Then in the 1930s, a doctor named Hans Selye, S-E-L-Y-E, first used this term to describe a human's reaction to a demand placed on it, pleasant or not.
Life isn't always about rules, and people who break rules are successful in their own right, because, you know, they're doing things that they said it couldn't be done.
Yes, they thought that travel from the east was impossible, because of the huge, empty stretch of ocean that lies between the islands and the nearest inhabited land.