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An introvert sad with the field she discovered herself in, author Olga Khazan consciously strived to revamp her character.
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COVER STORY: The science of redesigning your character | Watch Video
Author Olga Khazan was sad with the particular person she was – anxious, obsessive about work, unable to have enjoyable, and continuously frightened about issues. And when remedy, drugs and self-care did not work for her, Khazan determined a extra radical strategy 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 reside 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 doable to vary seemingly intractable character traits.
READ AN EXCERPT: “Me, However Higher: The Science and Promise of Persona 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 attempting improv comedy?
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ALMANAC: July 20 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” appears to be like again at historic occasions on this date.
Life inside Naples’ volcanic “crimson zone”
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WORLD: Life inside Naples’ volcanic “crimson zone” (Video)
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 individuals now reside. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists monitoring this exercise.
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A Civil Conflict landmark in downtown D.C.
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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 noticeable constructing that was the location of a revolutionary effort on the finish of the Civil Conflict – one which modified the army ever since – the place Clara Barton labored to find hundreds of troopers lacking or lifeless. Correspondent Falie Salie visits the Clara Barton Lacking Troopers Workplace Museum.
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Restaurateur Keith McNally discusses his new memoir, “I Remorse Virtually The whole lot.”
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BOOKS: Restaurateur Keith McNally on why he regrets “nearly 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 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 Virtually The whole lot.” 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 The whole lot: A Memoir” by Keith McNally
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PASSAGE: Remembering Connie Francis (Video)
“Sunday Morning” host Jane Pauley appears to be like again on the profession of singer Connie Francis, who grew to become 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” lately grew to become a viral hit on TikTok.
“Any person Someplace” star Bridget Everett
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TV: Bridget Everett on how she ended up as “Any person Someplace” | Watch Video
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 lady returning residence and dealing by 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: The Carousel of Happiness (Video)
Whereas underneath fireplace throughout the peak of the Vietnam Conflict, Marine Corporal Scott Harrison received by 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 this time, in Nederland, Colorado, his non-profit Carousel of Happiness is on a mission to unfold pleasure. Correspondent Steve Hartman reviews.
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Kathy Bates with Ben Mankiewicz on the set of the TV collection “Matlock.”
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TV: What shocked “Matlock” star Kathy Bates? (Video)
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 roles, from “Distress” to “Matlock,” realized a startling truth about her relationship together with her mom the evening 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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Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, February 13, 2025.
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MUSIC: Conductor Herbert Blomstedt, a person who has cheated time (Video)
Herbert Blomstedt continues to be conducting main symphony orchestras all over the world 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 reside as much as.”
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COMMENTARY: Former Obama speechwriter David Litt on discovering impartial floor | Watch Video
“Widespread floor” could also be more and more troublesome to search out in a time when every little thing 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 targeted on one thing aside from our variations. Browsing, he discovered, is an efficient choice.
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The E book Report: Washington Submit critic Ron Charles (July 20)
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THE BOOK REPORT: Ron Charles on new summer time reads (July 20) | Watch Video
The Washington Submit e-book reviewer gives highlights from the season’s fiction and non-fiction releases.
E book excerpt: “The Beast within 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 Hole” by Michelle Huneven
A summer time 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 at the moment.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (YouTube Video)
Alan Bergman, a part of the songwriting group of Alan and Marilyn Bergman (who created Oscar-winning lyrics for “The Thomas Crown Affair,” “The Means 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 a great collaboration and a great marriage have in widespread.
From the archives: Martin Cruz Smith on writing mysteries
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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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Get pleasure from these basic “Sunday Morning” options about gaming, from board and tile video games, to weird new video games which may not catch on.
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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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