This speech not only highlights the importance of individual action and responsibility but also offers a roadmap for leading a meaningful life. It's a call to embrace the complexity of existence, to acknowledge our potential for both good and evil, and to strive relentlessly towards a vision that elevates not just ourselves, but the world around us.

21 year old American college student here, I had originally purchased tickets to attend the ARC conference, but ultimately plans fell through because of timing with exams. I am beyond grateful that these conversations were posted online, for free. Even though I know I missed out, I look forward to future conferences and attending those. As an attempt to spur on meaningful exchange in my university, I have started a book club that will cover classical literature, as I believe that those works are crucial to understanding what has gone wrong in modern society. That is my attempt to speak and share the truth as it is revealed to me through established wisdom. I hope this compels another young person to strive for more.

I'm 70, and always great to listen to this man. Lord knows mankind needs him, especially now.

I looked for a person such as this when I was a young man. I looked out on a world that offered so much potential, an overwhelming universe of choices and I felt small and not up to this task. I could not find this kind of guidance. My hope for this world is in the hands of a new generation. I won't see the results but my hopes and faith are in you all. Thank you, in advance❤

I'm a 61yo male who sits in the obscure Jones Generation (Between Boomers and Gen X). As a empathic creative, I resided on the left side of the spectrum (Bitterness/Resentment) until I discovered JBP during the pandemic lockdowns. This message maybe directed to Gen Z, but it's applicable to all of us and this message is even more important than ever! My deepest gratitude to Dr Peterson for literally saving my life

I'll be 50 in March 2024 and I need to hear this. This isn't just for young people, although I will agree that young people are the people who need to hear it the most. I'm learning to bargain with myself and ask myself what I'm willing to give in order to receive what I want. I'm getting there baby.

Jordan is the only teacher I’ve ever encountered who truly seems more concerned about the truth than his own ego. The very best male influences in my life growing up were semi-educated, insufferable hypocrites. I could only imagine what we could accomplish as a species if we raised our kids like we didn’t hate them

Im 28, i think theres still time to turn things around for myself.

Part of the problem in Canada is that hope is lost when the government is so corrupt without consequence. A terrible example for our young people.

Well I cried like a baby after that one! The youth today need a father figure to build up their foundation and keep them anchored in life. Jesus can be that foundation and men like Peterson can be the path to building it. Thank you for this.

great start to ARC..... Thankyou Jordan Peterson and all the others involved in bringing this alliance to the world. This (ARC) is what we desperately need. Genuine facts and leadership. Now it is up to us, the public, to do our part. Spread the word, help grow the "Alliance for Responsible Citizenship", and do YOUR part to help bring about a better more positive world for all of humanity. Put an end to the distopian vision offered by the elites of Davos and the WEF gang. Bring individual Freedom and responsibility back to the forefront of a free and prosperous society. Thankyou.

I have so much respect for JP. I listen to his Maps Of Meanings lectures every morning on my way to work. Life changing stuff!! Im 33, but his material has already pushed me to go back to school. He changed my perspective on children and raising them, and he has completely changed my perspective of religion. If you WANT to be better, JP wants to HELP you be better.

I believe I started out at 23 with a solid foundation and continue my education by adapting the attitude of becomming the best person I can possibly become at anything and everything I try to do without making myself the center of the universe. Consider others first even when a car pulls out in front of you on the freeway. A person whom I admire once told me, "It's the little things that can take you under" master both the small and the large and you'll have a smile on your face when you wake up most mornings.

If only the educators were allowed to encourage positive thinking as well as Jordan does..

Thank you Dr. Peterson…Onward and upward! ❤️✝️

Welcome, ARC!

I read JP’s books several years ago. I’m 27 now and taking his advice, combined with my own introspection and thinking, has fundamentally altered the way I see the world and my life. I can’t say enough good things. I recently started sharing some of the things that I’ve learned on my channel, my hope being that I can share what I have learned to help others avoid mistakes I’ve made. If you have ever thought of sharing your stories, I encourage you to do it too! We can all learn from each other.

A truly important and serious speech. This is the hopeful narrative we have been craving.

