This week on “Sunday Morning” (July 20)

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COVER STORY: The science of redesigning your persona | Watch Video
Author Olga Khazan was sad with the individual she was – anxious, obsessive about work, unable to have enjoyable, and continuously fearful about issues. And when remedy, medicines and self-care did not 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 guide, “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 alter seemingly intractable persona traits.

READ AN EXCERPT: “Me, However Higher: The Science and Promise of Character Change”
Atlantic employees author Olga Khazan, a lifelong introvert, got down to change elements 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 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” seems again at historic occasions on this date.

WORLD: Life inside Naples’ volcanic “purple zone” (Video)
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 1,000,000 folks now stay. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists monitoring this exercise.

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U.S.: A Civil Conflict landmark in downtown D.C. (Video)
One little-known landmark in Washington, D.C., is an not easily seen constructing that was the positioning of a revolutionary effort on the finish of the Civil Conflict – 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 “virtually every little thing” | Watch Video
British-born restaurateur Keith McNally opened such in style 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 Virtually 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 Remorse Virtually Every little thing: A Memoir” by Keith McNally

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PASSAGE: Remembering Connie Francis (Video)
“Sunday Morning” host Jane Pauley seems again on the profession of singer Connie Francis, who turned a defining voice of the Fifties and ’60’s with such hits as “The place the Boys Are” and “Who’s Sorry Now,” and whose 1962 track “Fairly Little Child” just lately turned a viral hit on TikTok.

TV: Bridget Everett on how she ended up as “Someone Someplace” | Watch Video
Actress and cabaret star Bridget Everett put her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, on the map with “Someone 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 means 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 (Video)
Whereas underneath hearth through the top of the Vietnam Conflict, Marine Corporal Scott Harrison acquired by means 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. Immediately, in Nederland, Colorado, his non-profit Carousel of Happiness is on a mission to unfold pleasure. Correspondent Steve Hartman experiences. 

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

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THESE UNITED STATES: Yellowstone Nationwide Park (Video)
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 (Video)
Herbert Blomstedt continues to be conducting main symphony orchestras around the globe on the age of 98. And as correspondent Martha Teichner experiences, 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 | Watch Video
“Frequent floor” could also be more and more troublesome to search out in a time when every little 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 aside from our variations. Browsing, he discovered, is an efficient possibility.

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CALENDAR: Week of July 21

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NATURE: Mammoth Scorching Springs at Yellowstone 

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

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

E-book excerpt: “Bug Hole” by Michelle Huneven
A summer time lark turns tragic, and a shattered household should keep it up, within the newest novel by the creator 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 creator of “Household Belief.”

E-book excerpt: “The Slip” by Lucas Schaefer
This debut comedian novel, set in and round a boxing health club in Austin, Texas, pounces on problems with race, intercourse and gender id in America at this time.

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 Approach We Have 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 an excellent collaboration and an excellent marriage have in widespread.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Martin Cruz Smith on writing mysteries (Video)
Martin Cruz Smith, creator 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” elements 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: Enjoyable ‘n’ Video 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: Items of historical past (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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