Peter Stark could have simply defined hypothermia as the condition in which the body is at abnormally low body temperatures, one that needs treatment at body temperatures of 35℃ and becomes life threatening below 32.2℃. Certainly that is what most trainers would do. Instead he embeds the cold hard facts of freezing to death in a story that begins:
When your Jeep spins lazily off the mountain road and slams backward into a snowbank, you don’t worry immediately about the cold. Your first thought is that you’ve just dented your bumper. Your second is that you’ve failed to bring a shovel. Your third is that you’ll be late for dinner. Friends are expecting you at their cabin around eight for a moonlight ski, a late dinner, a sauna. Nothing can keep you from that.
It is an engrossing read. Narrative experiences can be so powerful. Some will transport you to another place and time in a way that is so compelling it seems real. A narrative like this could provide the structure for an entire training program. The story offers an organizing structure for new experiences and knowledge. It could shift the focus from a rote memorization of facts in a textbook to a diagnosis of a real-world condition.
The cold hard facts of freezing to death
Peter Stark could have simply defined hypothermia as the condition in which the body is at abnormally low body temperatures, one that needs treatment at body temperatures of 35℃ and becomes life threatening below 32.2℃. Certainly that is what most trainers would do. Instead he embeds the cold hard facts of freezing to death in a story that begins:
It is an engrossing read. Narrative experiences can be so powerful. Some will transport you to another place and time in a way that is so compelling it seems real. A narrative like this could provide the structure for an entire training program. The story offers an organizing structure for new experiences and knowledge. It could shift the focus from a rote memorization of facts in a textbook to a diagnosis of a real-world condition.