Mental
What if the "pointless" project is the point?
Lin-Manuel Miranda picked up a biography of Alexander Hamilton at an airport. On vacation. For fun. No commission, no deadline, no audience waiting. He just thought: what if this guy's life was a hip-hop album? That silly vacation thought became the biggest musical of a generation.
The projects that feel like play are the ones that end up mattering the most.— Lin-Manuel Miranda
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The thinker
Composer, Lyricist, Storyteller
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, and actor, best known for creating Hamilton and In the Heights.
Based on Lin-Manuel Miranda: Pursuing What You're Curious About — Good Morning America / Interviews, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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