This week on “Sunday Morning” (July 20)

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

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

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

          
WORLD: Life inside Naples’ volcanic “pink zone”
There was growing 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 one million individuals now stay. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists monitoring this exercise.

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U.S.: A Civil Warfare 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 Warfare – one which modified the navy ever since – the place Clara Barton labored to find 1000’s of troopers lacking or lifeless. Correspondent Falie Salie visits the Clara Barton Lacking Troopers Workplace Museum.

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BOOKS: Restaurateur Keith McNally on why he regrets “nearly every thing”
British-born restaurateur Keith McNally opened such fashionable New York Metropolis establishments because the Odeon, Balthazar and Pastis. However a 2016 stroke, which induced 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 little 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 few of the notable figures who left us this week.

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

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HARTMAN: Happiness carousel
     

TV: What shocked “Matlock” star Kathy Bates?
Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates, who sat down with Turner Traditional Motion pictures host Ben Mankiewicz to speak about a few of her most memorable stage and display screen roles, from “Distress” to “Matlock,” realized a startling truth 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 remains to be conducting main symphony orchestras around the globe on the age of 98. And as correspondent Martha Teichner stories, he plans to proceed doing so previous 100 as a result of, he says, “I’ve items I’ve to stay as much as.”

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

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (YouTube Video)
Alan Bergman, a part of the songwriting workforce of Alan and Marilyn Bergman (who created Oscar-winning lyrics for “The Thomas Crown Affair,” “The Manner 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 collaboration and 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” points of writing, and the analysis he carried out 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)
Take pleasure in 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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