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Step-by-step explanation:
‘My Shot’ is a very important song in the musical, because it originates as Hamilton’s assertion of his own feeling that he’s got something important to contribute, even if it’s not yet evident what. This is the still point at the end of Hamilton, with Hamilton literally facing death coming towards him in the form of Burr’s bullet, and he runs through many of the lines from the show in the moments before his death. He’s worried that all he will be remembered for is the fact that Burr killed him in a duel. Burr fires at Hamilton, but Hamilton raises his pistol and shoots into the sky, literally throwing away his shot. So, I am not throwing away my shot means I will not miss the chance, which is being presented to us all, to take part in history, and is also an ironic pre-echo of Hamilton’s behaviour in the duel. Of course, Hamilton ends up being remembered for much more than being killed in a duel, whereas Burr is the one who is only remembered for having killed him. So Hamilton both did not, and did, ‘throw away [his] shot’.