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I believe the entire list is important to how we think about reaching.   There are ways that all of this information can inform the way we teach.  Specifically,  we need to teach in an experiential manner that honors our students as individual explorers who are in the process of constructing their own stories.  But to me the most interesting part of the story is helping people become aware of their own brain.

I believe that if we give students a sense of how their brain works we help them become better at authoring their own story. In that regard the three most important things on the list to me are:

1. The brain consists of a cognitive unconscious and an I-function/story teller
2. Perception, self, and memory are all stories, subject to revision based on new observations
3. The brain uses conflicts between itself and the world, between the cognitive unconscious and the I-functions/story teller, and between different people to learn by generating new candidate stories