… is not about convincing yourself that things are the way you want them to be when they really aren't.
Being positive is about believing that you can change things through positive action so they actually are the way you want them to be, eventually.
You can't change something if you don't take responsibility for it. You can't take responsibility for it if you deny it happened.
Kids deny reality all the time.
"Noooo"
"I saw you do it, what do you mean no?"
"I knocked over the chair. The chair knocked over the garbage."
When adults grow out of this they decide if they have the ability to change things or not. If they decide that they can change things they become "positive" people, if they decide they can't they become "negative" people.
But people who continue to refuse to accept reality at all are just large children. Or lunatics.
