Dendrites - how do they affect our intelligence?

A typical human brain contains about 100 billion brain cells. So why are some of us geniuses and the rest of the people just average. Researchers have found that each neuron (brain cell) can grow up to 20,000 dendrites. It is now acknowledged that the number of connections in our brain affects our level of intelligence. People who have more dendrites and hence more possible connections between them tend to be more intelligent. That brings us to the question 'how do we grow more dendrites'? The brain is divided into two hemispheres. The left hemisphere is associated with logic, science, linguistics and is interested in the details. The right hemisphere is associated with creative activities such as art, music, song and dance, drama and is concerned with the global picture. When we perform left brain activities which most schools cater for, we find that the neural network (growth of dendrites) develops only in the left hemisphere. This is why many of us are half-brained! On the other hand we find that performing right brain activities develops the neural network in both hemispheres. We have also found that playing Chess helps to grow the neural network rapidly. So play music, sing, dance, act, solve puzzles and play chess regularly to grow more dendrites and become more intelligent!