Difference: puritans wanted to make chnages to the church of england not fully leave it but pilgrims wanted to seperate from the church of england
Similarity: seperatists and went to america to practice religious freedom in america and escape religious persecution
The answer is: <span>the assumptions we make about the world.
This principle could be translated into two different people that give two opposite response in handling a same problem. (one succesful and one catastrophic)
One people could be influenced by optimism that make him/her believe tha the problems is not going the hurt them, while the other could be influenced by negative outlook that become self-fulfilling phropecy of his/her failure)</span>