The construal level theory suggests that four different types of psychological distance--temporal, social, spatial and hypothetical—similarly affect the way we think in terms of abstract or concrete perspectives. We simulated the four psychological distances and showed that different distances affected the participants' ignorance of opportunity costs differently. We argue that in the social and hypothetical distance simulations, motivation declined and the investment of cognitive efforts was reduced. The temporal and spatial distances, however, showed no such decline. Thus, while the higher psychological distances can create a bigger picture, the forest, the motivation to look at it varies.