He has so embraced their stripped-down nature that he reminisced about how unpleasant the feedback from Belichick was after the Patriots lost a preseason game.
Many singers have the tendency to place their hand around the microphone when performing which can cause unpleasant, high-pitched feedback.
Don't carry the microphone over to the amplifier when you do this, as placing the microphone too near the amplifier will cause unpleasant and potentially ear-damaging feedback; this is another good reason for using a stand.
What's more, it protected him from the unpleasant shock of reality that video feedback can engender.
You see, he was one of the only managers who allowed his staff to express open feedback, ask awkward questions and share unpleasant personal truths.
Statistically significantly more GPs who found it unpleasant to receive the evaluation results had attended the feedback meeting (83.6% vs. 16.4%, p = 0.013) and had evaluation results below average (74.6% vs. 25.4%, p < 0.001) compared with GPs who did not perceive the experience as unpleasant.
Providing a sense of progression is a form of feedback and is a key component of making unpleasant tasks more manageable.
71% of the GPs attended the feedback meeting and 14% of the evaluated GPs found it unpleasant to receive the feedback report containing the results.
Further fMRI studies showed insular cortical responses during the anticipation of physical pain (Ploghaus et al., 1999) and unpleasant visual stimuli (Simmons et al., 2004), and in response to punishing feedback that preceded a reversal switch (O'Doherty et al., 2003).
