Benefits

Laying “eggs” can help you:

• getting started - on any blank sheet - and with almost any task
  
  
• keeping your mind working round a central topic
  
  
• finding as many as possible things related to the central topic
  
  
• exploring separately things related to sub-topics

Finally let’s look at some of the things you can avoid by “laying eggs”:

• losing your way and going off on tangents
  
  
• sitting staring at a blank piece of paper for a long time
  
  
• concentrating on a few aspects of a subject in cases where you need to think of all sorts of aspects