How To Be a Good Winner
Written by Dave Turin • Reviewed by Laura Meyer
June 2, 2022
Being a good winner follows some of the same principles as being a good loser. No matter what happens, it’s important to keep your head in the game.
Learn from Your Successes
With any win, you want to know how to be able to repeat it. In order to do that, you’ve got to take a step back after a win and analyze how it came about. The lessons you take from your analysis can then be applied to the way you work going forward so that your hard work can take effect and evolve with every challenge you overcome.
Give Credit Where it’s Due
When you lose, you never want to pin it on one person or blame your team. In the same way, you want to spread out the credit for the win. Acknowledging your team is an important step after every win.
It may be tempting, as the leader, to say “I led this win,” but it’s far better for your team and their future successes if you take the time to say “hey team, great job, you did the hard work.”
Learn from Winning
The rule of thumb to keep in mind when it comes to winning is this: treat a win the same way you would a loss. Take a moment afterward to analyze how you got there, extract the information, and apply it to future decisions, so you can repeat the steps that got you there in the first place.
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DAVE TURIN is a civil engineer who embarked upon his pursuit for gold as part of the hit reality show GOLD RUSH and currently is the star of DAVE TURIN’S LOST MINE on Discovery Channel. Although Dave has worn many hats and operated various pieces of heavy equipment throughout ten seasons of gold mining, it was the extensive hours he spent bulldozing that acquired him the name “Dozer Dave”. Dave grew up in the foothills of the Mt. Hood wilderness in Oregon, where he cultivated a love for the outdoors while hunting and fishing. This is also where he began spearheading his family’s successful rock quarry business along with his father and three brothers. Dave has a desire to encourage young people to work hard, to resist giving up in the midst of adversity, and to be bold in trying new things. He feels the trades are a viable option for many and is a proponent of addressing the skills gap and labor shortages in that industry. Viewers of GOLD RUSH worldwide have witnessed Dave’s successes, failures, frustrations, persistence, and his ability to bounce back even stronger than before. Dave never shies away from a challenge. As a football enthusiast he has learned to tackle obstacles head on, using his experience and intelligence in the construction field to gain success. When Dave isn’t moving rocks and pursuing gold responsibly he enjoys spending time with his family and playing golf.