PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text?

a
Focusing on the negative emotions of failures can help you make better decisions in tasks related and unrelated to the original failed task.
b
It’s important to embrace the negative emotions that come with certain failures, as this could help you do better in the future and avoid additional failures.
c
It’s better to focus on how you can improve in the future than the negative emotions associated with a perceived failure.
d
People who avoid focusing on the negative emotions associated with failure report being happier overall, but tend not to learn from their mistakes.

B. It’s important to embrace the negative emotions that come with certain failures, as this could help you do better in the future and avoid additional failures.

Explanation:

The given question refers to the text The best way to deal with failure written by Selin Malkoc. The text tells us about how we should cope with failure - instead of not paying attention to our negative emotions caused by it, we should embrace them. This can help us do better in the future and avoid additional failures in similar tasks. This is what experiments confirmed, as well. However, this method doesn't seem to improve our performance in tasks unrelated to the task in which we had previously failed.

This is why option B is the correct one.