The big missing in your list is pattern recognition.

Storing patterns (synapsis pathways) is how our brain really works. Facts can be looked up as the brain is notoriously inaccurate when it comes to factual precision. It always surprised me that schools don't teach this to their pupils.

An example: all high-school physics boils down to a few basic laws from which all the other, much-used, formulas can be derived. So don't try and remember the vast array of different, often complicated and long, formulas but be lazy and only remember the key laws and the pattern of how these are combined to form them.