Thank you I’m so grateful for ARC. We are instruments singing in the winds of consciousness. We cannot control the winds but we can tune our strings. Experience is limited by the formation of your structure. I look in the mirror and there’s lots of work to be done

The message young people need to hear

Certainly one of the, if not the, most powerful speeches I've ever heard.

Eloquent... thought provoking... Thank you for your journey and courage in standing up, standing out... and leading.

This is what a true leader looks like. He has the compassion to truly care for other people and does not take the influence he’s gathered and wield it negatively over others for his own gain. We have gone too long with people who do not lead by example, and I’m so thankful we finally have it with Dr Jordan Peterson.

Strong teaching

Jordan is absolutely spot on. My words: We live in a system of chaos, however , if we are positive like he asks us to be then the sum of our parts will make society a better place.

Great message for the youth 👏👏👏

You can thrive and aspire to a certain goal but life is much more complicated and often leads you to unexplored and dark roads where normally you would never go.. you cannot have your life under full control even though you try.. accepting this fact can help a lot

👏👏 it’s so good for young people to be encouraged. I feel so lucky to hear your message now - I so wish I had had your words to heed when I was younger, but I rejoice in the fact that for the young people today a more positive and truthful way of living is being shown to them.

Ohhh my heart overflows with this song 🎵 ..Make Way,Rise Up. Amber Lilly Listen to the Truth..thanku Jordan ❤

Beautiful to hear the crowd giggling as JP gives us hope

If you are still in your teens or easly twenties, listen to every single word Dr Peterson is saying. Listen and learn and understand that he speaks the truth. This is coming from someone who is now over 50 and did make those bad choices and did go down that path of desolation and destruction. If it was not for this man and his videos appearing in my KZfaq feed I might have commited suicide 3 years ago. Now I try my hardest every day to live with my choices and spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the past and ruminating. The past can be a place of refuge or a place of despair. Make good memories with the right people. STAY AWAY FROM THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER SEE YOU FAIL. FIND AND KEEP GOOD FRIENDS WHO WANT THE BEST FOR YOU. And the future is in fact bright.

I love how he mentions the end in goal is to get closer to heaven because God should always be our pursuit of purpose. On earth as it is in heaven!

Jordan Peterson; is the only role model I've ever known. As a young person suffering from suicide and depression, I often times lose track of what to live for in life. But, Jordan Peterson, some how finds a way of making me regan that purpose.

I love this man ❤️

Amazing uplifting speech from JP what an inspiring guy Dr peterson is. I listen to Jordan every single day without fail and he makes my life better. I'm wiser because of him. I'm stronger. And I'm doing better. Thanks JP

Beautiful speech!

I'm subscribed to this channel and support it's overall mission so I feel obliged to say that this speech deserved better camera work as well as sound even though variations of it (the speech) have been made throughout these past years by Mr. Peterson. It's always a pleasure to listen to these words of encouragement and hope. Best of luck to ARC and Mr. Peterson going forward.

This man is the leader the world needs. This man restores hope in a world that has none. What a blessing it is to be alive and to witness his miracles.

Dr Peterson says there is a cost to being alive. There are also wages for our sin. What life costs and what we pay are exactly the same in the end. He also quotes a very wise Person who spoke of “knocking on a door, “opening the door” to invite Him in and “seeking in order to find” this Person. When you seek this truth it shows your ultimate purpose and sets you free.

“If it is not worth dying for than it is not worth living for” -Elizabeth Elliot

Thank you and Greetings 👋

We love you Jordan!!! Thank you for all the live and care you bless us with!!! May god Give you the strength to deliver your messages for as long As possible

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my KZfaq channel 9 months ago about self development. Now I have 1,452 subs and > 1,000 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

Thank you for holding it up, Mr. Peterson.

I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with my clients and this is what we do in the first session. It’s called the choice points. What challenging situations, thoughts and feelings. What do you do when you get hooked by those thoughts and feelings. Do they take you closer to the life you want to have or away? If you didn’t get hooked by those thoughts and feelings what would you start doing, do more of. Stop doing, so less of? How would you treat yourself and others. Developing a vision, knowing the values that underline that vision and then create a plan with tangible steps to get there.

