This is the aphorism I admire the most, as you may see many people are struggling day by day and work so hard without significant achievements, or even worse they lost in confusion about the future and life, the reason behind I would say is thanks to those critical choices they made in the crossroad of his/her life
Methods and skills are important but compare with the critical choices and direction associated decision we shall put our emphasis on the latter first, with the correct choices for your career and life then you can learn those methods and skills to solve the day to day operational issues, find and familiar with the methods and skills is time consuming but not that much urgency for most cases so you can spend your time on that knowledge, on the premises that you have made a good choice at the first and the direction is right .
Where to go shall be defined first before we ask for how to go, are you really clear for where you shall go? any mission and vision in your mind?