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Originally Posted by kennyc
Like the ol' devil on one shoulder and angel on the other. 
Maybe it's the "asking permission" that causes us to think and consider options and alternatives and thus makes the following action more likely to succeed (rather than just bulling ahead mindlessly). |
So what one needs to do is work out how to ask "correctly". Affirmation is what it is usually called.
Funny, If I decide to myself that I'll do X, I'm okay with it; but if someone else also asks me to do X - I go off the idea... Happens a lot.