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Dendrites grow through a process called synaptic firing; synaptic firing would be very similar to the firing of a spark plug. A spark plug fires by a fuel in this case gasoline coming in contact with air, a synapse fires by endorphins coming in contact with the skill causing the knowledge to go through the neuron and into your dendrites causing them to grow. Some days are harder than others to grow our dendrites because we may have encountered a situation causing stress, stress is going to create norepinephrine which would basically be like replacing the gas in our car to water which makes our synapse not fire correctly. Although just because we had encountered this stressful event does not mean that our brain is not working, it just becomes harder for us to retain the knowledge we had just learned, so the less stress you have while learning the easier it becomes to learn that skill. Our dendrites obtain the knowledge from synaptic firing because of the conductivity to the axon terminals which send the knowledge through the axon and the soma to the dendrites which will cause them to grow as we learn more about the thing stored in that