This is one of my favorite Secrets of Adulthood: Sometimes, flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

I love the humming that’s audible in this recording of Glenn Gould’s performance. For me, the “flaw” of the humming makes the music more beautiful.

What do you think — agree, disagree?

If you’re interested in this idea, it also relates to the haunting Japanese concept of wabi-sabi–-the beauty of “the imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.”