The best thing we can do is have people of many different flavors of the spectrum. We should have people around us that are good friends, acquaintances, annoying people and everything in between. If we can spend time with people of all walks of life where we agree with them at times, disagree with them in others then we are in a good spot. This notion of an echo chamber is disturbing. We shouldn't be exposed to people with only specific beliefs because that doesn't allow us to evaluate and reconsider things or reaffirm something if we are exposed to information that may be to the contrary. It's like cooking, we need lots of different flavors!
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This is a piece of wisdom that many don't really want to think about. We'd be more inclined to go with groups that we can say yes to and expect they'll say yes to us back. This is rooted from our need to belong and survival in groups. Conform or get casted out by the tribe to fend for yourself in the wild. Naturally, group thinking has its own hazards of being an echo chamber but I'm not really the one that needs convincing that people need to reflect on their ways of interacting with their social circle. Go where there is friction to test one's beliefs I say.