You look at the board. There are five moves that all seem reasonable. You start calculating one, get three moves deep, lose the thread, start over on a different one, and eventually just play something because the clock is running. That is not a sign you are bad at chess. It is a sign you are trying to solve every position the way a chess engine does, by brute-checking everything, and a human brain was never built to do that.
This is the feeling exactly. White has a genuinely full menu here, several pawn breaks, piece maneuvers, and quiet developing moves, all reasonable, none screaming to be played. Most of a game looks like this, not like a puzzle with one right answer.
Engines search. You need to recognize.
Stockfish evaluates millions of positions a second and picks the best one. You cannot do that, and trying to approximate it, mentally listing every legal move and calculating each one out, is exactly what analysis paralysis feels like from the inside. Strong human players are not calculating more than you. They are calculating less, because they have learned to throw out most candidate moves instantly based on pattern recognition, and only deeply calculate the one or two that actually look promising.
That skill, noticing which two moves matter and ignoring the other eight, is built by seeing it modeled clearly and repeatedly, not by staring harder at more positions.
Most of a game does not need your full attention
Here is the part beginners rarely get told: in a typical game, only a handful of moves actually decided the result. The other thirty-odd moves were roughly fine no matter which reasonable option you picked. Treating every single move as equally high-stakes is exhausting and teaches you nothing, because you are spending the same mental effort on a move that didn't matter as on the one that lost you the game.
This is why Rookie's report leads with 3 key moments instead of a 40-move wall of centipawn numbers. Your biggest mistake, your best move, and the turning point, the three moments that actually decided the game, are surfaced first. Everything else is there if you want to dig in, tucked behind an expand, but it is never the first thing you have to process.
Import a game and see it for yourself: instead of forty moves shouting for equal attention, you get a short, ordered story of what actually mattered, which is a much better way to learn where your real decision points are.