Am i dumb or is recursion too hard?

I am a complete beginner in programming. I just know the basics of cpp and decided to learn dsa from youtube. then went on to leetcode to solve some problems. there was a rope cutting problem using recursion which im assuming is famous and i was nowhere near solving that. i know how basics of recursion work and yet it was too hard. worse part is that it was marked as a medium level question. what do i do