Oh, JORDAN! I almost "perished myself" it got so bad. You have helped me so much, and you are a Godsend to me and so many people. I'm eternally grateful. I want to say to you, "BELIEVE!" But first off, I don't know if I could make a more compelling argument for why you should than you have already heard, and secondly, I'm not sure that you don't already "believe." I hope you do, and suspect you do, even if you are not sure. We all fall short of the Kingdom of Heaven in one way or another. And besides, it's none of my business anyway, ay?

You know what DOES fix it? "All of you young people are of the inheritance of Alexander, Augustus, Theoderik; all of you of European decent have ALOT to live up to, and glory, to be celebrated through the ages! What have YOU done to make your ancestors proud?" *Mic drop

Thank you Dr . Peterson, thanks to all of you… that’s passion right there ! Gotta have it , gotta to live it …

These powerful messages by Dr. Peterson are invaluable.

I think this guy has a lot of potential, hopefully he makes it one day

I would add that live is not only an adventure (which could apply that things are just happening to us) But life is also a training And God is the greatest Teacher of love in all of it ❤️

Wise man of this era ❤

Thank you to Dr Peterson and ARC for taking life seriously while helping initiate communication!!! Also Jordan saved my soul to put it mildly.

God bless this man!

Thank you again Mr. Petetson for all you do...For the hope you do inspire

This is usually the part in churches where they send around the collection plate. Thank you for bringing a light to a world we all knew we all needed

Ty ❤

0:15: 🗣 The speaker discusses the importance of vision and aims to inspire young people to make a meaningful impact in the world. 3:15: 🌟 Each individual has the power to make a lasting impact on the world, and hiding one's potential diminishes the world. 9:03: 💡 To manifest your vision, you must be honest with yourself, admit what you want and need, and acknowledge the gap between where you are now and your desired end point. 6:09: 💡 Having a noble goal can fill you with hope and unite you internally, reducing anxiety. 12:01: 💡 The speaker discusses the importance of accepting the inevitability of negative events and making a positive impact in the world. Recapped using Tammy AI

Wonderful. I loved that , thanks

6:00 keeping this quote

Awesome MENTOR ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"That's your ethical responsability as someone made in the image of God"

Nice to see the ARC subscribers growing rapidly now. 100k nice!

Wow! ❤

I was weak. This [and other] JP speech has hit me at a very crucial time in my life. I am stronger for it. Thank you

