Recently, the country has given financial incentives to our very own Olympic medalists as they brought glory and honor to our country. Winning Olympic medals is an incredible feat and carries a lot of prestige.

Such high prestige is not limited to the field of sports. Other fields such as the sciences, literature, and even entertainment have award-giving bodies that acknowledge people with extraordinary achievements. 

A fellow Filipino - Maria Ressa - won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Winning an award this immense is probably more prestigious than winning an Olympic medal when considering that only a few people are given this award. For someone to bring one of the greatest honors to our beloved country, it would only be proper for our government to give the Nobel Prize recipient financial incentives similar to our beloved athletes. 

If incentives are given to Nobel Prize recipients, more Filipinos will strive to attain similar feats. Considering that there are 6 categories of Nobel Prizes (physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace), this could not just be a first and last as there are many other Filipinos that are skilled and talented in the given fields. How could our researchers, writers, and others strive for academic excellence if don't even support them? Motivating them with financial incentives can bring out the ingenuity in them and can open more windows for our country to grab another Nobel Prize.