Question

When you study scientific subjects, the feeling is one of maximum efficiency. Everything is built from the foundation to the top. Every step is reasoned out. When there is a problem, they present it in all its sharpness and then show the solution. Any delay or difficulty is only because of me and my own abilities. After studying, there is no way to present the material better than it is already presented in the book. The table is set, the meat is there, the knife is there—just stretch out your hand and touch them. All the difficulty is purely in understanding. Great geniuses sowed and plowed and harvested and threshed, and I come and eat what is already prepared.
 
But when studying Talmud, the feeling is the exact opposite. Everything is disorganized. You have to uncover the assumptions with effort. You can easily miss important points. You have to do a tremendous amount of independent work, both in creating order and structure and in understanding. In the end, the amount of insight you get from 15 hours of Talmud study is smaller by an order of magnitude than the amount of insight you can get from 15 hours of studying mathematics.
 
About the advantages that Talmud study does have, and of the conventional method, you’ve already written more than once.
I’m just asking from the standpoint of efficiency: is it only for me—or for you too—that the efficiency of studying Talmud is roughly like chopping salad with one hand, with a dull knife, in a dark room, or not?