A calm person can see openings urgency makes invisible.

Urgency narrows vision. Under pressure your attention collapses onto the threat and the obvious moves, which is useful when something is actually chasing you and expensive the rest of the time. Calm is not merely more pleasant; it is a wider aperture, and it sees options that panic filters out entirely.

Before deciding anything important, do whatever reliably settles you: a walk, a night, a conversation with someone unhurried. Then look at the situation again and ask what you can see now that you could not before. Very often there is a third option that was invisible while you were rushing.