Your Name or Your Self
The Text
名与身孰亲？身与货孰多？得与亡孰病？甚爱必大费；多藏必厚亡。故知足不辱，知止不殆，可以长久。
Your name or your self — which is dearer? Your self or your goods — which is worth more? Gain or loss — which is the worse disease? Great love costs greatly; storing much loses heavily. One who knows sufficiency is never disgraced; one who knows where to stop is never endangered — and can endure.
Reading it
Three questions no one answers honestly in public. The chapter’s economics are cold: attachment raises the price of everything, inventory raises the size of every loss. Sufficiency and stopping-point are the only two policies that survive.
三个没人肯在公开场合诚实作答的问题。本章的经济学很冷：执着抬高一切的价格，库存放大每一次损失。知足与知止，是仅有的两种能活下来的政策。
Answer the first question in writing, honestly. Then look at this week’s calendar and check whether you live by the answer.
把第一个问题的答案诚实地写下来。再看本周的日程，核对是否照答案生活。