What Chapter 16 means is that only by knowing your roots can you connect with the people you lead. knowing where you came from allows you to be humble and a benevolent ruler. Those who do not know their place and act as though they are higher than everyone will not be good leaders. "returning to ones root is called stillness. This is known as returning to one's destiny; And returning to one's destiny is known as constancy. To know constancy is called "enlightenment." Those who do not know constancy wantonly produce misfortune." (Laozi, 166) What this excerpt means is that those who know…