Analogy of Research

Initial Stage: You are a fish living in the deep blue ocean... You search for directions but bang into coral reefs sometimes. Your wound heals but it will not be long before you bang into another reef... Sometimes the sharks chases you but you manage to elude them somehow...

Second Stage: Someone throws a a help line down...

Third Stage: You struggled a little but managed to grab hold of the line...

Fourth Stage: And guess what... That line is freaking extending from a FISHING ROD!!!