Lin-Manuel Miranda: It's 'No Accident' Hamilton Came To Me On Vacation

In his award-winning musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda makes the case that if Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton had taken a break from work during one particularly high-pressured summer, he could have gone onto become one of America’s greatest presidents. Instead, Hamilton refused to go on vacation with his family and made the worst decision of his life by starting  an affair. The career-killing mistake is now infamously known as one of America's first political sex scandals.   "I hadn’t slept in a week, I was weak, I was awake / You've never seen a bastard orphan more in need of a break" A lyric from "Say No To This," a song about the Treasury Secretary's affair from the Hamilton Musical. Miranda discussed the link between fatigue and poor decision-making in a livestreamed interview with The Huffington Post President and Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington and HuffPost Live host and producer Alyona Minkovski before his appearance at the Rockefeller Foundation’s "Insight Dialogues" series Thursday. He sang the praises of both sleep and the importance of taking a break -- for himself as well as for his characters. “There’s no magic pill for it. No ginger, no apple cider vinegar will substitute a good night of sleep,” said Miranda. "I do believe we make our worst decisions when we’re tired.” Huffington, who has seen the musical three times, wrote about the link between Alexander Hamilton’s ...
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