[part 2 of 2] So one of the things we ask people to do with this Future Authoring Program is to sit down with yourself, let's say like you would sit down with someone that you were taking care of and to ask yourself all right, well what's my price for not being bitter? What would I have to have in my life? What is it that I need in my life so that if that was delivered to me, I would be how about thrilled? How about thrilled to do what I'm doing? And that's a good criteria to apply if you're negotiating for a new position at work. It's like why not negotiate a contract you're thrilled with? Then you get to go to work and be thrilled. So then well, would you negotiate a covenant with yourself that would enable you to be thrilled? Well, it's a game you can play, you know if you could have the relationship you want and you have to imagine like you're a child right to enter that realm of dreaming that you did when you were daydreaming as a child. It's the form of thinking which we suppress very early in childhood to our great loss. You can ask yourself in a meditative way well, imagine that I had a genie and I could rub it and I'd have my wish and my wish was that I could have the best intimate relationship that I could imagine. It's like well, what would that look like? And you have to be honest with yourself to let that vision make itself manifest. You have to admit to yourself what you really want and need and then you also have to admit to yourself the gap between where you are now and that actual endpoint, but at least that in principle can be motivating. And you can do that with your intimate relationship. You can do that with your friends. You can do that with your career. You can do that with your educational vision. You can do that with the service that you might be to others. You can do that with your own care on the mental and physical health dimensions. You can figure out how to regulate your response to temptation. It's like if you could be the person that you would most admire in some realistic sense, what is it that you would do and what is it that you would stop doing? And then you have to ask yourself well, those are my conditions for satisfaction. That's what I want to pursue and then well, then you're motivated and I mean technically you're motivated because now you have some hope. You think well you know if I accomplish that well, then what? Well, I might be as pleased as a reasonable person could be with the conditions of my own existence. I would exist in some degree of harmony with the social world around me. I would be able to fulfill the commandment say to act as if existence itself is good. And you have that capacity. There's a gospel suggestion. It's a very strange line. Christ says to his followers: if you knock the door will open, if you ask you will receive, and if you seek you will find. And it's easy to deride that as a form of naive sentimentalism and it's not that at all. It's the most practical possible advice that anyone could ever deliver. It's like WHAT DO YOU WANT? You know, the world is full of endless difficult possibility. It's an unexplored storehouse of potential treasure. And there's no reason to assume at all that if you made the sacrifices that were necessary to bring yourself closer to the goal that you envisioned that it would be impossible for you to attain that. Now if you're wise, you'll know that you hold a vision, you hold a goal with a light hand because as you approach it you may find that you are unwise in your choice and that you have to modify your vision. But that's okay. You can accrue wisdom along the way. And it also means that you don't have to be afraid to stumble forward, you know. Like what the hell do you know about where you should be in four years? Well, maybe you can have a vision that would clarify you to some degree and then when you get to that next point you'll be able to see the location of the shining city on the hill with more clarity. So if you develop a vision wisely, you can start from wherever you are and you can stumble forward as stupidly as you need to and you'll improve along the way and God only knows what you might be capable of in the future. And that's a good question to ask yourself too you know. You pulled out all the stops and if you were all in, which you are anyways right, which you are anyways. The worst thing you can possibly imagine is definitely going to happen to you. And so there's no way around that. You can accept that as an a priori risk and you can say well given that limitation and that burden how is it that I would like to make myself manifest in the world? And what would I want to bring about? You listen to Magatta. She's an amazingly inspiring speaker and why? Well she has a vision for Africa. She said, you know if she could see in 25 years that she had taken concrete steps to make the world's youngest continent wealthier and more productive that she could die thinking that life had been worthwhile. Well, maybe that's a goal. So how do you die thinking that your life is worthwhile? If you live a life that's worthwhile you strike the bargain with yourself and you put it into practice and we invited you here because that's what we hope you will do. And I think as well I spend a lot of time thinking about tyranny and thinking about slavery and trying to understand how we fall prey to tyranny. We fall prey to tyrants when we do not act out the necessities of our own vision. They can offer us the blandishments that tyrants offer and we'll take them because we don't have anything of our own. So you can have something of your own but you have to decide what it is. You have to discover what it is. You have to enter into a conversation with yourself and see if you can determine clear-headedly what your preconditions are to thrive in the world. And what we would like you to do as attendees here and to take forward as you move back out into the world is the idea that you should think about what it is that is necessary for you to do as someone that you're taking care of, as someone with intrinsic value. And to think as well what does that mean about what you have to offer the world? And we're hoping that you're here you're going to listen to a variety of people who are inspiring, a number of people who've done remarkable things with their lives as models for the fact that you can do and not only can but have a moral obligation to do remarkable things with this miracle of existence that has been granted to you with all its difficulties. And so you walk away from this conference thinking that the burden is on you, but so is the adventure and the responsibility, all the opportunity and possibility that goes along with that. And we're hoping that you take that dead seriously as your contribution to tilting the world away from hell and more closely approximating heaven. And that is your ethical responsibility as someone made in the image of God.

Thank you.

That Was simple yet epic. Could easily spearhead the whole project.

I wish Deming could be alive to talk about Jordan Peterson.

Brilliant 💫

I was told as a young Man, "Two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the Day you discover WHY you were born"

Thank you JP!!

Hope the world of woke is listening to this..... about time they had a positive agenda. Thank you Jordan Peterson.

It seems the worlds current problems have found the wrong solutions. The cost is being felt and sadly will be felt by all generations alive today and sadly future generarions to come. Thanka God for Dr Peterson. He has helped many and me personally immeasureably.

If we decided that a single solitary speck has no significance then each speck in the collective whole would be reduced to nothing and so will the whole.

My worth is not defined by what I have accomplished in my life. My worth is what God has accomplished in my life.

