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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 apprehensive 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 character. Khazan talks with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Susan Spencer in regards to the stunning steps she took to dwell exterior 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 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 points of her character she did not like by forcing herself exterior of her consolation zone. How about making an attempt improv comedy?
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ALMANAC: July 20
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WORLD: Life inside Naples’ volcanic “purple 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 folks now dwell. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists monitoring this exercise.
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U.S.: A Civil Conflict landmark in downtown D.C.
One little-known landmark in Washington, D.C., is an not easily seen constructing that was the location 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 “nearly all the pieces”
British-born restaurateur Keith McNally opened such well-liked New York Metropolis establishments because the Odeon, Balthazar and Pastis. However a 2016 stroke, which brought on 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 All the pieces.” 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 “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 girl returning residence and dealing via grief. Correspondent Luke Burbank visited Everett in Manhattan, to speak about her surreal journey, and a few present whose characters could be hopeless and hopeful in the identical second.
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HARTMAN: The Carousel of Happiness
Whereas below hearth through the top of the Vietnam Conflict, Marine Corporal Scott Harrison received via 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. Right now, in Nederland, Colorado, his non-profit Carousel of Happiness is on a mission to unfold pleasure. Correspondent Steve Hartman stories.
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TV: What shocked “Matlock” star Kathy Bates?
Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates, who sat down with Turner Basic Films host Ben Mankiewicz to speak about a few of her most memorable stage and display screen roles, from “Distress” to “Matlock,” discovered a startling truth about her relationship along with her mom the night time she gained 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 related 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 world wide 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 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 troublesome to seek out in a time when all the pieces 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 effective choice.
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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 Approach 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 very good collaboration and a very good marriage have in frequent.
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” 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)
Get pleasure from these basic “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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