What makes a person a good perciever of time?

Time is a tricky thing. Frame of reference and all. I have an BA in geology and teach college geology. I have also worked in the field as a paleontologist. In these capacities, I'm used to thinking about events in terms of millions and billions of years. A broad perspective to say the least.

I also have a BA in archaeology and 8 years experience working in the field. This give me a perspective that is at most 2 million years (earliest hominids), but definitely the last 100,000 years of human existence. Itself a unique perspective on history and time. Evidence through trash left behind so to speak.

To get my dual certification in secondary science and social studies had to take enough history classes to almost qualify for a BA in History. This gives me a perspective of mankind since the advent of printing (or preserved symbols at least).

Finally, teaching Physical Science. Physics, and Chemistry for 30 years and explaining the metric system, significant digits, and the history of atomic theory, I have come to think in millionths of seconds.

Each of these disciplines pervieve and use time differently. Each rationalizes the timing of events and the passage of time within the constructs of their discipline. I'm just lucky enough to work across all of them. In a sense that makes me a time traveler. Lol