The True Meaning of Life. | Joel Testa | TEDxAkron
Entrepreneur and philanthropist, Joel Testa shares his thoughts on the meaning of life and why we are on this planet.
Recently named the 2018 National Real Estate Developer of the Year, Joel speaks to cities across the US about building vibrant places, but in this talk he explains why most human beings fall into a trap of chasing money instead of life’s true meaning. He touches on the need to find your true purpose and to reprioritize what little time we have on this planet. Joel A. Testa, President and Chief Operating Officer of Testa Companies.
The Testa Companies include 7 corporations that handle every facet of the real estate and construction industry. From design, development and construction to sales, management and building maintenance.
Testa Companies was founded in 1967 and has twice made the INC Magazines list of fastest growing privately held companies in the US. Along with many other accolades both locally and nationally, Testa is the only contractor to be named Builder of the Year 4 times by the Home Builders Association. Testa’s portfolio spans several states, includes over 700 properties and more than 2 million square feet of office, retail, medical and educational facilities. Testa has developed over 6,000 mixed use and residential units and at one time was producing as many as 1,500 homes per year. Joel has helped develop several notable projects including the first aids housing facility and first vertical parade of homes site in the country. His architecture and design firm has won local and national praise including the recent expansion of Crocker Park, a mixed use lifestyle development in Westlake, OH, tying an existing retail center into the new American Greeting’s world headquarters. In addition to architecture, Mota works with city’s to assist in urban planning and creates branding for it’s corporate clients.
Joel Testa was named one of Crain’s Business Magazines 30 under 30, a finalist in the Earnest and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and served on Governor Strickland’s advisory board.
In addition to his role at Testa Companies, Joel is also the cofounder and partner of Mota Design Group, the Formerly Homeless Foundation and BYTE dining group, where he has been instrumental in creating and launching several restaurant and bar concepts with Chef partner Dante Boccuzzi including the recently opened Dante’s Inferno. He serves on several boards at the local, state and national level. He is a Past President of the Home Builder’s Association serving Summit and Portage Counties, a board member for Habitat for Humanity, S& T Bank and Director for the National Association of Home Builders. Joel was named the marketing and advertising person of the year by the Home Builders Marketing and Merchandising Council and voted one of the top 10 leaders to follow in Northeast Ohio.
He is a national speaker and has been featured at several conferences throughout the country speaking on development and growth.
In 2016 his construction company merged with Welty Building Corporation to create Welty Testa Builders, one of Ohio’s largest full service design, construction and development partnerships. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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The meaning of life is for us to experience what we want to experience and help others achieve that experience
@arjunkp9337
3 жыл бұрын
Where did u get this meaning from??
@Stranger-dy5td
3 жыл бұрын
But at the end it doesn't matter.
@chikko4973
3 жыл бұрын
I just need a person that talks with me and really cares about me to escape the pain living with people that just want to get benifits from me.
@mikesamovarov4054
Жыл бұрын
What if someone wants to experience violence, torture and kill others? Should we really help them? 🤦🏻♀️
@sariahlace5944
Жыл бұрын
You don't know either
Well done I enjoyed this talk and I listen to a few hundred of them. As a father I can relate. May I also suggest that you add to your presentation how important it is to help others. There's been a lot of research done that shows that this is the number one way to be a happy individual. So now as a father because I want to raise happy children Above All Else, I am going out of my way to do nice things for other people with them.
@robertportillo7723
4 жыл бұрын
@Joe Bloe seriously? We can only consider what is apparent in our own reality.
@sadeel7223
3 жыл бұрын
Can you help me extract the meaning of life from this persons point of view from the video.??
"money cant fill the hole that a lack of purpose creates"
Thanks for making me happy
Me encantó. Muchas gracias
Inspiring! thanks for sharing.
very good tedtalk, one of the best but so underrated
From young age>play with friends..........etc.............no Responsiblities what so ever & now that we grow Up to be adults>we work make money,pay bills,etc ........& have 1hour of free time to do what we want ..i want to write a book.. but where do i begin?!!!! i hate my life.......
If you think that there is something larger to life, then you are assuming God. It seems to me that once you consider God as a possibility, then the obvious meaning and purpose of life is to seek out and know God. And that, in fact, is an important part of the Christian idea. And we seek and come to know God by trying to obey His command to love one another for where love is, there God is also.
@chrisboulter4816
4 жыл бұрын
blinders
@matthewtenney2898
4 жыл бұрын
@Joe Bloe Does the deeper truth give us a reason for living.
@matthewtenney2898
4 жыл бұрын
@Joe BloeOur human need for a life worth living comes from the unconscious mind and it doesn't appear that the conscious mind can overrule it. The truth is that there is a Creator/God. There, I've shared it.
@mikesamovarov4054
Жыл бұрын
Not just Christian, it's in EVERY religion that has G-d.
