Study: Who are the actual influencers?

This might be encouraging to those of us living on the margins of social acceptance, outside of dogmatic beliefs both scientific or religious. We are usually frustrated and depressed because we feel outcast, alone, rejected. And unfortunately, often we don't live to see how much, if any, our fringe ideas affected the networks of our lives let alone the broader cultures in which we live. And while the following might be true for a very few of us living on the edge, for most of us we are just ignored and forgotten. 

I didn't expect that this study would elicit the above response in me. I'm was hoping for something more hopeful per the first sentence, that I might have some influence or impact in my network. But then the reality of it hit me. Anyway, perhaps the article and video will make you other outliers feel more hopeful. I know, tough after that introduction.

"To stimulate a shift in thinking, target small groups of people in the 'outer edge' or fringe of a network. [...] If you want to transmit new ways of thinking that challenge an existing set of beliefs, seek out hidden locations in the periphery and plant the seed there."