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Assuming you are a person not influenced by external incentives.
Learning ideas has better ROI than learning tools. It's easy to pick up tools as needed for work, but recognizing ideas/patterns is both a more transportable kind of knowledge and harder to acquire. Also key ideas behind computation do not have a "half-life," whereas tool/tradeschool type knowledge does.
Exactly, it's all about the concepts underlying the tool and recognizing situations when a certain tool has a better ROI than some other one at solving a problem at hand.
But, sometimes it can be hard to make a fair judgement on whether you really know something or just think that you know. So, it might definitely be useful to know a few other techniques/tools of doing the same thing in order to foolproof yourself.