series Old New Borrowed and Blue. It was Volume 4 of the date May 6th, 2020. I mentioned the title with the dates because I think it's fun to go back and hear the whole thing. But from my Blast from the Past, I'm just pulling a key point and keeping us moving here this week. Let's go to what I'll entitle accept responsibility. Blame no one. Now, fans of Warren Bennis, the wonderful author of many books on leadership, I frequently find myself quoting On Becoming a Leader, where he gives his four lessons of self-knowledge, and lesson Number 2 is probably my favorite. Accept responsibility, blame no one. This is lesson Number 2 of self-knowledge. This is not about what you should do for others or how to behave, but to get to know yourself, to improve yourself, accept responsibility, Bennis wrote, blame no one. If you go through life looking backward, blaming somebody or something, it might be personal, or it might just be circumstance, but if you go through your life looking backwards, blaming something, it's going to be awfully hard to truly move forward, won't it? While it's easy to say, accept responsibility, blame no one, it is another thing to do. If you and I can do a better job, accepting responsibility and blaming no one. I love, by the way, that forthright, almost traumatic air to those last three words blame no one. What a powerful place from which to proceed. I made so many bad stock picks in my time. About half of the stock picks that I've made in Motley Fool Stock Advisor, Motley Fool Rule Breakers, didn't beat the market. The good news is the other half did, and some by, quite a lot. They do so well that as I write memorably, I hope, in my final stock market book, Rule Breaker Investing out this month, by the way, thank you, in particular, to each of you who've left me an online review on Amazon or Audible. If you haven't already, I would really appreciate that. This quote is one of Buffett’s most famous, and it offers the essence of picking your opportunity. You needn’t invest until you find an opportunity that you find attractive, one that meets your standards of potential reward for the risk you’re taking. Market breadth indicators show advancing stocks outnumber decliners, hinting at bullish sentiment. Following "rule 1 investing", investors focus on fundamentally superior businesses trading below intrinsic value, ensuring high-margin safety.