The Art of Deciding
The Art of Deciding explores how people actually make life-defining choices, and why those decisions are rarely as rational as we assume. Hosted by Bruce Whitfield, the nine-episode series talks to guests such as Guantánamo survivor Mohamedou Ould Slahi, winemaker Gary Jordan, Gift of the Givers founder Imtiaz Sooliman and philanthropy CEO Anthony Farr. Each conversation looks at what a person's choices reveal about the rest of us. It is produced in partnership with News24 and brought to you by Momentum.
Episodes
Bruce Whitfield | Why Gary Jordan opted to bet on English wine
Three generations of Jordans made shoes. Gary Jordan became a geologist, fell in love with wine and, with his wife Kathy, built Jordan Wine Estate in Stellenbosch into one of South Africa’s best-known wine brands.Then he made a leap few saw coming: making wine in rural England. After driving 6,000 miles in search of the right soil, he found Mousehall, a medieval estate in East Sussex listed in the
Bruce Whitfield: Tyme Group’s Coenraad Jonker on building a billion-dollar bank
We like to think our biggest decisions are rational, but beliefs and biases shape how we approach a choice, and how we approach that choice shapes the outcome.Coenraad Jonker was the young CEO of Africa’s biggest corporate law firm when an MBA class changed his life. Inspired by economist Hernando de Soto’s work on financial inclusion, he left law to pursue an idea most banks dismissed: that peopl
Why would an innocent man confess? Mohamedou Ould Slahi on The Art of Deciding
We like to think our biggest decisions are rational, but beliefs and biases shape how we approach a choice, and how we approach it shapes the outcome. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was detained at Guantánamo Bay for nearly 15 years without ever being charged. He was tortured and eventually confessed to a crime he says he did not commit. His account of those years became the bestselling memoir Guantánamo Di
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