What is the significance of Jane Austen's chosen title Persuasion?

In the exact same way that Austen's other titles indicate
her novels' central themes, the title Persuasion indicates that
Austen's central theme deals with Austen's perspective on a person's ability to be
persuaded. In the same way that Austen analyzes the follies and virtues of both pride
and prejudice in Pride and Prejudice and the folly of emotionalism,
or sensibility, in comparison with the virtue of rational thought, or sense, in
Sense and Sensbility, Austen also analyzes both the virtues and
vices of either being easily persuaded or being unable to be
persuaded.

Austen points out that being easily persuaded is a vice:
Anne's heart was broken when she gave in to Lady Russell's advice to not accept
Wentworth's proposal because he currently had no fortune.

Austen also
points out that refusing to be persuaded is a vice:
1)
Louisa nearly died as a consequence of her refusal to be persuaded by Wentworth when he
insisted that jumping down the stairs at Lyme was to dangerous.

2)
Even though Anne is very intelligent and has a reasonable mind, her family refuses to
listen to her advise and be persuaded by her on matters of finance.

3)
When Anne meets Captain Benwick she advises him that reading only poetry depicting
broken hearts and wretched minds may not be the safest thing for him and suggested he
begin reading "our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs
of characters of worth and suffering...[that would] rouse and fortify the mind" (Ch.
11).