As a startup Founder, I've got a very long list of issues with myself, and that's just fine.

Want to hear my list?

• I'm obsessive. I can't stop working even when I hate what I'm doing.
• I'm hell-bent on control even though I know what I do offers next to none.
• I ignore successes and play failures on an infinite loop.
• I have zero attention span; I've already forgotten the opening line of this article.

Sound familiar? Maybe awful? It used to be for me. But at some point, I stopped trying so hard to "fix" me and started asking myself, "What is it about my fucked-up-ness that I can harness for good?"

What if there isn't a fix but instead a whole new world that opens up when we embrace how messed up we are?

The False Prophet of Fix

Hundreds of t...