This week on “Sunday Morning” (July 20)

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COVER STORY: The science of redesigning your character
Author Olga Khazan was sad with the individual she was – anxious, obsessive about work, unable to have enjoyable, and always fearful about issues. And when remedy, drugs and self-care didn’t work for her, Khazan determined a extra radical method was wanted: she vowed to revamp her character. Khazan talks with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Susan Spencer concerning the stunning steps she took to dwell outdoors her consolation zone – a journey she documented in her new e book, “Me, However Higher: The Science and Promise of Persona Change.” Spencer additionally talks with College of Kentucky professor Shannon Sauer-Zavala about the way it’s potential to alter seemingly intractable character traits.

READ AN EXCERPT: “Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change”
Atlantic workers author Olga Khazan, a lifelong introvert, got down to change features of her character she did not like by forcing herself outdoors of her consolation zone. How about making an attempt improv comedy?

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ALMANAC: July 20
“Sunday Morning” seems to be again at historic occasions on this date.

          
WORLD: Life inside Naples’ volcanic “crimson zone”
There was rising volcanic exercise round Naples, Italy (with round two thousand earthquakes in February alone). Simply 30 miles west of Mount Vesuvius lies Campi Flegrei, a volcanic caldera that stretches for 125 miles beneath city areas, the place half 1,000,000 folks now dwell. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists monitoring this exercise.

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U.S.: A Civil Battle landmark in downtown D.C.
One little-known landmark in Washington, D.C., is an not noticeable constructing that was the positioning of a revolutionary effort on the finish of the Civil Battle – one which modified the navy ever since – the place Clara Barton labored to find 1000’s of troopers lacking or useless. Correspondent Falie Salie visits the Clara Barton Lacking Troopers Workplace Museum.

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BOOKS: Restaurateur Keith McNally on why he regrets “virtually all the things”
British-born restaurateur Keith McNally opened such well-liked New York Metropolis establishments because the Odeon, Balthazar and Pastis. However a 2016 stroke, which precipitated immobility and affected his speech, led to a suicide try two years later. It additionally led him to take to social media, and pen an irreverent memoir, “I Remorse Nearly Every thing.” He talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about overcoming public embarrassment about his situation, and the significance of getting a hamburger on the menu.

READ AN EXCERPT: “I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir” by Keith McNally

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers a number of the notable figures who left us this week.

       
TV: Bridget Everett on how she ended up as “Anyone Someplace”
Actress and cabaret star Bridget Everett put her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, on the map with “Anyone Someplace.” Everett was a author, producer and lead actor within the Peabody Award-winning HBO collection a few Midwestern lady returning house and dealing by way of grief. Correspondent Luke Burbank visited Everett in Manhattan, to speak about her surreal journey, and a few present whose characters might be hopeless and hopeful in the identical second.

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HARTMAN: The Carousel of Happiness
Whereas underneath fireplace throughout the peak of the Vietnam Battle, Marine Corporal Scott Harrison acquired by way of these darkish days thanks in no small half to a imaginative and prescient he had, of a carousel in a mountain meadow. Years later, he purchased a broken-down carousel, and made his imaginative and prescient a actuality. At present, in Nederland, Colorado, his non-profit Carousel of Happiness is on a mission to unfold pleasure. Correspondent Steve Hartman reviews. 

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TV: What shocked “Matlock” star Kathy Bates?
Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates, who sat down with Turner Traditional Films host Ben Mankiewicz to speak about a few of her most memorable stage and display roles, from “Distress” to “Matlock,” discovered a startling reality about her relationship along with her mom the evening she received the Oscar. (Initially broadcast Oct. 6, 2024.)

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THESE UNITED STATES: Yellowstone Nationwide Park
Correspondent Conor Knighton displays on the American treasure whose preservation as our first nationwide park impressed comparable conservation efforts across the globe.

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MUSIC: Conductor Herbert Blomstedt, a person who has cheated time
Herbert Blomstedt continues to be conducting main symphony orchestras world wide on the age of 98. And as correspondent Martha Teichner reviews, he plans to proceed doing so previous 100 as a result of, he says, “I’ve presents I’ve to dwell as much as.”

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COMMENTARY: Former Obama speechwriter David Litt on discovering impartial floor
“Widespread floor” could also be more and more tough to search out in a time when all the things appears political. As a substitute, David Litt, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, suggests discovering “impartial floor” with others – a spot to spend time collectively centered on one thing apart from our variations. Browsing, he discovered, is an efficient possibility.

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CALENDAR: Week of July 21

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THE BOOK REPORT: Ron Charles on new summer reads (July 20) | Watch Video
The Washington Submit e book reviewer provides highlights from the season’s fiction and non-fiction releases.

E-book excerpt: “The Beast in the Clouds” by Nathalia Holt
Within the newest e book by the bestselling writer of “Rise of the Rocket Ladies,” two sons of Theodore Roosevelt set out for China on a quest to discover a legendary creature: the large panda.

E-book excerpt: “Bug Hollow” by Michelle Huneven
A summer season lark turns tragic, and a shattered household should stick with it, within the newest novel by the writer of “Spherical Rock” and “Blame.”

E-book excerpt: “The Satisfaction Café” by Kathy Wang
In her search to beat loneliness and construct connections, a lady from Taiwan creates a brand new life for herself in California, in a gently witty new novel from the writer of “Household Belief.”

E-book excerpt: “The Slip” by Lucas Schaefer
This debut comedian novel, set in and round a boxing gymnasium in Austin, Texas, pounces on problems with race, intercourse and gender id in America in the present day.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (YouTube Video)
Alan Bergman, a part of the songwriting crew of Alan and Marilyn Bergman (who created Oscar-winning lyrics for “The Thomas Crown Affair,” “The Means We Had been,” and “Yentl”), died Thursday, July 17, 2025, at age 99. On this “Sunday Morning” profile that initially aired March 7, 2010, the Bergmans talked with correspondent Nancy Giles about writing for Barbra Streisand; and what a superb collaboration and a superb marriage have in widespread.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Martin Cruz Smith on writing mysteries (Video)
Martin Cruz Smith, writer of such bestsellers as “Gorky Park” and “Polar Star,” died on July 11, 2025, at age 82. On this “Sunday Morning” profile that aired Oct. 20, 2002, Smith talked with correspondent Anthony Mason about how he continued writing mysteries that includes Moscow detective Arkady Renko, regardless of being blacklisted by the Soviet Union. He additionally mentioned the “boring” features of writing, and the analysis he performed in Japan for his novel “December 6,” set in Tokyo on the eve of the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.

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MARATHON: Fun ‘n’ Games (YouTube Video)
Get pleasure from these traditional “Sunday Morning” options about gaming, from board and tile video games, to weird new video games that may not catch on.

MARATHON: Pieces of history (YouTube Video)
On this compilation, “CBS Sunday Morning” delves into the pages of historical past, from the autumn of Saigon to the reconstruction of the Notre Dame Cathedral.

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