[j_baker]

Likewise, I know people who are chaotic in every way, who don't adhere to many of the things almost everyone else considers to be the norm, who have little to no self-discipline for mundane tasks, who are non-conformist by choice, and who are often perfectly aware of these shortcomings.

You'd consider those to be shortcomings? I'd consider them to be strengths. Granted, you can take those strengths too far such that they become weaknesses. But as long as you're careful not to turn them into a Golden Hammer, I wouldn't count those as weaknesses.

[w0utert]

In some ways I can imagine they could be strengths, or at least beneficial in some situations. For example being chaotic and non-conforming sometimes you learn something you would otherwise miss out on. Most of the other things I mentioned only work against me, such as lack of discipline, not finishing stuff I started, or lack of focus and not being systematic enough and getting hugely frustrated about forgetting where I left something.

I guess like always, truth is somewhere in the middle.