Don't conflate "positive" in this domain with any typical connotations of the word. Stoicism is certainly "positive" in the sense of what one gives to the world

Don't conflate "positive" in this domain with any typical connotations of the word. Stoicism is certainly "positive" in the sense of what one gives to the world, in relationship to what one expects to receive, because a Stoic has no expectations to receive anything from the world.