In the final session of the final day of the ARC Conference, Jordan Peterson gave the most inspiring talk we have ever heard. We encourage you, to please make time to watch this talk from beginning to end. Turn your phone off, go full screen, and let the words speak to your heart.

It has been a week of big ideas, strategic relations, and deep conversations. However, Jordan reminded us that “we have so many people in the world that are lost in ways that are nearly unimaginable” and urged all those in the room to lay aside all of our “hedonic whims”, to take up, cling to, and insist upon the divine responsibility given to us to work for the betterment of our societies. “There is no desert we can’t make bloom”.

Read more about Jordan’s ideas in his research paper, Identity: Individual and the State versus the Subsidiary Hierarchy of Heaven

Dr Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 until 1998, he served as Assistant and then Associate Professor of psychology at Harvard. Dr Peterson has written the global bestsellers Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life and 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.