32 articles
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
English proverb advising that setbacks can be turned into something good; earliest traced instances are anonymous American items from 1907, later used by Elbert Hubbard and popularized via Dale Carnegie's 1948 book, with exact modern wording appearing on a 1971 bumper sticker.
Yerkes–Dodson law
The Yerkes–Dodson law, from Yerkes and Dodson's 1908 mouse-shock learning study, holds that performance peaks at moderate arousal, lower for hard tasks; modern research treats the inverted U as real but oversold.