How do you motivate a friend to be "more than friends?" How do you move forward from "just friends" to girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, or lover? How do you escape the "friend zone?

Who will you listen to to help you out of being in the friend zone – a guy who has ended in that same zone thrice and later figured out what’s wrong and have never been thrown into that zone again or will you learn by trial and error as I did at first while also wasting a lot of time with women who you have no chance with after you have been thrown in the friendzone by them.