'Hope is movement towards a valuable goal, you need a goal that unites you internally, you have less anxiety when you have a vision, there is a cost of suffering in your life, if that suffering is without purpose, then you will be bitter, what do I want to not be bitter, or to be thrilled, being thrilled is good, imagine the relationship that you want, admit what you don't have now, be a person that you would admire, technically now you are motivated, to fulfill and act that existence is good, if you ask you will receive is good advice, if you make the sacrifice then you will attain, but you may have to modify your vision... [Wow impressive. It's good to have good goals?]

That's inspiring

Putting my life's moto into words !" It is refreshing to hear.

Thank you ,Dr. Peterson.🎉

1 in a billion gentleman. Hare Krsna sir.🙏🏾

This man deserves a better microphone than a sm57... the message needs to be clear!

God bless You Dr. Peterson.

Couldn't make up my mind as to which suit to wear today, so I though 'Sod it, I'll wear 'em both'.

I wish he were my therapist. Although, I think the suits and the $20,000 watch I might find distracting 😆

Th shift, Dr Wayne Dyre said it Mr Jordan Peterson. Thank you for Talking, you have become such a powerful voice, man,

Shout this message from rooftops and from street corners. This is what we need to hear today

[part 1 of 2] So I think maybe what I'll talk to you about is vision. So first of all, I'm very happy to be here speaking to all of you. One of the things we wanted to do right from the beginning of this organization is to make sure that we identify a large group of young people, and that's you by the way. We picked all of you very carefully. We picked you because you had already demonstrated in one way or another that you were doing something to aim up, and that you were communicating that. Now, you know, I've been thinking about how to conceptualize the world and our place in it for a long time, and one of the misconceptualizations that lead people into a dismal nihilism is a linear conception of the relationship between people. So if you imagine yourself for a moment as one speck among seven billion specks, then you're going to immediately leap to the conclusion that nothing that you could do could possibly matter. Now there's a payoff to that, because if nothing you do matters, then you can get away with anything. And so when you're feeling nihilistic, you have to ask yourself the question whether or not you're actually hopeless, or whether you're just looking for an excuse for selfish nihilism and for selfish hedonism. I think the latter is very much worth considering. But I also think that's a very bad model of the way that the realm of human experience is constructed. You can think about it mathematically very rapidly in a much more instructive sense. So there is a notion, a metaphysical notion, that each of us stands at the center of the cosmos in some strange way, and that seems impossible because we are accustomed to assuming that everything that we understand has a single center. But there's lots of things about the way existence lays itself out that we don't understand, and it is possible for something sufficiently complex to have multiple centers. We're all conscious, and that's a mystery in and of itself, and each of those consciousnesses is a kind of center. So and then you think, well, what potentiality does that center have? And you can think very rapidly that certainly in the span of your life, if you're reasonably fortunate, you're going to have a thousand people that you have very close encounters with, that the manner in which you conduct your life is going to have a substantive effect on at least a thousand people. And each of those thousand people are in contact with a thousand people, and that's a million people, one person out from you, and it's a billion people, two people out from you. And so we're each at the center of a network like that, and that means two things. It means that the stupid, miserable, resentful, bitter things you do have a lot more cataclysmic effect on the way the world unfolds than you think. And that's worth thinking about. But it also means that the good that you do can have a much broader effect than you might think, especially if you buy the one speck among seven billion specks model. And the thing is, too, it's what you do as an individual doesn't just radiate out from you spatially. It also radiates out from you temporally. So if you have the adventure of having a child, for example, you have no idea what the overall consequence of that is going to be as the generations cascade out into the future. And so it is the case that you stand at the center of things, and one of the things we wanted to do when bringing all of you relatively young people together was to drive that point home. You know, you're not here, and I think you know that, but you're not here to listen to experts tell you how you should conduct your life. You're here to be encouraged to take yourselves as responsible entities of intrinsic worth seriously, and also to contemplate the possibility that you have something very real to offer the world -very real- and that the world itself will be much less than it could be if you fail to bring that forward. And I believe firmly, I truly believe this, that the world degenerates into hell when people hide their light under a bushel. If enough people do that, it's hell. And enough people stop doing that, well, then we move incrementally uphill towards the promised land on the hill, let's say. And I think that's as realistic a way of conceiving the world as can possibly be put forward. There's nothing about that that's pie in the sky or naive dreaming. Quite the contrary, in fact, because it puts quite a burden on you. You don't get to mess about. The stupid things you do matter, and they matter in a very negative way. And if you're ever wondering why the world is going to hell in a handbasket, the first place to look to determine that is in the mirror. And in that, you know, there's a nobility in that, too. I also think, you know, that you actually can't take yourself seriously until you take your capacity for stupidity and bitterness and resentment seriously and understand how much damage that can do in the world. Because when you can see in yourself, as a force for evil, you can start to understand that the corollary of that could well exist. At least you could not be as wretched as you are, and then after that, perhaps you could aim up. And then maybe I could talk a little bit about how you might aim up. I have a program online called the Future Authoring Program and it helps people develop a vision. And so if you're looking for a practical way of developing a vision, finishing that program is a very good idea and you can do it very badly and it'll still work. But I want to tell you what the idea behind the development of a vision is. They say that without a vision, the people perish, and there's technical reasons for believing that. The first thing is that if you don't have a well-developed and integrated vision, you can't have any hope. And the reason you can't have any hope is because hope signifies movement towards a valuable goal. And so if you don't have a valuable goal in mind, you have no hope. And that's not good because there will be times in your life where you'll perish without hope and so you need a noble goal that will fill you with hope. Now the other thing that a goal does is it unites you internally. And if you're a leader you can unite many people behind a goal. But a goal of your own unites you internally and what's the consequence of that internal union? The answer to that is apart from an abundance of hope is an absence of anxiety, because what anxiety does is signal a fractured vision. You're anxious when there's too many things that you don't understand that you could do or too many directions that beckon that you could wander down. It's the freedom of being in the desert or the freedom of being dropped in the ocean: too much unstructured potential. You put the proper constraint on potential with the vision. Okay, so now a vision is something you negotiate. Let's say if you're in a marriage you have to negotiate the vision of the marriage with your wife or with your husband. Now what bearing does that have on what you do with yourself? Well, here's a very practical way of thinking about it. There's a cost that you're gonna pay for being alive and the cost is, well, the cost is your death. That's one. The cost is the suffering that will definitely come to you as you make your way through life. Now if that suffering makes itself manifest in the absence of sufficient purpose, you will get bitter and resentful and you'll work to make things worse and that's not a desirable outcome if you're clear-headed in the least. And so then you might ask yourself well, what's the alternative to that? And that's actually the question you should ask.

