How to Improve Your Chess Skills

I went from a thousand to about 1700 in like a year and a half working pretty hard but I realized when I got there like oh that was the easy part. Now it's like these incredibly deep nuanced things that I'm trying to parse out that are way harder to comprehend. chess is not good at all for me when I'm stressed because it's just a stressful game too. Some people are just like tunnel and tunnel and tunnel about improvement and the numbers which isn't constructive or helpful. You know you're going to lose games all of us are going to lost games so there's like that just realistic we're not stockfish speaking of did you take any breaks during your your plateau time