"Now I get it!" says Stanley. "I can be my own person. The …

"Now I get it!" says Stanley. "I can be my own person. The dragon proved it to me! I can play the piano! Be what I want to be!"
"Precisely!" says the guide.
Again, I do not see how this epiphany is relevant to Stanley's problem. Is practicing the piano going to win him friends? Has he neglected the piano in order to please the other children? I do not see his desire to have friends and be accepted as somehow inauthentic. All that is going on is a repression of his need for friends and replacing it with pride in his piano playing.
After threatening to lose his temper again, the guide introduces the third story.
"It's one thing to know what you want but it's another to know how to get it!" he says.