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To the End of the World
At 75, Kurt Gassner set out alone on a 60-day journey through South America — a story about courage, curiosity and the decision to stop postponing life.
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Life is happening now.
Curiosity doesn't retire.
At 75, I travelled alone through South America. Not to prove anything. Not to escape anything. I went because curiosity was still there.
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WAGNER × KI
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I’m Kurt Gassner — author, entrepreneur, traveller and lifelong student of the mind. I have spent decades building businesses, writing books, travelling, teaching, questioning assumptions and starting again.
STOP • WAITING is not a theory for me. It is the result of a life lived with curiosity, mistakes, reinvention, risk, success, failure — and the decision not to postpone what still matters.
Life is happening now. And there is still more to discover.
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