@matthewtenney2898
Жыл бұрын
@@mikesamovarov4054 I have thought so but I wasn't sure. Thanks.
'The Meaning Of Life' -anagram - 'The Fine Game Of Nil'.
Places I want to go/do/have before i die: universal studio Disney land Some meet and greets Have a awesome time with my friends
@mikesamovarov4054
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, worthy living for that 🤦🏻♀️
definition of meaning: "intended to communicate something that is not directly expressed" So it is intention, communication and an intelligible message. Nature doesn't send intelligent messages. And that implies and requires God. What Mr. Testa is talking about is a feeling, only a feeling. What gives us a feeling of having been sent a message? Our own imagination. Send yourself a message and then find it and pretend you didn't send it.
FATHER BIG MONEY
All these actors thinking they know why we are here, but they don't even know themselves
@kaedehara_kazuh4
4 жыл бұрын
precisely
When you will discover things that you have never imaginate at all you will think that we dont even need a sens of life .... but if i give you the real sens of life it will not please you so much for human being is about ask the good questions but for asgard is find the good equation ....
Subtitle INDONESIAN PLEASE☺️
I hear the Manti Pageant is famous... I wonder why. Guess ill never know. You should ask the guy in the long coat. If I spelt that wrong I'm sorry. Besides he's only there one or two time a day. Ask him what the true meaning of life is. If he say it to you, you say it's everything. He'll tell you the secrets of the world well as much as he knows anyways. Go and find him if you can that is...
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The meaning of life is to search the meaning of life and try to do the meaning of life
Om
My free book has the answer....
It is 42. Stop talking
Imagine everything will have an end except eternity. So believe or don't believe the greater good is pointless. So what could be the point of life? Maybe some book has the answer. Bible is a good place to start looking.
@varunkurup300
5 жыл бұрын
nope Bible is not the good book to start with
@varunkurup300
5 жыл бұрын
Why not bhagavat Gita or Quran?
@mahmoodaziz6162
3 жыл бұрын
Not the bible but the Qur'an
Guys there is a saying knowledge is power, but I say the right knowledge is powerful to your life, not just any knowledge is good for you most knowledge is wasted time
بدنا ترجمة ؟؟🙄
@mariamshhadee6128
3 жыл бұрын
جايه تحل النشاط؟؟ 😂😂😂😂
@ahn9761
3 жыл бұрын
@@mariamshhadee6128 ايوا صحيح
@ahn9761
3 жыл бұрын
@Lølo Xl لا والله
@mariamshhadee6128
3 жыл бұрын
@@ahn9761 هههههههه
I agree with his comments on having children. Everything else was basically drivel.
The meaning of life is 42, ez
This is about the meaning of man's life. Or at least it tries to, in a very narrow way. The rest of the universe does not exist in this talk.
@chrisboulter4816
4 жыл бұрын
clearly this talk was not meant to be about the eternal universe... just curious what point you were trying to make?
Joel is my dad
@LBPLIVE64
4 жыл бұрын
And mine I’m ur future alt
@Appl3cake2009
Жыл бұрын
ROBLOX HIT DIFF
Truth is the most important thing which is there is no god
@zoomman1645
4 жыл бұрын
ther is a God,follow Jesus my brother. Blessing
The meaning of life is to submit to the will of God.
@ytk1511
4 жыл бұрын
@9/8c not slavery to a fantasy but to submit ourself to God.
@ytk1511
4 жыл бұрын
@9/8c not a fantasy but The real one true God
@ytk1511
4 жыл бұрын
@9/8c بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ (Abdul Haleem) In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy! -Sura Al-Fatihah, Ayah 1
@ytk1511
4 жыл бұрын
@Joe Bloe ٱلۡحَمۡدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ () Praise belongs to God, Lord of the Worlds, -Sura Al-Fatihah, Ayah 2
@ahn9761
3 жыл бұрын
يا محمد برأيك من وجهة نظره بالفيديو ايش معنى الحياة ؟🙄
It still does not answer the question of WHY we are here👎😕
@mariamshhadee6128
3 жыл бұрын
Ya
حسبي الله بالجامعة مين يترجمو وينزلوو
@asmaa5354
3 жыл бұрын
+1 مش لاقيه الا هاد فيديو تحطوه 🤦🏻♀️😭
@Raghadasmr22
3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂اه والله فش ترجمة
@lolok701
3 жыл бұрын
عنجد شو اعمل بدنا حد يترجمووو
@Raghadasmr22
3 жыл бұрын
مش عارفة والله
@Raghadasmr22
3 жыл бұрын
دكتورة عايدة ؟
Weird Uncle Joel
But God doesn´t exist.
@anonymousbro2315
3 жыл бұрын
How can you PROOF that
We're all here, because we're not all there...
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