A master listener
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2021
- In St. Petersburg, Fla., when Al Nixon started coming to a park bench seven years ago, he needed a quiet place to clear his head. Today, he's providing impromptu therapy sessions, as a trusted confidant and counselor to whoever passes by, simply by demonstrating his skill at listening. Steve Hartman reports.
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I was told in my 20s, "Always speak, acknowledge people's presence."
I live this way still.
That is a powerful piece of advice.
Beautiful story and beautiful man
Kindness really does make a difference ...
My heroes are people like Al. Thank you, Steve, for finding the people who inspire us.
More stories like these, please.
I can't always count on CBS Sunday Morning for heart warming stories
Please more news stories like this. We all need the positivity right now 🙏
Such A Simple thing to do..
LISTEN..Just LISTEN..
To One Another..
Love Matters..
Thank you for posting pieces like this. I am worn out with the current events of the world. Something positive is so welcome
If we had more ALs in this world life would be so much better...❤️❤️🙏🏽
Love Steve Hartman
When this faded to the sun art at the end I said to myself out loud "where does Steve get all these great stories from?!". He's such a master storyteller. 🧡
Agreed. He always finds the stuff that pulls at your heart strings. Steve has a gift.
Awesome men. Amen
Yes
We need more Listener's
Thank you for listening to him and reporting this
Love to Al..and Steve
After watching your segment regarding Al, It gave me hope for mankind.
A big concept in this is simply "being there". People will generally work through their own problems. They like to see someone who is a comforting, regular presence in their lives.
I've watched him since he began, and I've never been underwhelmed once. I just don't understand his magic formula for finding his humans to tell their stories. That's a precious story in itself. Thank you Steve.
I'm going to try to be Al. He's my role model
"To be interesting, be interested." ~ Dale Carnegie
This man is an angel on earth!!! He is scattering kindness- how lovely.
Al, you’re a good man. 🥰 Whenever I leave my apartment I always smile and wave to anyone who walks by. Some folks look at me like I’m crazy…and others smile and wave back. Just one small kind gesture can change a person’s day for the better.
I'm not crying your crying:)
Tears are in my eyes. What a truly wonderful human being and listener. Role model for all of us!! Thank you, Steve!!!
You make the world better for being in it
To sit and listen has been a dream of mine for sometime. This is wonderful!
Maybe we should start an inspired revolution! City-wide. I will
Don't know you but I love you, Al !!! Humanity is not out of fashion.
sometimes, listening is all we need; it’s a powerful and cleansing feeling to be able to just talk to someone without judgment or advise
Most people do not listen to understand any longer......They listen just long enough to respond with their opinion. Iphones have taught us that people now know everything but understand very little.
Perfectly said!
there is so much information easily accessible today, but such little knowledge…
AMEN
Steve Hartman is definitely a Master Listener. Thanks for another beautiful story.
I love Steve and so glad he came to our great city. Wish i had known, I would love to meet him.😁
I have met and talked with Al Nixon. He is a sweet caring man and yes, a great listener. 🌻
Sunday morning. The absolute. Best. Listening is an art for sure. Thank you Al.
NOT talking and Listening are different things. Al gets this.👍🏽
Have a nice day Al, and all my fellow humans out there ❤ from me, in Aotearoa New Zealand 💗
I adore this interviewer. He has the ability to bring me to tears. Every time.
so amazing
Love me some Al. And ALWAYS, love me some Steve Hartman.
There’s a bike path I often walk on, and to use for therapy, I often listen to either Enya, Ken Elkinson, Enigma, or even the score to Coppola’s Koyaanisqatsi.
The way Al sits on the bench is not only casual, but is inviting and open. #bodylanguage
This sounds like my grandma. She'll be out of the house for two minutes and when she comes back she knows the entire life story and criminal record of the guy walking his dog.
❤❤❤
"You matter to me." Love wins!!♥️♥️
Beauty in a soul, right there.
OMG! That sounds like me! I'm not bragging but as an ESL instructor, most of my loyal students are the ones who tell me their personal and career problems. I have been their sounding board mostly because they know all too well that I will never reveal what they said to me. I have helped them see what they should think about doing through their emotional fog - all in English of course - and they have always come back to thank me. The trick is to listen, not judge and get them to see what they really want to do (without telling them to do it) and what is best for them. We can all do that, just shut your mouth and listen!
So sweet.
Heyyyy! *So glad to see this process. There are cities trying this process of having folks talk to each other and listening to one another. I'd enjoy his advice since losing my father.*
This is awesome
I live by that and I believe in that, listening to other people's concerns, just listening and not be judgmental or anything...
the benefits are that hearing people out releases all the pent-up tensions and stress the speakers has in them...
you don't have to come up with the answers to their problems because most of the time, by speaking your mind, you yourself come up with the answers to your problems... and this has happened most of the time in my encounters with strangers while I was doing my Uber back then before the pandemic... and this also give some satisfaction & relief to the listener...
I know of what I speak because I have been at both sides of the fence, both as speaker & listener
5000 gods love this man! Truth!
I need an Al on the west coast 😊
Seriously, what kind of sad, soulless person taps the thumbs down on this post?!? It HAS to be bots. God bless you Al.
as my father once stated "Hard to Listen, When YOUR LIPS are MOVING" !
Amen. ♥️
He reminded me of my woodshop teacher Mr. Russell.
Everyone needs an Al 😭
Many years ago, the good sisters taught us we have two ears and only one mouth, therefore we need to listen twice as much as we talk.
awsome yes news should sahre more such stories amidst the.... thanks
Hello to all, apparently Al has touched a lot of people. I just saw this same story on another network morning show. Very moving story, something that got my attention is Al's smile. It is a great smile, but you don't see his teeth. It could be that Al needs dentures. Wouldn't it be nice if the Sunday Morning show leveraged its resources to facilitate providing Mr. Al Nixon the dental work he may need. That would really excel this story. I am willing to help, and I am hopeful other people will help as well.
Sometimes people just want to be heard......
More news like this pls ffs! Awesome.
I think I'll do this too I love to Listen.. To People 💕
I'm not crying, you're crying 😥
I'd subscribe to an all-Steve Hartman RUclips channel.
Now if everyone would just lower the f'n rent a little bit, we could all set around smile & nod all day
WOW
WOOOOF
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏☮️🐕🐾
All I want in life is to be an Al
Good Morning :)
Checkings Reaches At My Eyes 8/
Sweer~
But who is listening to Al!?
Faith
Perfect...
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I don't think the younger generation understands what "listening" means.
What a joke lol!!!!!!
He's technically dangerous.