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There was a wealthy merchant who, to avoid losing his money, replaced all his wealth with gold and silver. He made a unique paper umbrella, and carefully concealed the gold and silver in the umbrella handle, then he dressed as an ordinary citizen, and got ready to head back to his hometown to retire with this umbrella. However, he accidentally dozed off on the train, and he realized the umbrella had disappeared when he woke up! After carefully observing, this experienced businessman noticed that the package he carried was still in good condition. So he knew that the person who took the umbrella was not a professional thief, but someone who happened to pass by and just took the umbrella by mistake, and that the man should be nearby.

The merchant then settled down there, and he purchased umbrella repair tools to make a living by repairing umbrellas. Two years went by, but he did not find his umbrella. However, as he fixed umbrellas, he learned that people would just buy new umbrellas when they were not worth repairing.

The merchant then changed his banner to "an old umbrella for a new one," without charge. The people who came to replace their umbrellas came in regularly. Not long after, a middle-aged man with a shabby oil paper umbrella came in in a hurry. The merchant took a look at it, and it was the umbrella that he had been searching for - and the umbrella handle was still intact. He quietly gave the man a new umbrella. After the man left, he went back to his residence to tidy up his belongings and disappeared without a trace.

There is wisdom in calmness. The curator of the museum deliberately made his case loud to everyone, while the merchants handled his loss silently. Their wise actions derived from calm. In the face of sudden incidents, both of them dealt with it calmly, eventually transforming the situation into something better.

In life, learning to be calm is a valuable asset. It will let you know that if there are storms and dark clouds in front of you, anxiety and distress will not only make things worse but sometimes it will make things disastrous. The calm will allow you to stabilize your position and restore your losses.

Calmness is a kind of wisdom, but also a sort of resilience. More than 80 years ago, a fire burned down Thomas Edisons laboratory. Edison stood on the ruins and said: "Now we can start again!" I believe that anyone who knows this would admire Edisons calmness.

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鎮靜是一種智慧

有一個巨商，為躲避動蕩，把所有的家財置換成金銀細軟，特製了一把油紙傘，將金銀小心地藏進傘柄之內，然後把自己打扮成普通百姓，帶上雨傘準備歸隱鄉野老家。不料途中出了意外，他不慎打了一個盹，醒來之後雨傘竟然不見了！巨商畢竟經商數年，他不露聲色地仔細觀察，發現隨身攜帶的包裹完好無損，斷定拿雨傘之人肯定不是專業盜賊，估計是過路人順手牽羊拿走了雨傘，此人應該就在附近。

巨商於是就在此地住了下來，購置了修傘工具，做起了修傘的營生。春去秋來，一晃兩年過去了，他也沒有等來自己的雨傘。但是巨商在修傘的過程中，瞭解到有些人的雨傘壞的不值得一修的時候，就會重新買新的雨傘。巨商於是又改行「舊傘換新傘」，並且換傘不加錢。一時間前來換傘的人絡繹不絕。不久，有一個中年人夾著一把破舊的油紙傘匆匆趕來，巨商接過一看，正是自己魂牽夢繞的那把雨傘，傘柄處完好無損，巨商不動聲色給了那人一把新傘。那人離去之後，巨商轉身進門，收拾家當，從此消失的無影無蹤。

鎮靜出智慧。博物館長的故意聲張和巨商的無言等待，都是一種鎮靜之後的智慧。在突如其來的事件面前，博物館長和巨商都能夠沉著應對，從而化險為夷。

對人生而言，學會鎮靜是一筆寶貴的財富。它會讓你懂得，一旦面前出現驚濤駭浪、烏雲籠罩，焦慮、苦惱非但於事無補，有時還會使事情變得更糟，而恰如其分的鎮靜能夠讓你穩住陣腳、挽回損失。
鎮靜是一種智慧，更是一種韌性。八十多年前，一把火燒光了愛迪生的實驗室，愛迪生站在廢墟上說：現在我們又可以重新開始了！我相信，任何知道這句話的人都會為愛迪生的鎮靜發出由衷的讚歎。