That sounds like the experience of being unpersuaded by the narrative.
The experience of being persuaded (in the ideal case) is more like seeing a completely new way of seeing things that you’d previously missed. Maybe you’d already knew all the facts, but you never put them together.
For example, let’s suppose you’re an accountant and was committed fraud to steal from the firm. Maybe you’d previously noticed them being evasive on particular topics or that some of the expenses seemed slightly more than what you’d expect, but not enough that you’d given it more than a second’s thought. All of a sudden it all clicks and you realise what the signs are pointing to. Maybe you hadn’t even considered it as a possibility. I mean, sure you knew in the abstract that accounting fraud happened, but your colleagues seemed like nice people and trustworthy. You only ever saw it as a possibility in the abstract and never as something that could actually happen in the firm you work for.
That sounds like the experience of being unpersuaded by the narrative.
The experience of being persuaded (in the ideal case) is more like seeing a completely new way of seeing things that you’d previously missed. Maybe you’d already knew all the facts, but you never put them together.
For example, let’s suppose you’re an accountant and was committed fraud to steal from the firm. Maybe you’d previously noticed them being evasive on particular topics or that some of the expenses seemed slightly more than what you’d expect, but not enough that you’d given it more than a second’s thought. All of a sudden it all clicks and you realise what the signs are pointing to. Maybe you hadn’t even considered it as a possibility. I mean, sure you knew in the abstract that accounting fraud happened, but your colleagues seemed like nice people and trustworthy. You only ever saw it as a possibility in the abstract and never as something that could actually happen in the firm you work for.