I feel I am opening a can of worms!
Someone mentioned words to the effect of:-
"You are looking for a reason to fail?--how about some positive attitude".
In other walks of life (so far in non flying related activities) too much positivism can be bad--it can brush over "real" things that need redressing. False positivism is the biggest load of rubbish out if it is false. Healthy diplomatic sceptism is cool, is it not?
Surely cynacism is healthy. It points to potential issues--and we learn from it?
Or is this a cultural divide in opinion according to where we are from?