Dr Petersons push back to the woke world has given many other’s the spine to step up and it is making a difference. Thank you Dr Peterson.

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Please.Translation, with subtitles, in spanish. Thanks.

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People want responsibility and to take on burden. Unfortunately, you can be a doctor or engineer in Canada and yet need 10 years of savings to put a down-payment on a condo. The system is broken.

Beautifully said

In general you are saying. As a humanist I don’t know if a higher intelligence exists or not, but I shall live my life in such a fashion that if or when humans are discovered, I will not be embarrassed by my lifestyle.

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If I knew I was going in the very short term I would think…I had a wonderful wife, raised four outstanding children, not because of what they achieved but because of the good people they are and their beautiful children…and that our Catholic faith contributed in great part to all of this.

Most people die eating their dreams. I witnessed it several times.

This man is so close to The Kingdom of God . He needs to become as a little child and give Jesus Christ the glory . Doing good deeds will definitely make for a better world but in the end you will come up short. We are number 2 Not number 1 . Jesus Christ is the cornerstone and those who belong to him are living stones that makeup the Kingdom of God . When he comes back he will hand over the Kingdom to his Father

Be like Cain, who, despite being slandered and maligned, "went out from the presence of the lord and went to live in the Land of Nod, east of Eden" (Gen 4:16) where he became not only a man, but a husband, father and leader of men, and went on to found a city he named after his first-borne. Patriarch of the tribes of Israel, Methuselah's grandfather, a proper JBP hero.